Melbourne, Australia Occupy Melbourne’s Indigenous Working Group is leading the call to evict Melbourne Mayor Robert Doyle. Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women took part in this angry demonstration linking… Read more »
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Saludo revolucionario para el Año Nuevo 2010
This statement in English / Este declaracions en inglés Cariñosos saludos para los trabajadores, la gente que lucha y los pobres del mundo. El año pasado nos hizo encarar una… Read more »
A revolutionary New Year’s greeting for 2010
Este declaracion en español / This statement in Spanish Warm greetings to the workers, fighters and poor of the world. The last year has confronted us with scores of challenges… Read more »
Letter from Australia: How lucky can you get?
Australia. It calls itself “The Lucky Country.” Land of surf and sun, great climate, and lots of fun. And if you’re oh, so cosmopolitan, there’s Sydney — the San Francisco… Read more »
Australian Labor Party divided — Bureaucrats betray East Timorese resistance
When the Australian Labor Party (ALP) swept to power in March 1983, rank-and-file members understandably assumed that ALP political policies would finally become official Australian government policy. But Bob Hawke,… Read more »
Australia: Aboriginal people battle land grab
A few miles north of Alice Springs, a town in Australia’s Northern Territory, is an area called Inketyne. Inketyne is Australian Aboriginal (Black) land. The major site in Inketyne is… Read more »
The Alison Thorne case: Australian teacher fights for free speech
A teacher’s right to speak publicly on controversial issues is at the heart of a battle being waged by Australian school teacher and lesbian socialist feminist Alison Thorne. On one… Read more »
Fired Australian Teacher Stands Fast
If you don’t fight, you lose, goes the old political saying, and my experience has vividly confirmed its truth after two-and- one-half years of battling for free speech against an… Read more »
Defending the right to be radical — Thorne triumphs in Australian free speech uproar
Victory is the verdict for Alison Thorne. The Australian activist’s successful battle for reinstatement as a teacher has forced her government to acknowledge that public employees — even those like… Read more »
Social Accord: hangman’s noose for Australian labor
The Australian working class is paying dearly for a social contract deal struck between Prime Minister Robert Hawke, leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the leaders of the… Read more »