On July 27-28, 200 trade unionists from the higher education, electricity, telecommunications, finance, municipal services, pharmaceutical and health-care sectors in the Israeli-occupied West Bank attended a conference to set up the Coalition of Independent and Democratic Trade Unions and Workers Committees.
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In Australia, as in other major capitalist countries, the official response to global warming is to deny or gloss over the utter catastrophe confronting human society and try to carry on with business as usual, making only a few relatively minor adjustments here and there.
The front page of the July 25 Australian gushed with a headline making the astounding claim that the Australian Building and Construction Commission(ABCC) had delivered a $15 billion boost to the economy by improving productivity as a result of reining in thuggish union behaviour.
Two events took place in Brisbane to commemorate one of the bitterest industrial disputes in Australias history. A forum held by the Brisbane Labour History Association, and a musical theatre production Red Cap explored the events of the 1964-65 Mt Isa miners strike that put the north Queensland town on the map, galvanising the community in support of the miners.
As It Happened: Fidel Castro — During the 20 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba became a prime example of a socialist state, with free education and free health services for its population. SBS, Friday, August 10, 8.30pm.
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