Three young Tamil Australians began a hunger strike on April 11 to demand that the Australian government press for a permanent ceasefire by the Sri Lankan Army. The SLA is carrying out a brutal military offensive against the Tamil people in the
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As the only weekly newspaper in Australia to regularly house news, discussions and debates on capitalisms crises and socialist solutions, Green Left Weekly is proud to be hosting the World At A Crossroads conference, to be held at Sydney Girls High, over the Easter weekend (April 10-12).
On March 30, a Federal Court hearing at Nepabunna gave a consent determination finally confirming the Adnyamathanha peoples native title rights over their traditional lands.
Workers and the community will march on May Day this year under the banner “Put jobs before profits”.
The Group of 20 meeting of leaders of the worlds biggest economic powers was marked for failure even before it began on April 1.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez argued on March 27 that the economic measures his government has adopted, to confront the global economic crisis, contain “not one neoliberal element”, unlike those adopted by the previous governments.
The article below is by Brian Senewiratne, who is from Sri Lankas Sinhalese ethnic majority and a long-time Tamil rights activist. For his uncompromising stance against the long-term oppression, and current brutal military offensive, against the Sri Lankas Tamil minority by the Sinhalese chauvinist regime, he was recently barred from entering Malaysia and was singled out and victimised by Canadian and Australian immigration officials.
Teachers’ salaries in Venezuela have increased 550% since 1999, education minister Hector Navarra said on March 23, according to the March 24 Diario Vea.
The article below is by Salim Vally, a leading member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee in South Africa and a veteran anti-apartheid activist. A longer version is posted at http://www.links.org.au. Vally will be a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads conference, in Sydney, April 10-12. For more information, or to register, visit ;http://www.worldatacrossroads.org.
“The trouble makers are out in force again”, George Monbiot wrote on April 1 in the Guardian Online.
A new left alliance has formed in Britain to stand in the European Union elections set for June 4.
It has become common practice for many bosses to tell potential employees they must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) to secure a job.
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