More than 1000 electricity workers, employed by Energex, Ergon Energy and Powerlink, marched through the city on May 14 in an escalation of the combined power unions聮 campaign for improved pay and conditions from the three state government-owned corporations.
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The Residents聮 Action Movement has been growing rapidly in the last month (with around 100-300 people joining per week) as a result of the popularity of their key campaign 聴 to remove the 12.5% goods and services tax on food.
鈥淔irst World countries are the leaders in carbon emissions, and it is the Third World who faces the consequences鈥, Bangladeshi Professor Anu Muhammad told a crowd of 50 at public forum on May 14. 鈥淎 one-metre rise in sea level would displace 40 million people and would submerge 30% of our country.鈥
While we heralded the end of the Howard regime, those of us involved in the many campaigns for social and environmental justice knew the fight had not ended with his demise. We knew the struggle for real and lasting justice would go on, and this is why it is important that we stay inspired and active.
Karl Marx, born nearly two centuries ago, had in 1867 (in the first volume of Capital) laid bare the 鈥渋ntimate connection between the pangs of hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which capitalist accumulation is the basis鈥.
A new period of uncertainty has opened in Bolivia with the initiation of recall referendums for the president and prefects of Bolivia聮s nine departments by the opposition-controlled Senate.
A casual glance at the ALP聮s federal budget would have you believe that there will be a net loss of 1224 public sector jobs over the next financial year. That figure, derived from an actual cut of 5061 jobs, balanced by 3837 new jobs, belies what will happen.
Five months into its term the Rudd government delivered on one of its pre-election promises and ended the Temporary Protection Visa program. The TPV program was hatched by the ultra-racist Pauline Hanson and introduced by the Howard government in 1999. It placed successful asylum seekers on three year temporary visas, having to endure the horror of being reviewed and possibly deported after three years.
Public school teachers committed to keeping a state-wide centralised model of staffing that guarantees teachers鈥 transfer rights and delivers equity for students and school communities voted on April 8 for a 24-hour strike on May 22.
A May 13 statement from the Zimbabwe International Socialist Organisation (ISO) condemned 聯the arrest and detention of Zimbabwe congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Lovemore Matombo and Secretary General Wellington Chibhebhe on the 8th of May聰.
聯Today Israel celebrates its 60th birthday. Today is anything but a celebration for Palestinians. For them it is the 60th anniversary of The Catastrophe (Al Nakba, in Arabic)聰, Fay Waddington from the Queensland Palestinian Solidarity Campaign told a speak-out on May 15. The speak-out was organised by the QPSC, Fair Go for Palestine and the Stop the War Collective.
Israel聮s 60th birthday caused quite a stir in Leichhardt (Sydney). To mark the 60th anniversary of what Palestinians call al Nakba (the catastrophe), on May 8 the Leichhardt Public Library allowed a local peace activist group to install Hebron and al Nakba.
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