Socialist Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn looks set to win the party鈥檚 leadership in the coming weeks 鈥 sending shock waves through the British establishment.
He has generated huge enthusiasm among young people with his ultra-radical concepts like 鈥渕aybe don't start pointless wars so poor people die for economic elites鈥 and 鈥渓et鈥檚 ensure we can all access health care and basic services鈥.
But surely Corbyn is cheating. The whole concept of 鈥渄emocracy鈥 seems rigged in his favour due to his dangerous approach of advocating policies that are actually in the interests of the majority.
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The federal government鈥檚 anti-union agenda, on behalf of the Australian ruling class, has been further frustrated following its failure to ensure two key pieces of legislation pass the Senate.
On August 17, the Senate defeated a bill that would have reintroduced the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) along with its coercive powers and weakened protections for unions.
Australian condom and rubber glove maker Ansell is engaged in some aggressive union busting in Sri Lanka. It has sacked about 300 poor mainly women workers who are fighting for the right to strike in one of Sri Lanka's so called Free Trade Zones.
Workers gathered outside Ansell鈥檚 Melbourne headquarters on August 25 to demand Ansell reinstate the sacked workers and recognise workers' right to organise.
Sri Lankan unionist Anton Marcus, who addressed the rally in defence of the sacked workers, said the workers had wanted nothing more than the right to negotiate through their union.
Early this year supporters of 麻豆传媒 Weekly in Melbourne decided to relaunch the 麻豆传媒 Radio show on community radio 3CR. This was after urging from station management and 麻豆传媒 supporters volunteering at the station.
The 麻豆传媒 Radio program previously aired on 3CR between the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
More than 800 workers gathered in Bicentennial Park on August 23 to protest against the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement in a rally organised by the Electrical Trades Union (ETU).
ETU National Secretary Allen Hicks told the crowd Chinese companies need invest only 15% in a project worth at least $150 million to be able to bring in workers from overseas who are not subject to labour market testing.
For as little as $22.5 million, a Chinese investor in a joint venture with an Australian company can avoid paying Australian wages and conditions.
BREAKING NEWS: Aunty Jenny Munro announced on August 31 that the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy had forced the hand of the Aboriginal Housing Company to sign a commitment to guarantee that housing for Aboriginal families will be built as a part of the redevelopment of The Block. The signing is due for September 1, 2015.
The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy released this statement on August 27.
The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) has claimed an important victory in its fight for Aboriginal housing on the Block, ahead of a Supreme Court decision today on a timeline for forced eviction of the Embassy camp.
On August 13, anti-marriage equality campaigner and Liberal government minister Senator Eric Abetz was presented with a petition against marriage equality 鈥 the "Uluru bark petition" 鈥 by Black pastor Peter Walker, who claimed to speak on behalf of "Aboriginal Australia".
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 ROBIN MAYO caught up with MICH-ELLE MYERS on August 23, a family day at Port Botany in support of the workers sacked by Hutchinson Ports. Myers is a national officer for the Maritime Union of Australia.
Why is the Hutchison dispute so important?
The Hutchison dispute is important because it is waking the community up about why we need to get rid of the Abbott government. It helps the community realise how anti-worker this government is. It thinks it鈥檚 OK for people to be sacked by SMS and email in the middle of the night.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, the federal government does not believe that climate change is real. The Climate Council recommended a reduction of 45% to 65% of Australia鈥檚 2005 carbon emission levels as the minimum that would be required to prevent runaway climate change.
After his resounding success in the immigration portfolio 鈥 in which international treaty obligations were trashed, human rights trammelled, and asylum seekers fleeing from persecution were greeted with perverse punishment 鈥 Scott Morrison was promoted to minister for social services where he wasted no time attacking the unemployed, the disabled and aged pensioners.
It seemed impossible to go any lower. But if anyone was going to manage it, it was the minister whose arrogance is outweighed only by his ambition to be prime minister.
Now it is expectant mothers he is trying to vilify.
Seventy years ago, two split second explosions changed the course of history. The blinding light and fireballs that scorched Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the start of the atomic age. More than 200,000 people died either instantly or within a couple of months. Thousands more have died in the years since due to the radiological impacts of the bombs.
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