The Socialist Alliance "Howard Overboard" election night party in 麻豆传媒 Weekly's offices in Sydney spontaneously spilled into the streets when John Howard conceded defeat. Jubilant activists celebrated with chants, whistles and pots and pans in a lap around the block which drew out people from their homes. A right-wing government that has plagued Australia since 1996 has been defeated and we have much to celebrate.
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The following article was written by Migrante Australia, an organisation dedicated to organising and mobilising Filipino migrants and protecting their rights and welfare.
I became a grandfather last week. The much-anticipated first grandchild arrived at 11.42pm. That聮s worse than it sounds because she was born in Perth and I live in Sydney 聴 two hours ahead. I groggily answered the phone but my eldest daughter聮s excited voice woke me up quickly and the memory of the birth of my younger daughter just 11 years ago came rushing back.
Fighting social exclusion? (1)
On November 22 Labor deputy leader and industrial relations shadow minister Julia Gillard announced that a Rudd Labor government would set up an "office of social inclusion" within the Department of the Prime
Speakers at a 100-strong rally supporting the November 17 national day of action for Indigenous rights condemned the Howard Coalition government聮s 聯emergency聰 intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities and expressed disappointment with the ALP for its 聯me-too聰 approach
Two conferences of the English anti-war party, Respect 鈥 The Unity Coalition, were convened on November 17 in London. Both were attended by around 350 people. The 鈥淩espect Renewal鈥 forces were led by MP George Galloway and 19 other non-Socialist Workers Party members of Respect鈥檚 national council. The SWP convened its own conference across town.
This year there has been a series of drug-related scandals in Australia鈥檚 two major football codes, the Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL). The scandals have nothing to do with 鈥減erformance enhancing鈥 drug, or even anything to do with the game of football at all. These scandals have been beaten up by a media circus, which has itself fed a frenzy of moral hypocrisy, led by the (now-former) federal Coalition government, with the 鈥渕e-too鈥 Labor Party chiming in.
A nationwide train strike that had crippled France for nine days in protest against right-wing President Nicholas Sarkozy鈥檚 attack on the rail workers鈥 pension system began to end on November 23. News agencies reported that day that rail workers were voting throughout the country to return to work.
More than 200 prominent individuals from the arts and showbusiness in the United States have signed a letter addressed to President George Bush expressing their support for cultural relations between the US and Cuba.
Despite the fact that the November 24 federal election was supposed to be a 鈥渃limate-change election鈥, the release on November 17 of the fourth and final report from the UN鈥檚 Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) barely garnered manstream media attention.
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Bronwyn Jennings, spoke with Vaughan Gunson, an activist with Socialist Worker (Aotearoa), which actively participates in the Residents Action Movement, about RAM鈥檚 activities in defence of peoples鈥 rights and against corporate greed.
Brian Senewiratne: 聯I have been a strong supporter of the left in my native Sri Lanka since I was 16 years old. I am now 76, and remain convinced, even more so, that it is the capitalist policies, first under the colonial British and later the Brown Sahibs of my ethnic group, the Sinhalese, that have taken that country to its condition of failing state.
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