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Since beginning its first parliamentary term with the symbolic apology to the Stolen Generations, the Rudd Labor government has promised a shift away from the hostility towards Indigenous Australians shown by the previous Howard government.
In the May 1 local council elections in England and Wales, the ruling Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suffered its worst election defeat in 40 years.
Twenty thugs brutally attacked the offices of Political Committee of the Poor 鈥 FPRM-PRD in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan on May 17 while activists were present. Police and intelligence agents, who had the offices under surveillance, were seen to
Carlos Caceres (Write On #750) observes that a doubling of renewable energy capacity worldwide would only result in a 0.29% reduction in global emissions, and insinuates a reduction of this scale would be "inconsequential". No shit, Sherlock. Why do
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.
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.
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