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Climate change and doomsday sci-fi

The Last Albatross
By Ian Irvine
Simon & Schuster, 2008
383pages, $29.95

Afghanistan: Australian troops kill children, again

Five children were shot dead by Australian troops on February 12, near the village of Sarmorghab in Oruzgan province.

Internet filtering — reasons to oppose it

Federal Labor’s proposed internet filtering policy is an attack on freedom of speech and needs to be stopped.

Ten lessons for the climate movement: looking back, moving forward

Looking back at the growth of the climate movement, it is clear we have made significant progress.

Zimbabwe: Free Jestina Mukoko

The health of Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko has deteriorated as she enters her third month in jail.

Our Common Cause: Health report prescribes Band-Aids

The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) was set up a year ago to review the Australian health system. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pre-election promise — “to end the blame game between Canberra and the states when it comes to health and hospitals” — merely registered the obvious fact that the hospital system is in crisis.

Activists charged for protecting Florentine

One month after 400 people entered an Upper Florentine “exclusion zone” to protest against the logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania on January 18, charges of trespass have been laid against 11 people.

The president and the philosopher: socialism in the 21st century

The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
By Istvan Meszaros
Monthly Review Press, 2008
480 pages, $59.49

The rise of 'socialism for the 21st century'

“For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another”, insisted Argentinean-born revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara at the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria, 1965.

Telstra's union busting agenda

Telstra workers, members of the Communications Plumbing and Electrical Union and the Community and Public Sector Union, took 24-hour strike actions nationally (except Victoria on account of the recent bushfire tragedy) on February 9.

On the box

Message Stick: Voices From The Cape — Documents the "Community Prophet" approach to engaging young Indigenous people from the at-risk community of Aurukun, inspiring them to use their voices again using film. ABC, Friday, February 27,

Guadeloupe: General strike spreads

The article below is a statement released on February 16 by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in France on the situation in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which are still French-run colonies (French Antilles). It is reprinted from .