Max Lane spoke to the Socialist Party of Timors (PST) secretary-general, Avelino da Silva Coelho, in the wake of East Timors June 30 parliamentary elections, in which the PST received 0.96% of the vote.
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On July 17, PM John Howards climate change policy was released amidst great fanfare. For most of his political career, Howard has denied the link between climate change and human industry, and the threat that it poses to the planet and society. Now the scientific evidence is irrefutable he has changed tack, and is promoting solutions to the climate change threat that avoid threatening the profits of the polluting corporations.
Four thousand timber workers and their families attended a rally in Launceston in support of the controversial Bell Bay pulp mill on July 19. The Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) called the rally as part of a one-day stop-work action aimed at combating the threat to jobs posed by radical green groups.
Freedom Next Time
By John Pilger
Bantam Press, 2006
356 pages, $35.00(pb)
Available from http://www.resistancebooks.com
By John Pilger
Bantam Press, 2006
356 pages, $35.00(pb)
Available from http://www.resistancebooks.com
The Deserter’s Tale: Why I Walked Away From the War in Iraq
By Joshua Key
Text Publishing, 2007
224 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Joshua Key
Text Publishing, 2007
224 pages, $32.95 (pb)
The revolutionary student movement in Venezuela is divided into countless tiny organisations, often with bases in just one faculty or one campus. One of these organisations, the Popular Revolutionary Movement of Fire (MPR Fogata), in a statement issued in June called for the revolutionary student movement of Venezuela to strengthen the forces in favour of unity. The statement argued: Now we are presented with the possibility of deepening these forces and gradually making that [unity] a reality.
As the worlds most recognisable symbol of struggle and liberation, Ernesto Che Guevaras image seems to become more popular every year. Even the Weekend Australian, a mouthpiece of Australias ruling class, put Che on its front page on July 14 to grab potential buyers attention.
Internationally known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on the night of July 15 in her Durban home at age 55. She was suffering her second bout of cancer, and chemotherapy had evacuated her beautiful long hair.
Organising is well under way for protests during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney in September, to which PM John Howard will be welcoming his war criminal mate, US President George Bush.
At least 500 Teleco workers received termination letters on July 6 as part of the governments announced plan to privatise the company.
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