BRISBANE — "While we're fighting the IR laws, socialists need to never lose sight of the goal of replacing the capitalist system entirely", well-known left-wing historian Humphrey McQueen told a public forum held at the Brisbane Activist Centre on
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne
When General Motors-Holden's contract with Pilkington Glass to supply windscreens and back windows for cars ends at the beginning of 2006, 120 jobs will be lost from the Geelong and Laverton plants in Victoria, and the Pooraka
Capitalism is above all a contradictory social system, and this is very evident in the area of human health and well-being. At the same time that capitalism has greatly increased the potential to curb disease and improve health, it squanders this
Following the success of the June 30-July 1 nationwide union protests against the Howard government's proposed anti-union laws, in which up to 350,000 people participated, the ACTU executive has called a national day of protest action on Tuesday,
Rohan Pearce
The August 1 death of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al Saud triggered a predictable, and nauseating, flurry of tributes from the "Coalition of the Willing" — the Iraq invasion alliance of Australia, Britain and the US.
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Wanda Fish
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
In the wake of the London bombings and angry condemnation of terrorism,
Workers on all of Argentina's railroads, except the Buenos Aires subway network, went on strike on August 4, together with other sectors, demanding a salary rise. Engine-driver guild representatives warned that if there was no agreement in a week,
SYDNEY — Roland Oldham, president of MoruroeTatou, an association of former workers from the French nuclear test sites of Moruroa and Tangataufa, told a meeting on August 3 that no Tahitian worker had yet received compensation for their part in the
Jim McIlroy and Pip Hinman
The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of Iraq, peace activist and author Phyllis Bennis commented at a meeting sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum and Just Peace Queensland on July
Norm Dixon
The Australian government's policy on global warming could be summed by a verse from Bobby McFerrin's facetious late-'80s hit song "Don't worry, be happy": "In every life we have some trouble/ But when you worry you make it double/ Don't
Liam Mitchell
Employers are rubbing their hands with glee at the early Christmas presents PM John Howard's new industrial relations laws promise them.
The prospects of cutting labour costs, reducing or eliminating benefits such as long-service
Hiroshima
Good editorial [on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, GLW #536]. Here's something you missed: In a documentary, The Day After Trinity, narrated by Robert Oppenheimer (head of the Manhattan Project), he said, paraphrasing, "We put Hiroshima and
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