Star Fucking Hipsters are a New York-based punk band. It was formed in 2005 by members from other punk acts, including Leftover Crack, Ensign and The Ergs! The band鈥檚 third album, From the Dumpster to the Grave, is due for release this year.
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Late on March 12, a group of drunken men yelling abuse and threats of physical violence entered the site of the Aboriginal occupation of the planned Brighton Bypass in Tasmania.
Trudy Maluga from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre described it as a 鈥淜u Klux Klan-type鈥 incident, the Hobart Mercury reported on March 17.
鈥淎 group of Aborigines has been harassed and racially abused by a large group of drunken men and youths at the Kutalayna camp at Brighton,鈥 Maluga said.
I am sure we all shared similar reactions to last week鈥檚 earthquake-tsunami tragedy in Japan.
First, we blinked at reports of a big earthquake. Perhaps for a moment our response was dulled 鈥攚orn down by the string of recent disasters: the Christchurch earthquake, the Queensland floods and cyclones.
Anyway, this was Japan, a rich country and probably the most earthquake-prepared nation in the world.
Opinion polls are predicting that the likely winner of the April 10 Peruvian presidential election will be Alejandro Toledo. The candidate of Possible Peru, Toledo was the neoliberal president from 2001-06.
After the narrow victory of the moderate left candidate Susana Villaran from Social Force in the Lima mayoral elections last year, it was predicted that the left鈥檚 prospects might improve nationally.
So far this has failed to materialise, owing partly to a redoubled effort by the elite and its foreign backers to promote Toledo.
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I agree completely with the article 鈥淗ow Socialism can be Won鈥 (GLW #871). However, I urge 麻豆传媒 Weekly readers not to forget the source of the socialist movement.
This is the ideas formulated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and set out in The Communist Manifesto and many other works.
There have been many attacks on Marxism over the years, a lot of them unfortunately coming from the political left. It has been suggested for instance that the computer has made Marxism obsolete.
Luis Almario, along with other Latin American activists, made the decision after many years as members to resign from the ALP to join the Socialist Alliance.
Zane Alcorn, candidate for the seat of Newcastle in the NSW state election, speaks from People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port, 13th March 2011.
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