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Stimulus package assists profits

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released on February 18 showed that retail sales increased by 0.8% (seasonally adjusted) in the December quarter.

Scotland: Campus occupations for Gaza

On February 9, 40 students from Glasgow University occupied its computer science research building. This was just one in a series of university occupations by students across Britain — involving as many as 24 campuses at one point — in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

Stop killing Coke

Belching Out the Devil: global adventures with Coca-Cola
By Mark Thomas
Ebury Press, 2008
363 pages, $34.95 (pb)

Karl Marx the ecologist

As the world economy spirals down into its deepest crisis since the great depression, the writings of Karl Marx have made a return to the top seller lists in bookstores. In his native Germany, the sales of Marx’s works have trebled.

Boycott Connex, boycott Israel

Resistance members set up an ‘Israeli military checkpoint’ outside Flinders Street train station to call on the state government to not renew Connex’s contract to run Melbourne’s train system.

UN climate report understated dangers, co-author warns

The key United Nations report used as the basis for climate change policies in many countries, including Australia, seriously underestimated the dangers of global warming, one of its leading compilers has warned.

Egypt: Strike against fertiliser export to Israel

The below article is Abridged from . This strike action follows the successful actions of South African dockworkers, whose refusal to move Israeli goods resulted on February 6 in a ship carrying Israeli goods being unable to offload its cargo.

Climate change and doomsday sci-fi

The Last Albatross
By Ian Irvine
Simon & Schuster, 2008
383pages, $29.95

Eco-activist spotlight: Saving forests, halting climate change

Warrick Jordan is a member of the Huon Valley Environment Centre in Tasmania and is one of the Triabunna 13 (13 forest activists being sued by logging giant Gunns' Ltd). Jordan spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Susan Austin about his activities and the relationship between forests and climate change.

All Australian troops out of Afghanistan

On February 13, Australian troops killed five children and injured at least two other adult civilians in a night-time “operation” in Afghanistan’s southern Oruzgan province.

Afghanistan: Australian troops kill children, again

Five children were shot dead by Australian troops on February 12, near the village of Sarmorghab in Oruzgan province.

Internet filtering — reasons to oppose it

Federal Labor’s proposed internet filtering policy is an attack on freedom of speech and needs to be stopped.