Thirty people protested outside the office of NSW Labor MP Carmel Tebbutt on August 16 as part of a 聯Super Saturday聰 of campaign stalls against electricity privatisation. Around 50 electorates around the state were targeted by Power to the People 聴 a campaign group that includes ALP members, trade unions, Greens, the Socialist Alliance, Solidarity, and other community and environment groups.
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Thirty people protested outside the office of NSW Labor MP Carmel Tebbutt on August 16 as part of a 聯Super Saturday聰 of campaign stalls against electricity privatisation. Around 50 electorates around the state were targeted by Power to the People 聴 a campaign group that includes ALP members, trade unions, Greens, the Socialist Alliance, Solidarity, and other community and environment groups.
A group of maintenance workers at the National Foods milk processing plant in Chelsea Heights has won a 21% pay rise after having been on strike for three and a half weeks from late July. They will resume work on August 17.
On August 7, after a week of border clashes, Georgia聮s pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili launched a military attack against South Ossetia.
A number of student organisations have responded angrily to the revelation that the National Union of Students (NUS) has reneged on agreements to advocate that the government lower the age of 鈥渋ndependence鈥 to 18-years-old immediately.
Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) were 聯abolished聰 by the Rudd Labor government in February. However, mining giant BHP has taken advantage of 聯gaps聰 in the new laws to sign up 46 new employees to a virtually identical Enterprise Workplace Agreement, according to Steve McCartney, WA president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Indonesian labour activist and chairperson of the Deliberative Council of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas), Dita Sari, has declared that she will run for the Star Reform Party (PBR) in the 2009 legislative elections.
Mamdouh Habib, who was tortured in Egypt then detained in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for three-and-a-half years before being released in February 2005 without charge, has faced continal harassment and persecution since his return to Australia.
The Socialist Alliance campaign for Marrickville council is underway, with a ticket of three committed activists nominated for the north ward. The candidates are Pip Hinman, Jill Hickson and Howard Byrnes.
Political and social conflict continues to grow in Peru in the wake of a general strike against the neoliberal policies of President Alan Garcia聮s government, which saw much of the country paralysed on July 9.
Georgia
I am writing to condemn our news coverage of the war in Georgia.
You could not tell from our "news" or "current affairs" or interviews with "experts", that a US puppet state, armed and trained by Israel and the USA, attacked killing
In one of the youngest local government election tickets ever, the Socialist Alliance is standing Laura Ealing, 21, Tom Cameron, 19, and Zane Alcorn, 24, for ward 3 in the upcoming Newcastle council elections.
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