鈥淚鈥檓 a huge supporter of the civil society and the internet is the Wild West at the moment鈥, federal communications minister Stephen Conroy told SBS鈥檚 Insight on March 31. Conroy and the Labor Party remain determined to fence the internet in, joining a short list of countries that attempt to censor it.
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Workers and the community will march on May Day this year under the banner 鈥淧ut jobs before profits鈥.
As capitalism sinks into a growing crisis of war and economic meltdown, people around the world are waking up to the fact that something is drastically wrong with the system that is throwing millions into poverty, wrecking our climate and turning entire countries into battlefields.
The Group of 20 meeting of leaders of the world聮s biggest economic powers was marked for failure even before it began on April 1.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez argued on March 27 that the economic measures his government has adopted, to confront the global economic crisis, contain 鈥渘ot one neoliberal element鈥, unlike those adopted by the previous governments.
The article below is by Brian Senewiratne, who is from Sri Lanka聮s Sinhalese ethnic majority and a long-time Tamil rights activist. For his uncompromising stance against the long-term oppression, and current brutal military offensive, against the Sri Lanka聮s Tamil minority by the Sinhalese chauvinist regime, he was recently barred from entering Malaysia and was singled out and victimised by Canadian and Australian immigration officials.
Teachers鈥 salaries in Venezuela have increased 550% since 1999, education minister Hector Navarra said on March 23, according to the March 24 Diario Vea.
According to a 2008 report by UN agencies UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation, an estimated 1.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2007, bringing the number of people living with HIV in the region to 22 million.
The article below is by Salim Vally, a leading member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee in South Africa and a veteran anti-apartheid activist. A longer version is posted at . Vally will be a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads conference, in Sydney, April 10-12. For more information, or to register, visit .
A new left alliance has formed in Britain to stand in the European Union elections set for June 4.
鈥淭he trouble makers are out in force again鈥, George Monbiot wrote on April 1 in the Guardian Online.
It has become common practice for many bosses to tell potential employees they must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) to secure a job.
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