As the economic crisis continues to worsen, with capitalism unable to stop the spiral towards a global depression that will plunge millions into poverty, women will experience the negative consequences more rapidly and with more severity.
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A necessary part of life
new life wakes me: a tiny sun
with roots I must water daily
encouraging them
to plan their own attack upon discord.
Poor little bread of solidarity,
banner against the cold, fresh water for all the
A number of Climate Action Groups (CAGs) in NSW held a series of actions at federal MP offices on March 27.
Labor governments at state and federal levels are persisting with two unpopular proposals for education in remote Aboriginal schools 鈥 the scrapping of bilingual education and the linking of welfare payments to school attendance 鈥 despite opposition from communities and educators.
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
Monthly Review Press, 2009
160 pages, $25
Available from
By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
Monthly Review Press, 2009
160 pages, $25
Available from
If Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice were to suddenly come to life in Australia today, there鈥檚 one place she find familiar 鈥 the Wonderland world of industrial relations minister Julia Gillard鈥檚 Fair Work Act (FWA).
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed at the conclusion of the London G20 summit: 鈥淲e have resolved that from today we will together manage the process of globalisation 鈥 We have agreed that in doing so we will build a more sustainable and more open and fairer global society.鈥
The struggle against the privatisation schemes of the NSW government is beginning to revive. On April 2, an angry demonstration of prison officers besieged parliament house, protesting against prison privatisation plans.
Leader of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwea and former MP for Highfield in Harare, Munya Gwisai, along with two representatives of the external relations committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Le Vinh Thu and Le Gia Kien, are the latest additions to the growing international speaker line-up at the World at a Crossroads conference.
This article is based on a speech given by Jay Nathan, a young Tamil activist, at a rally protesting the Sri Lankan genocide against the people of Tamil Eelam, in Sydney on March 28.
The federal government is hoping those who receive their $900 聯stimulus package聰 payment from April 6 spend and spend big.
In 2005, anti-dredging campaign group Blue Wedges joined Somali pirates, Peruvian raiders and Gulf terrorists on the US Office of Naval Intelligence聮s international threat list as a credible threat to international shipping.
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