On November 3, Friends of the Earth (FoE) responded to the Company Law Reform Bill, tabled in the House of Lords the previous day, by accusing the government of putting the interests of big business before those of people and the environment. FoE,
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Sue Bull, Geelong
Nobody in Geelong can remember a rally that was bigger than the one on November 15. The unions estimate that up to 30,000 people rallied — that's one in seven Geelong residents.
Every building worker and metalworker was there,
The Venezuelan-owned and US-based fuel refiner and distributor Citgo will begin distributing discounted heating oil to poor US communities next week. Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's minister of energy and petroleum, made the announcement yesterday,
Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic PastBy Ray RaphaelThe New Press, 2005354 pages, $51 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Paul Revere must be the most important person in the history of the United States. His midnight ride from Boston in
Dale Mills
The charges against the terrorist suspects have nothing to do with the terror legislation that was rushed through parliament on November 3. Rather, the legislation gives the police greater scope to lay charges.
According to the
Sarah Stephen
Addressing a Queensland state council meeting of the Liberal Party on November 12, PM John Howard said: "It is the responsibility, particularly of the leaders of the Islamic community, to ensure as best they can, with our cooperation,
SYDNEY — NSW Police has had to introduce new methods to control their officers during high-speed car chases, according to the November 11 Sydney Morning Herald.
An investigation by the newspaper found that 62 people have died since 1994 as a
Zoe Kenny
Young people joined the November 15 national day of action against the industrial relations laws determined to not only lampoon PM John Howard, but also highlight that young workers will suffer under these laws. The socialist youth
On November 28, 1820, Frederick Engels was born in Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal, Germany). The young Karl Marx's interest in political economy was sparked by reading Engels' 1843 work Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy. Engels and Marx
Karen Fletcher, Melbourne
Five cramped busloads of workers from the Ford factory at Broadmeadows were among the quarter of a million people who flooded inner-city Melbourne on November 15 to rally against the federal government's radical attack on
Resistance Art in Canada has dedicated its 2006 calendar to the memory of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994), the pioneer Palestinian artist, novelist, poet and critic. The calendar includes 12 artworks by Palestinian artists from different corners of
Leslie Richmond, Adelaide
On November 17, protesters rallied against the visit to Adelaide of US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who arrived to attend the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN).
The AUSMIN talks, at
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