The only hope for stopping climate change is the political movement fostered by the recent Climate Action Summit and the groups forming all over the country, according to author Clive Hamilton at a February 25 meeting at the University of Western Australia.
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Government has a responsibility to restore full employment by making an 鈥渦nconditional job offer鈥 at a liveable minimum wage to all who want to work.
In a speech to military troops at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on February 27, US President Barack Obama announced that most of the 142,000 US soldiers in Iraq will be withdrawn by August 2010, leaving behind a 鈥渞esidual force鈥 of 50,000 troops.
After seven-and-a-half years of unjust imprisonment, on February 16, the brothers Hector and Antonio Cerezo were released.
Inspired by the January 31-February 3 national Climate Action Summit in Canberra, on February 21 WA activists formed the Coalition for a Safe Climate.
Since the intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities began in 2007, Aboriginal people have been subjected to a national spotlight that has demonised the men and rendered the women virtually powerless.
Kavita Krishnan is a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) and an editor of the Marxist magazine Liberation. Krishnan will be a keynote speaker at the World At A Crossroads conference in Sydney, April 10-12. Visit .
Cuba is struggling to exit the 鈥淪pecial Period鈥 鈥 as the period of economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main trading partner, in the early 1990s is known 鈥 and the trade union movement is helping to chart the way forward, a leading Cuban unionist told 91自拍论坛 Weekly in December.
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has been blockading the site of the new children聮s hospital construction project in Parkville. The blockade is a response to the sacking of Joe Angelino, a shop steward who is also a health and safety representative.
Do you think this headline is too harsh? Do we still need to give these politicians time to act the way many hoped they would?
The Israeli apartheid state, seemingly unconcerned by worldwide outrage and condemnation of its latest attacks on Gaza, has set about extending its domination over the occupied territories.
Most media commentary, for and against the process of change and deep-going transformation that the government of President Hugo Chavez is leading, focuses on Venezuela鈥檚 cities.
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