鈥淭wo years of brutal Con-Dem cuts and failings have left the nation seeing red as Labour gained hundreds of seats across local councils today,鈥 Britain's Morning Star reported on May 4.
The article said the council elections took place against a 鈥渂ackdrop of a double-dip recession, despite massive cuts to jobs and services鈥. The Conservative Party lost 11 councils to Labour and the Conservatives' coalition partner in government, the Liberal Democrats, lost one.
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Jackie Kriz, an Australian Nurses Federation delegate from Geelong, will be the special guest speaker at Sydney鈥檚 annual 麻豆传媒 Weekly May Day dinner, where she will share her experiences of the Victorian nurses鈥 remarkable victorious campaign and some of the lessons we can learn from it.
It would not come as a surprise to many activists, but a little of the close relationship between police and commercial interests has been revealed in outside the Max Brenner chocolate shop in QV shopping centre in Melbourne鈥檚 CBD. The trial began on May 1 and is scheduled to last for two weeks.
The Ballroom at Melbourne Trades Hall was packed with about 130 people on May 4 for a public forum titled 鈥淧rotest on Trial鈥. The event sought to build support for the 鈥淢ax Brenner 19鈥 鈥 Palestine solidarity activists on trial for taking part in a protest outside a Melbourne Max Brenner chocolate shop last year.
Speakers at the forum drew links between the violent attacks on Occupy Melbourne last year and the police repression of peaceful Palestine protesters outside Max Brenner.
For the past 12 weeks, students of Quebec鈥檚 colleges and universities have been on strike against Premier Jean Charest鈥檚 proposal to increase tuition fees by 75%. The indefinite strike involves more than 170,000 students and is now attracting high school students. Broad layers of the general public are sympathetic to the movement.
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The Victorian Coalition government has taken to the state with a razor and announced huge cuts in the 2012 budget. These are the biggest cuts since the Jeff Kennett-led Coalition government that ruled Victoria from 1992-1999.
Victorian TAFE institutes in particular will be hard hit. The level of cuts was so severe that higher education minister Peter Hall sent a letter to TAFE heads on April 29 indicating that he had considered resigning from the ministry.
For weeks, Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and treasurer Wayne Swan have focused on one thing: using the coming federal budget to prove that they are 鈥済ood economic managers鈥.
But good managers for who?
The Labor government is determined to deliver a surplus and cut public debt at the cost of more public sector jobs, services and cuts even to the meagre welfare support for single parents.
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East.
Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Centre may monitor whether you are typing not merely "al-Qaeda", but "exercise", "drill", "wave", "initiative" and "organisation": all proscribed words.
The British government's announcement that it intends to spy on every email and phone call is old hat. The satellite vacuum cleaner known as Echelon has been doing this for years.
As part of savage budget cuts, the Victorian Coalition government has slashed $300 million over four years of funding for the provider of public technical and further education, the state鈥檚 18 TAFE institutes that teach about 400,000 students a year.
Funding per student in 80% of courses has been cut from about $8 per training hour to as low as $1.50 - to a range meant to reflect labour market priorities.
Trades apprenticeships, aged care and child care received some small increases.
People from all sides of politics came out on the streets of Paris in great numbers on May 1.
Ahead of the second round of the French presidential poll on May 6, it was a highly politicised May Day. In the first round on April 22, the Socialist Party's Francois Hollande beat the right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
The far right National Front's candidate Marine Le Pen scored a record vote of about 18%. The Left Front's Jean-Luc Melenchon took about 11% of the vote.
In his excellent discussion piece in the lead up to the recent , climate activist , and the scale and urgency of the solutions required so great, that it is impossible to talk about them within the current public policy frame.
鈥淭he business and political spheres have horizons too narrow and too limited in time to be able to deal with the challenges and complexities of global warming.鈥
鈥淪top more Stolen Generations, take back control of our lives鈥 was the main theme of a rally and march held in Brisbane on May 2. About 50 Murris and supporters gathered at Roma Street Forum (Emma Miller Place) for a rally, then marched to the office of the Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services in George Street.
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