On March 9th, 2013, around 400 people gathered in Melbourne to say no to violence against women.
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About 200 people rallied in Melbourne against media baron Rupert Murdoch in Melbourne on April 4. Murdoch was speaking at the 70th anniversary dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs, a right-wing think tank dedicated to preserving and strengthening a pro-big business, neoliberal agenda.
The annual Western Sydney fundraising dinner was held on March 23. In a great start to the year, organisers filled Granville Town Hall and raised more than $1600 for the 麻豆传媒 Weekly fighting fund.
National co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance, Peter Boyle, addresses the opening night session of the Marxism 2013 conference. Marxism 2013 has been organised by Socialist Alternative and supported by Socialist Alliance, 麻豆传媒 Weekly & the Revolutionary Socialist Party. This talk discusses some of the challenges and prospects of left unity in Australia.
On March 30, Students for Palestine organised a rally against Australian university complicit in Israel's crimes. BAE Systems is a defence company worth $US38 billion. They make everything from assault rifles, missiles, tanks, drones, nuclear weapons, and even the shackles used in Guantanamo Bay. BAE has been targeted because of the horrifying weapons systems it sells to Israel.
鈥淭he future is uncertain for more than 400 Shell employees,鈥 , 鈥渁fter the company announced it is selling its refinery in Geelong in Victoria.鈥
Shell's Clyde refinery in NSW and Caltex's Lytton refinery in Queensland are both closing, at a cost of 1080 jobs.
It seems that everyone in Australia can now agree that a class war has erupted. Former Labor Party leader Simon Crean, recently sacked by Prime Minister Julia Gillard said: 鈥淭he Labor Party has always operated most effectively when it has been inclusive, when it鈥檚 sought consensus, not when it has sought division, not when it has gone after class warfare.鈥
The ongoing strike at Sydney University attracted national media attention on March 26 when strike-supporting students were dragged from a lecture theatre by riot police.
The students were engaged in a 鈥渞oaming picket鈥 that was disrupting one of the few remaining classes held that day when police intervened. This sparked debate as to whether student supporters used appropriate tactics to make their presence heard.
A picture of a 1938 Daily Mail article titled "German Jews pouring into this country鈥, circulated social media networks last week and drew comparison with Australia's 鈥渟top the boats鈥 obsession.
鈥淭he number of Jewish aliens entering this country through the 'back door'鈥 was 鈥渁n outrage鈥 and 鈥渁 problem to which The Daily Mail has repeatedly pointed,鈥 the article said.
US International Socialist Organisation member Brian Jones speaking at the opening night of Marxism 2013. This snippet from his speech deals with the hypocrisy and current contradictions in US capitalism including the fights by teachers for justice in education.
鈥淲hile ALP politicians are fleeing in terror from factional and media accusations about using 鈥榗lass war rhetoric鈥, the reality is that there is an ongoing class war that is about to be dramatically escalated if Abbott wins the September 14 elections,鈥 says Peter Boyle.
Boyle was preselected on April 3 by the Socialist Alliance to run in the federal seat of Sydney. He is a national co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance and has been an active socialist since the early 1970s, becoming radicalised around war, race and class issues.
He has two daughters and two grandchildren.
Income support for single parents has been slashed by up to $140 a fortnight as part of a new 鈥渇air incentives to work鈥 bill adopted last year, similar to a 2006 law designed by the former John Howard government.
Insidious in nature, the new rules will move many sole parents onto Newstart once their youngest child turns eight. The federal government says this will encourage parents to find work.
But it may conflict with state-based child protection laws.
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