Nothing like the inferno that swept across Victoria last weekend has ever occurred in Australia before.
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Palestine solidarity activists in Sydney have launched a campaign targeting Max Brenner Chocolates, a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, as part of the growing international boycott Israel movement.
Like all people across Australia, Socialist Alliance members have been devastated by the Victorian bushfire tragedy, the greatest disaster in peace-time Australian history.
The unfolding Latin American revolution and the call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build βsocialism of the 21st centuryβ will be big features of the βWorld at a Crossroadsβ conference to be held in Sydney over the Easter weekend.
Mike Crook says he became radicalised by seeing the way construction and mining companies treated their workforce, especially in regard to on-the-job safety.
In a 7000-word essay published in the February Monthly magazine
The statement below is abridged from an online petition calling for justice in the case Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, murdered 20 years ago by a death squad with links to the British state.
This column is usually devoted to an appeal for the Green left Weekly fighting fund but this week this space will be used to join in with the many trade unions, other groups and individuals who are rising in a huge display of solidarity to help the communities devastated by the unprecedented bushfires in Victoria.
New opportunities for socialists
The capitalist media are constantly conveying the message of doom and gloom.
Their reason is to instill fear into the workforce so as to try to prevent attempts by the trade unions to secure wage increases, and
On the weekend of February 7-8, over 600 delegates and as many observers attended the founding conference of Franceβs New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), held at la Plaine-Saint-Denis in the working class suburbs to the north of Paris.
The move to the right by the Socialist Party (PS), which drew the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Greens along in its wake, has been so clearly against the wishes of the support base of these parties that a significant vacuum in French politics has opened up to the left.
The longest strike in Anglo-Canadian history, at Torontoβs York University, has been suppressed by anti-union, legislation after a three-month long picket line.
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