When the Murdoch-owned Australian starts attacking students who took to the streets on March 27 as part of the National Union of Students鈥 (NUS) protest for free education, it is evidence that student activism makes conservatives very nervous.
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Bernie Rosen really was a man for the people.
He battled for the rights of the exploited and oppressed, from being a teenager before WWII, right to the very end of his life.
I have a collection of letters from Bernie, each in his increasingly spindly handwriting and each packed in a little envelope. Every letter is an encouragement to his comrades to carry on the struggle and advice on how we should do so.
For anyone who knows the science, it鈥檚 settled 鈥 fossil fuels need to be banished fast from our energy mix. But how do we achieve it? Can we rely on renewable sources such as wind and solar? Or must humanity turn to nuclear power?
That鈥檚 a controversy that has bubbled away for years among people who all accept the dangers of global warming. Now, from the energy sector in China, there鈥檚 hard new evidence bearing on this debate.
The experience in China shows that as a way of quickly replacing greenhouse-polluting fuels, renewable energy wins against nuclear, hands down.
Socialist councillor Sam Wainwright has vowed to run a fierce campaign for the seat of Fremantle aimed at winning public support for confiscating the wealth of the mining billionaires and the big banks.
鈥淭he mining boom reveals starkly the manifest inequality of capitalism in Australia today,鈥 Wainwright told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
鈥淥n the one hand, we have Gina Rinehart 鈥 who has become the richest person in Australia 鈥 and on the other hand we have homeless people on the streets of Fremantle.
Twelve years ago, with the support of the United Nations, world leaders agreed to work together to achieve universal education, promote gender equality and halve extreme poverty by 2015.
Known as the (MDGs), the initiative has been described as the 鈥渕ost successful global anti-poverty push in history鈥.
But how much have the goals really achieved? Five years after they were adopted, their achievements were discussed at the World Social Forum held in Brazil in 2005.
On March 9th, 2013, around 400 people gathered in Melbourne to say no to violence against women.
About 200 people rallied in Melbourne against media baron Rupert Murdoch in Melbourne on April 4. Murdoch was speaking at the 70th anniversary dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs, a right-wing think tank dedicated to preserving and strengthening a pro-big business, neoliberal agenda.
The annual Western Sydney fundraising dinner was held on March 23. In a great start to the year, organisers filled Granville Town Hall and raised more than $1600 for the 麻豆传媒 Weekly fighting fund.
National co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance, Peter Boyle, addresses the opening night session of the Marxism 2013 conference. Marxism 2013 has been organised by Socialist Alternative and supported by Socialist Alliance, 麻豆传媒 Weekly & the Revolutionary Socialist Party. This talk discusses some of the challenges and prospects of left unity in Australia.
鈥淭he future is uncertain for more than 400 Shell employees,鈥 , 鈥渁fter the company announced it is selling its refinery in Geelong in Victoria.鈥
Shell's Clyde refinery in NSW and Caltex's Lytton refinery in Queensland are both closing, at a cost of 1080 jobs.
On March 30, Students for Palestine organised a rally against Australian university complicit in Israel's crimes. BAE Systems is a defence company worth $US38 billion. They make everything from assault rifles, missiles, tanks, drones, nuclear weapons, and even the shackles used in Guantanamo Bay. BAE has been targeted because of the horrifying weapons systems it sells to Israel.
It seems that everyone in Australia can now agree that a class war has erupted. Former Labor Party leader Simon Crean, recently sacked by Prime Minister Julia Gillard said: 鈥淭he Labor Party has always operated most effectively when it has been inclusive, when it鈥檚 sought consensus, not when it has sought division, not when it has gone after class warfare.鈥
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