Socialist councillor Sam Wainwright has called on Fremantle residents to support a March 11 rally against the state governmentβs attacks on the public sector.
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The December 7-18 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen was supposed to βseal a global dealβ to tackle climate change. It failed miserably.
On February 1, NSW premier Kristina Keneally announced changes to public transport fares and ticketing at a Parramatta railway station press conference.
After holding power in Chile since the end of Pinochetβs military dictatorship in 1988, the social democratic coalition Concertacion lost power to the right wing Alianza coalition in the December and January elections.
The statement published below has been signed by the Working Peopleβs Association (Indonesia); Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance; the Singapore Democratic Party; the Socialist Party of Malaysia; Socialist Alternative (Australia); Socialist Alliance (Australia); and Socialist Worker New Zealand. If your organisation wants to sign this joint statement, email international@prp-indonesia.org.
Dwarfing recent opposition protests, more than 100,000 supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched in Caracas on February 4 in defence of the government and to celebrate 18 years since Chavez led a failed civilian-military uprising against a corrupt government in 1992.
United States President β and Nobel Peace Laureate β Barack Obama will spend nearly US$1 trillion on war this year.
US National Director of Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair presented the βannual threat assessmentβ before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 2
How to sum up the Liberal Partyβs βdirect actionβ scheme to tackle global warming? Well, how about: a fraud wrapped in demagogy inside a delusion?
Wiki Government: How Technology can make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, & Citizens more PowerfulBy Beth Noveck, Brookings Institute Press200 pp, US$28.95
A Nielsen poll published in the February 8 Sydney Morning Herald showed a sharp drop of support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key climate change policy, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
In a hot, leaky, corrugated tin shed behind Redfernβs disused railway yards lie the embers of a smouldering story of injustice. As an Aboriginal artist, 69 year-old Gordon Syron knows about injustice. He's seen systemic apartheid, legal bias and abuse of Aboriginal people all his life.
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