Kevin Rudds election provides an opportunity for Australia and Aboriginal people to repair the damage caused by the Howard years. Rudds intention to apologise to the Stolen Generations already indicates a positive change of national policy towards Aboriginal people and should he remove the NT emergency laws, Aboriginal reconciliation will be further enhanced.
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Twenty-one police cars swarmed on the inner-western suburb of Flemington on November 28 after allegations a teenager of African descent swore at two police cars on patrol.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In the years following the revolution, its leaders initiated the formation of the Communist (Third) International (Comintern), an international grouping of communist parties. In Venezuela, the leadership of the country’s unfolding socialist revolution have issued a call for a new international of Latin American left parties. In this article, part of a series on the early years of the Comintern, John Riddell looks at the relationship between communist revolutionaries and colonised peoples.
Airport security workers at the Oakland airport held an organising meeting on November 21 and received food in a food distribution organised by Filipino Association of Workers and Immigrants; Filipinos for Affirmative Action; Service Employees Local
Since the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in October, there has been little in the mainstream media coverage of events in Burma. During the crackdown, many people were killed or disappeared by the military as society was placed under curfew.
After more than one-and-a-half decades of constant erosion under Beijings pro-capitalist policies, Chinas public sector has shrunk to less than 40% of the countrys economy, and an even smaller share of industry and services.
Its time for a new page to be written in our nations history Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd, November 24.
Dear Green Left Weekly reader,
What a relief to finally see the back of John Howard and his despised Coalition government!
What a relief to finally see the back of John Howard and his despised Coalition government!
The first negotiations between the state government and Victorian teachers following a 10,000 strong November 21 stop-work meeting bore no fruit according to a November 30 press release by the Australian Education Unions (AEU) Victorian branch.
The Federation of Community Legal Centres has criticised Victorias Office of Police Integrity (OPI) and the Ethical Standards Department (ESD) for allowing police corruption, misconduct and violence to go unchecked despite several damning reports and public hearings this year, said Will Crawford, a federation spokesperson, on November 28.
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