Dick Nichols is a national co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance. This article is based on a talk to the April World at a Crossroads conference.
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After the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which waged an armed struggle for independence for Sri Lanka鈥檚 Tamil minority, the extent of the killings of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan army (SLA) has begun to emerge.
Abdul Hekmat, a Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, doesn鈥檛 believe that the US-NATO invasion and occupation of his country amounts to a 鈥済ood鈥 war, and is troubled by the prospect of the Taliban seizing more power.
We all know about the government and big business聮s so-called 聯solutions聰 to the climate change crisis: 聯clean聰 coal, carbon trading schemes, etc. But what are some real world solutions to the climate crisis and what real action is being taken?
About 350,000 Queensland workers plan to fight Labor Premier Anna Bligh鈥檚 plans for massive privatisations. Unions have warned of widespread industrial action, including strikes.
In a call for action to stop the humanitarian crisis facing hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians, a group of young Tamil Australians have initiated the statement below. Published at , they are calling for as many people as possible to add their name.
Local residents held a rally on May 23 to stop trucks entering the Tullamarine toxic dump site in Melbourne鈥檚 west. Two days later they picketed to again stop trucks from entering the landfill site.
In 2000, the small Pacific island nation Tuvalu made a formal request to Australia to accept its people if they were forced to evacuate because of global warming-induced sea level rises.
The Australian government and coal industry鈥檚 push for so-called 鈥渃lean coal鈥 technology is justified on the grounds that if we can keep burning and selling coal, but in a 鈥渟ustainable鈥 way, many Australian jobs will be saved. This is pure propaganda.
Pakistan鈥檚 workers and peasants continue to be caught between the brutal military conflict waged between the Pakistani military, backed by the US, and the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban.
On its opening day, Israeli soldiers walked past piles of books for sale and commemorative PalFest鈥09 tote bags into the Palestine National Theatre in Jerusalem to tell the owner that the Palestine Festival of Literature was an event organised by the Palestinian Authority and therefore illegal.
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