The most popular leader among the Arab population in the Middle East, the May 20 Christian Science Monitor said, isn鈥檛 even from the region: it is Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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NEWCASTLE 聴 The NSW ALP and property developers are yet again pushing to cut the Newcastle train line, this time proposing rail services end at Wickham and be replaced by buses.
In a time of climate crisis, logic dictates we should be cutting carbon pollution and ending our reliance on burning coal for energy. Yet the opposite is happening in Australia.
聯This book is part of the red armband view of Australian history聰, Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen told an audience at Brisbane聮s Paddington Workers Club at the May 28 launch of his new book, Framework of Flesh: Builders聮 Labourers Battle for Health and Safety.
Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the 鈥渟ocialist transformation of basic industry鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: 鈥淚 can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.鈥
BRISBANE鈥 Unions at the University of Queensland (UQ) held a rally and barbeque on St Lucia campus on May 27 as part of their campaign for a new collective agreement.
The threat of climate change means that for the first time humanity is faced with the very real possibility of extinction. The root cause of the ecological crisis is capitalism鈥檚 drive to maximise immediate profits above all else.
Carbon footprints, melting icecaps and ecological disasters 鈥 the hot-button issue of the century is explored in a series of films that focus on sustainability at the Sydney Film Festival.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the nationalisation of six companies on May 21. 鈥淭here will be no discussion鈥, he said.
The federal Labor government wants to introduce its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), otherwise known as the emissions trading scheme, in July 2011.
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.
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.
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