Barry Healy

Carbon market undermines Perth recycling

Ratepayers in Perth’s southern suburbs are counting the cost of the collapse of the federal government’s Greenhouse Friendly voluntary carbon offsets trading scheme.

Family First: love God, hate Earth

Family First, the small party based on the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church is carving out a niche for itself as an environmental vandal, at the federal and at state levels.

John Lennon: the power of art and peace

Forty years ago, between April and May 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began an international cultural struggle against the Vietnam War using their fame and notoriety to draw attention to their peace message.

Ernest Mandel, a revolutionary life

Ernest Mandel, A Rebel’s Dream Deferred
By Jan Willem Stutje
Verso, 2009
392 pp., $60.30 (hb)

Fela Anikulapo Kuti lives!

In proof that Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s radical legacy continues long after his death, Nigerian government authorities shut down his night club, Afrika Shrine, in Lagos on May 26.

Climate change kills

Climate change harms 325 million people and kills 300,000 every year, says a report released by the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF).

Economic crisis may breed forced labour says ILO

There are still about 12.3 million people worldwide who work in some form of bonded or forced labour, according to a May 12 International Labour Organisation (ILO) report.

Big business to planet Earth: 'drop dead'

Only 38% of FTSE 350 respondents factored in climate change risks on business practices and reported the risks to their investors, according to an April report from Acclimatise, an English risk management company specialising in climate change.

Nigeria: Oil giants sued

Eight Nigerian indigenous communities announced on February 19 that they are suing Shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Agip and Nigeria National Petroleum for failing to cease gas flaring, which, they describe as “gross injustice and unfairness to host communities”.

Cuba: 'No one is excess'

Cuba is struggling to exit the “Special Period” — as the period of economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main trading partner, in the early 1990s is known — and the trade union movement is helping to chart the way forward, a leading Cuban unionist told Green Left Weekly in December.

Wind power hit by crisis

The international economic crisis has plunged a knife into the growth of wind-generated electricity in Europe.

Rosa Luxemburg: revolutionary hero

Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great figures of the socialist movement, was callously murdered in Berlin on January 15, 1919.