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Concert forZimbabwe

Love War & Peace
Featuring the Sydney Soloists
September 1, 7pm, Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets $25
Bookings or (02) 8256 2223

New music from David Bridie

Succumb
Music by David Bridie
Liberation Music
11 tracks, $26.99

Climate change: the case for immediate action

Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency action
By David Spratt & Philip Sutton
Scribe Publications, 2008
320 pages, $27.95

Africa forced to clean up after a party it didn't go to

“We are the creditors!” insist a new layer of African social activists, victimised by the ongoing Third World debt crisis but now gathered to fight back.

Venezuela: Unemployment drops, growth continues

Unemployment in Venezuela dropped from 8.8% in July 2007 to 7.2% in July 2008, the National Statistics Institute (INE) announced on August 14.

Public servants reject below-inflation pay offer

In a move eerily reminiscent of the lousy pay offers this year to NSW and Victorian public sector workers, the Queensland Labor government has offered staff at the Department of Main Roads a 3.25% per year increase for the three years of their current enterprise agreement. The offer is significantly below the official inflation rate in Brisbane of 5.1%, the highest of any capital city in Australia.

South African social justice research centre defies attack

DurbanÂ’s University of KwaZulu-Natal vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba is expected to deliver an edict that the UKZNÂ’s Centre for Civil Society (CCS) will close on December 31.

Ireland: Police know loyalist guns' location

The admission by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that it knows the location of loyalist paramilitary weapons dumps, is no surprise considering the involvement of police in the six counties that make up Northern Ireland with loyalist killer gangs over the years, according to Sinn FeinÂ’s Alex Maskey.

Pakistan: Dictator gone, but not his policies

Thousands across Pakistan celebrated the humiliating departure of dictator Pervez Musharraf on August 18.

Remembrance Day to be marked by arms fair

November 11 is Remembrance Day, marked each year to commemorate those who have died in war.

NSW community housing tenants pay for cuts

Low-income tenants in community housing will face greater hardship following a recent NSW government policy decision that means tenants will lose their rent assistance.

Bonded labour? Pacific 'guest worker' scheme

This month the federal Labor government announced a pilot seasonal worker scheme in the horticulture industry. Under the trial, up to 2500 visas will be available over three years for workers from Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to work in Australia for up to seven out of any 12 months. Swan Hill in Victoria and Griffith in NSW, among other horticultural districts, are being considered for the pilot.