鈥淧oor Human Nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from King to policeman, from the flathead parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and the weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?鈥 鈥 Emma Goldman
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On November 22, Hands off Venezuela (HoV) held its fourth national conference at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
On February 3, the first sitting day of federal parliament in 2009, thousands of climate protesters will encircle Parliament House, peacefully demanding the government take real action on climate change to ensure a safe climate future.
The following article is based on a speech given at the November 20 Transgender Day of Remembrance in Canberra.
鈥淲orld at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century鈥 is a four-day conference to be held in Sydney on April 10-13 (the Easter long weekend) next year.
There is no room for any doubt that Australia is suffering from an epidemic of domestic violence.
On November 24, around 600 pensioners atttended a mass meeting called by the Fair Go for Pensioners (FGP) campaign at Melbourne Town Hall.
Speaking during the swearing in of the newly elected PSUV governor of Aragua, Rafael Isea, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered a full investigation into the killing of three trade union leaders in the state and threatened to nationalise any companies which violate workers鈥 rights.
Below are two statements on the situation in Zimbabwe. The first is by the Zimbabwe Social Forum and the second by the Zimbabwe International Socialist Organisation, which is also part of the ZSF.
Almost 2000 Victorian TAFE teachers voted on November 25 to continue their industrial campaign for a new enterprise agreement, which will include a further stop-work meeting in February 2009. Teachers from regional centres were joined at the meeting by metropolitan TAFE colleagues.
It鈥檚 not often we hear the rich talk honestly about the poor in public. We can only guess what goes on behind closed doors, but out in the open CEOs are supposed to stick to their PR script 鈥 squeaky clean and politically correct. Well, thanks to billionaire Gerry Harvey we don鈥檛 have to guess anymore.
While governments worldwide push neoliberal policies including 聯free聰 markets, 聯free聰 trade (and lately 聯free聰 trillion dollar pay-outs to prop up businesses), new legislation from the Australian federal government indicates it does not want such freedoms for the population when it comes to what they may view on the internet.
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