The latest chaos on Wall Street — the worst financial upheaval in the US since the 1930s Great Depression — highlights not just the scale of the world financial crisis, but the needless destruction caused by the blind competition at the core of capitalism.
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The Socialist Alliance will stand two candidates for the City of Maribyrnong in the November council elections, on a platform of “community and environment before developers’ profits”.
Workers at Huyck Wagner in Breakwater have been trying to negotiate a new wage agreement for several months. The bossÂ’s offer of a 2% pay rise would mean, given current inflation, a pay cut in real terms.
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Thirty years we’ve had, of unfathomably wealthy bankers and dealers being justified as part of the free market.
On September 14, the Yungaba Action Group (YAG) protested at the Bligh Labor government’s community cabinet in Carindale as part of the campaign to save the historic migrant cultural centre from being sold off for private development.
Supporters of a womanÂ’s right to choose rallied outside Liberal anti-abortion Senator George BrandisÂ’s office on September 16. They were protesting against Tasmanian Liberal Senator Guy BennettÂ’s private memberÂ’s bill to end Medicare funding for abortions after 14 weeksÂ’ pregnancy. The bill, due for parliamentary debate on September 17, has been referred to a committee.
Supporters of social justice around the world were devastated to receive the news that renowned US socialist and fighter for a better world Peter Camejo had succumbed to cancer and passed away on September 13.
The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) has condemned the arrest of an opposition member of parliament and two journalists (one an outspoken online political blogger) under the Internal Security Act (ISA) allowing indefinite detention after the governmentÂ’s biggest security clampdown since losing support in March elections.
The Victorian Abortion Law Reform bill was passed by the parliamentÂ’s lower house on September 12 after more than 70 hours of debate. This may finally mean that abortion is removed from the stateÂ’s Crimes Act dating back to 1958. Until the bill is passed, abortion remains a crime.
Friends of Cuba held actions in Perth and Canberra on September 14, kicking off an international campaign to win the release of five Cuban anti-terrorists sentenced to long prison terms in the United States on September 12, 10 years ago.
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Until last month’s major party conventions, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s victory was looking the pretty likely. With his message of “change”, it isn’t hard to see why.
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