The Latin America and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum (LAAPISF) in Melbourne on October 11-14 will be attended by one of the most important and interesting leaders of the Venezuelan revolution Comandante William Izarra.
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Hamas: A Beginners Guide
By Khaled Hroub
Pluto Press, 2006
170 pages, $36.95
By Khaled Hroub
Pluto Press, 2006
170 pages, $36.95
The sudden departure on May 29 of visiting Jakarta governor, General Sutiyoso, after being asked to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Brian Peters in East Timor in 1975, further incriminates him in the plot to kill five Australian journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975. According to deputy NSW state coroner Dorelle Pinch, Sutiyoso had allegedly been part of Team Susi, one of the Indonesian military units in Balibo when the journalists were killed. It has taken 32 years for there to be an inquest into the murder of the Balibo Five.
Mark Tedeschi QC, counsel assisting the coroner, told the court that eyewitness accounts provided incontrovertible evidence that the men were not caught in crossfire when Indonesian troops attacked Balibo, but were deliberately killed by Indonesian soldiers after they tried to surrender. Witnesses gave evidence that the Gough Whitlam government knew of the Balibo executions within hours of them being carried out.
Below, SHIRLEY SHACKLETON, the widow of Greg Shackleton, one of the five who was murdered, recounts some of the bloody struggle for self-determination.
Peering back and forth, dead men weep.
No sleep, for victims of the holocaust
Auschwitz! Treblinka! Sobibor!
As
Kindred spirits cry for Palestine.
No sleep, for victims of the holocaust
Auschwitz! Treblinka! Sobibor!
As
Kindred spirits cry for Palestine.
Dave Noonan, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union’s construction division national secretary, has slammed the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) for “intimidating and bullying” workers.
On May 30, Labors industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard shocked many unionists when she announced at the National Press Club that a Rudd Labor government would retain the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) until January 31, 2010. This back flip comes a month after Labor decided, at its national conference, to abolish the hated body. ACTU president Sharan Burrow said she did not support the delay.
The following letter, signed by a range of prominent figures in Britain, calls for respect for the Venezuelan governments decision not to renew RCTVs broadcasting licence. Signatories to the letter, which appeared in the British Guardian on May 26, include Tony Benn, John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and various MPs and trade union and student leaders.
Environmental activists, excluded from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperations May 27-30 energy summit, erected a large inflatable cooling tower outside the fenced-off security zone surrounding Darwins Parliament House. Energy ministers from the US, Australia and the Pacific rim failed to come up with any solutions to the global warming crisis, reaffirming instead the dominant role of fossil fuels in future energy supplies.
On May 31, a picket of 50 people organised by Solidarity Unity protested outside the offices of Mighty River Power, which supplies electricity to Mercury Energy, the company responsible for the death of an Auckland woman on May 29.
The Canadian-owned Barrick Gold Corporation, the worlds largest gold producer, is exploring, building and operating huge, open-pit goldmines on nearly every continent on the planet.
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The union movement must take urgent action to end the ALPs backflips on industrial relations.
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