As the Australian economy begins its 鈥渞ecovery鈥, economic and social indicators show the recession has disproportionately affected working people and the poor. The rich are just getting richer.
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German elections and the strength of the left Duroyan Fertl's analysis of German elections (GLW #809) missed two issues. Firstly, election results for the Green Party (Thuringia: 6.2%, Saarland: 5.9%, Saxony: 6.4%). The Greens have established themselves around the 6%-mark crossing the 5% hurdle that guarantees seats in parliament.
In 麻豆传媒 Weekly #811, we said that the renewable energy company Solar Systems had collapsed 鈥渄ue to its major investor, TRUenergy, withdrawing its investment鈥. TRUenergy wrote to us to point out that this statement was wrong.
With seven boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted in September, Australia鈥檚 Christmas Island detention centre is fast filling up. It now holds 677 detainees.
Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, was an important contributor to Marxist theory with his idea of 鈥渉egemony鈥.
鈥淔ifteen families have dominated Honduras for decades, and they are the ones that carried out the coup. Today we face a very bloody time鈥, Honduran activist Santiago Reyes told a 40-strong forum on independence organised by the Latin American Social Forum on September 19.
鈥淭he country is weary of the war. What I鈥檓 trying to do at this point is to make sure that ... we have got a coherent strategy that can work鈥, United States President Barack Obama told David Letterman鈥檚 Late Show on September 21.
In Hitler's Priests, Kevin Spicer meticulously shows at least 180 Catholic priests actively supported the Nazis, including spying on other clergymen for the fascists. Beyond them, there was a vast network of sympathetic priests and bishops who quietly supported the Reich.
Australia has one of the highest rates of asbestos-related disease in the world. Asbestos kills and goes on killing for generations. The Australian Council of Trade Unions estimates that by 2020, 30,000 to 40,000 people in Australia will have contracted an asbestos-related cancer.
It鈥檚 official: young people in Australia have rejected the Rudd government鈥檚 weak policies on climate change. These are the findings from YOUth Decide, an event organised by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) at the end of September.
A rally of 150 people, mainly students, marked the anniversary of the massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982 on September 25. The event was organised by the cross-campus Students for Palestine group. The protest spilled into a march and covered a few city blocks.
Following the bigger-than-expected turn-out across Australia for the August 1 national day of action for marriage equality, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) activist groups are gearing up for a big year in 2010.
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