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.
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Five children were shot dead by Australian troops on February 12, near the village of Sarmorghab in Oruzgan province.
Federal Labor’s proposed internet filtering policy is an attack on freedom of speech and needs to be stopped.
Looking back at the growth of the climate movement, it is clear we have made significant progress.
The health of Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko has deteriorated as she enters her third month in jail.
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) was set up a year ago to review the Australian health system. Prime Minister Kevin Rudds pre-election promise to end the blame game between Canberra and the states when it comes to health and hospitals merely registered the obvious fact that the hospital system is in crisis.
One month after 400 people entered an Upper Florentine exclusion zone to protest against the logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania on January 18, charges of trespass have been laid against 11 people.
The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
By Istvan Meszaros
Monthly Review Press, 2008
480 pages, $59.49
By Istvan Meszaros
Monthly Review Press, 2008
480 pages, $59.49
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another, insisted Argentinean-born revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara at the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria, 1965.
Less than a year ago, it was widely held among mainstream economists that the world economy was doing fine, and that, in the face of any eventual problems, Australia would be secure.
Telstra workers, members of the Communications Plumbing and Electrical Union and the Community and Public Sector Union, took 24-hour strike actions nationally (except Victoria on account of the recent bushfire tragedy) on February 9.
Message Stick: Voices From The Cape — Documents the "Community Prophet" approach to engaging young Indigenous people from the at-risk community of Aurukun, inspiring them to use their voices again using film. ABC, Friday, February 27,
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