The Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecution聮s (CDPP) formal withdrawal of charges against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) official Noel Washington on November 28 is a major victory for all workers and unionists.
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Thirsty Country: Options for Australia
By Asa Wahlquist
Jacana Books, 2008
216 pages, $27.95
By Asa Wahlquist
Jacana Books, 2008
216 pages, $27.95
Supporters and opponents of Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution have come out with differing assessments post the November 23 regional elections, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had defined as the most important electoral contest yet for the process of change.
The below article is abridged from a speech given by Mano Navaratnam from the Tamil Ealam Women聮s Organisation (TEWO) at an October 30 Melbourne film screening of My Daughter the Terrorist, organised with the Socialist Alliance. The Tamil people, whose homeland is in the north and east of Sri Lanka, have been waging a long struggle for national self-determination against the Sri Lankan state.
Australian fans of quality, progressive music are in for a real treat this summer with the joint tour by left-wing songwriters Alistair Hulett from Scotland and David Rovics from the US.
The current global economic crisis has all the earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists now openly employ phrases like 鈥渟ystemic meltdown鈥 and 鈥減eering into the abyss鈥.
Having captured the imagination of progressives across the globe with scenes of indigenous uprisings confronting right-wing governments and multinationals, Bolivia has become a key focus point of discussion within the left regarding strategies for change.
IN 1969, that Ulster gutter preacher
Ian Paisley
himself
with his Yankee doctorate from Bob Jones U,
unsmiling,
with
his dirty money salted away,
with
his imperial law
and his gunmen in the shadows
called
Dr Fernando Martirena from the Centre of Investigation in Structures and Materials (CIDEM) research institute at the University of Santa Clara, Cuba, recently visited Australia to speak to a number of meetings organised by the Australian Green Development Forum.
The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), formed only in 1996, shocked Malaysia聮s political establishment by winning two seats in the March 8 general elections. Nasir Hashim was elected to the Selangor state legislative assembly and Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj was elected to the national parliament.
Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Granta, 2008
224 pages, $26.95
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Granta, 2008
224 pages, $26.95
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