On March 12, the maintenance crew from Fosters Brewery, sacked by the company in February, set up a protest outside their old workplace in Abbotsford, Melbourne.
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One hundred and fifty people, including members of the Tamil and Turkish communities, attended an International Womens Day rally against war on March 8. The event was initiated by the Anatolian Cultural Centre.
More than 300,000 people poured into the streets of San Salvador on March 7, for the closing rally of the campaign for Mauricio Funes, the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation’s (FMLN) presidential candidate for the March 15 elections.
Under a scheme about to be rolled out by the Rudd government, Aboriginal communities living in remote parts of Australia will be forced to bargain for access to public housing by surrendering control of their land for at least 40 years.
After 8000 km on the road with 100 vehicles and 500 volunteers, the passage of the Viva Palestina convoy into Gaza City brought out thousands of jubilant Palestinians to celebrate the latest breakthrough against Israeli oppression.
The Fair Work Bill (FWB) being decided in the Senate will be weakened by Labor’s deal with the opposition and independent senators, which further delivers the corporate agenda to undermine gains for workers’ rights.
The killing of two British soldiers and a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer by Irish republicans opposed to the peace process have threatened to destabilise the political situation in the six counties in the north of Ireland still claimed by Britain.
The following statement was recently released by Climate Action Canberra in response to the government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Visit http://climateactioncanberra.org .
This article is abridged from accounts by Farooq Tariq, a leader of the Labour Party Pakistan, posted at http://www.links.org.au. An LPP representative will be attending the World at a Crossroads conference in Sydney, April 10-12. Visit http://www.worldatacrossroads.org.
The consequences of the global economic and financial crisis is beginning to hit the Bolivian economy, the poorest in South America.
The glory of being the other. The pride and punishment of not being like them
Not being white, being Indian and being half cast
That is the harsh but ultimately glorious destiny of the Bolivian.
The general strike in the French Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe, which began on January 20, ended March 4, when an accord was signed between the Collective Against Super-Exploitation (LKP) strike collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government.
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