Analysis

NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention

In early October, Green Left Weekly visited the Alyawarr people’s walk-off camp, three hours north-east of Alice Springs.

Western Sahara plundered by Norway's pension fund

The Norwegian government pension fund has been accused of unethical investment in fertiliser companies that buy phosphate rock exported from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.

Rudd promotes climate failure at UN

More and more people accept that we need emergency action to achieve a safe climate. The Copenhagen Summit in December will be a dramatic opportunity for governments to show whether or not they are prepared to be part of the solution.

Teachers challenge officials in education union elections

Every three years the Australian Education Union (AEU), which covers teachers and other eduction workers in government schools, holds elections for all union representatives in the four sectors (early childhood, primary, secondary and TAFE). The elections include all senior officer positions and the AEU state branch council.

Dreaming of a new Utopia

Sick of having your welfare entitlements compulsorily controlled by the Rudd government?

Cutting the train line won't 'fix our city'

A coalition of Newcastle business groups has launched a new campaign called “fix our city”.

Recession creates greater division

As the Australian economy begins its “recovery”, economic and social indicators show the recession has disproportionately affected working people and the poor. The rich are just getting richer.

Gramsci and creating the world anew

Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, was an important contributor to Marxist theory with his idea of “hegemony”.

Geelong: Asbestos is still killing

Australia has one of the highest rates of asbestos-related disease in the world. Asbestos kills and goes on killing for generations. The Australian Council of Trade Unions estimates that by 2020, 30,000 to 40,000 people in Australia will have contracted an asbestos-related cancer.

Murdoch press calls for climate catastrophe

Not in so many words, mind you — frankness has rarely been the strong suit of News Corporation journalists and editors. The editorial in question, published in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian on September 10, argued in support of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS): in other words, “clean coal”.

Green jobs not dirty energy!

The following Socialist Alliance statement was distributed at the “Switch off Hazelwood” power station protest in Victoria on September 12 and 13. * * *

No room at the inn

With seven boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted in September, Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre is fast filling up. It now holds 677 detainees.