The shooting of two Aboriginal boys in Townsville on November 25 shows that racism isn鈥檛 going away in the North Queensland town. The two boys, aged just 8 and 10, were playing in a park in Wulguru when they were fired upon by a drunken Townsville soldier wielding an air rifle.
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Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of the West African nation Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was killed in the belief that it could extinguish the example he set for African youth and progressive forces across the continent. This idea could not have been more wrong.
Socialist Alliance member and author Terry Townsend launched his new book The Aboriginal Struggle & the Left on December 2 at the Brisbane Activist Centre.
The state with some of the most promising renewable energy resources on the planet also has one of Australia鈥檚 most active climate change committees.
Pro-choice campaigners took to the streets of South Brisbane on December 2 to send a strong and clear message to the Queensland government that old laws need not die hard.
鈥淐limate Inaction Costs Lives.鈥 That's the message Greenpeace activists delivered during a spectacular protest action in Ottawa on December 7, the opening day of the United Nations鈥 climate conference in Copenhagen.
SYDNEY 鈥 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's welcome for right-wing Israeli vice PM Silvan Shalom on December 3 was protested against by about 100 people in Martin Place.
Stalin鈥檚 Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
By Bertrand Patenaude
Faber and Faber, 2009
340 pages, $50 (pb)
Unchecked urban expansion has chewed up large areas of Adelaide鈥檚 productive agricultural land for poorly planned and poorly designed housing developments, with no amenities and little or no access to public transport.
A performance of Caryl Churchill鈥檚 play Seven Jewish Children was to be held at Fremantle鈥檚 multicultural centre Kulcha in November but was scrapped due to pressure from the Jewish Community Council of Western Australia (JCC). Churchill wrote the play in response to Israel鈥檚 brutal invasion of Gaza in December and January.
At Christmas time, 1989, Leonard Bernstein conducted a version of Beethoven鈥檚 9th symphony in Berlin in which he changed one word in the well-known Ode to Joy in the fourth movement. "Freiheit" ("Freedom") replaced "Freude" ("Joy"), to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall that had occurred weeks previously
In this final issue, we at GLW want to thank you for your strong support in 2009.
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