On June 2, 1975, sex workers in Lyon, France, occupied a church for two months, an action that inspired the contemporary sex-worker rights movement. On June 2 this year, 60 sex workers and supporters held a demonstration at Circular Quay to protest against the NSW parliament聮s passage of the Brothels Legislation Amendment Act. Protesters described the legislation as a significant 聯reversal of decriminalisation聰.
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Organising is well under way for protests during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney in September, to which PM John Howard will be welcoming his war criminal mate, US President George Bush.
This is an abridged version of a motion adopted by the national leadership of France聮s Revolutionary Communist League (LCR).
The July 1 Sydney Morning Herald reported that the 鈥渟outhern part of the Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new irrigation year begins on Sunday鈥 Howard鈥檚 grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July 1 in Australia鈥檚 food bowl has been realised, with soaring fruit and vegetable prices expected to follow.鈥
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as France聮s president in April and the landslide to the conservatives in the first round of the parliamentary elections on June 10, described in France as the 聯blue wave聰, were widely presented in the Australian capitalist media as a dramatic shift to the right in French political life. They are all too keen to wipe out last year聮s images of French workers and students successfully resisting anti-worker laws, something they only grudgingly reported on in the first place.
The Socialist Alliance is aiming for a 60% overall emissions reduction, including 95% power station emissions reduction, by 2020 and a 90% overall emissions reduction by 2030. Immediate comprehensive planning is required, including the setting of annual targets, to meet these overall targets on time or sooner.
The revolutionary student movement in Venezuela is divided into countless tiny organisations, often with bases in just one faculty or one campus. One of these organisations, the Popular Revolutionary Movement of Fire (MPR Fogata), in a statement issued in June called for 聯the revolutionary student movement of Venezuela to strengthen the forces in favour of unity聰. The statement argued: 聯Now we are presented with the possibility of deepening these forces and gradually making that [unity] a reality.聰
The French presidential and parliamentary elections produced very contradictory results for the broadly defined radical left. Its collective vote of a little less than 9% in the presidential poll, while large compared to other industrialised countries, was down from 15% in 2002. However the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) bucked the trend and cemented its position as the most credible voice of the anti-capitalist left.
The July 1 Sydney Morning Herald reported that the 聯southern part of the Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new irrigation year begins on Sunday聟 Howard聮s grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July 1 in Australia聮s food bowl has been realised, with soaring fruit and vegetable prices expected to follow.聰
Internationally known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on the night of July 15 in her Durban home at age 55. She was suffering her second bout of cancer, and chemotherapy had evacuated her beautiful long hair.
Acting from the Heart: Australian advocates for asylum seekers tell their stories
Edited by Sarah Mares & Louise Newman
Finch Publishing, 2007
256 pages, $24.95
Edited by Sarah Mares & Louise Newman
Finch Publishing, 2007
256 pages, $24.95
On July 18, Ford Australia president Tom Gorman announced that Ford's Geelong engine plant would close in 2010, putting 600 workers out of work. Geelong Trades Hall Council's Union Air radio show interviewed Australian Manufacturing Workers Union vehicle division delegate plant Tony Anderson.
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