While much of Venezuelan's attention is focussed on the December 4 National Assembly elections, another set of important elections are scheduled to take place during November in the municipality of Sucre.
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Liam Mitchell
Most of the people in the Howard government's TV advertising blitz for its planned new industrial relations laws are highly paid actors receiving $6000 each to appear in the ads, vastly above the standard rate. They were even given a
John Pilger
"The propagandist's purpose", wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human". The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the
PERTH — More than 200 people crammed into the Maritime Union of Australia's North Fremantle office on October 29 to hear discussion about how to fight the Howard government's proposed industrial relations laws. Speakers included former
On October 28, we sent the following letter to Gary Kennedy (secretary, Newcastle Trades Hall Council), Alison Peters (deputy assistant secretary Unions NSW), Wayne Reynolds (Newcastle university branch president, National Tertiary Education Union)
15 union protests
PERTH — The anti-union West Australian has stepped up its campaign of demonising the CFMEU construction union. In what appears to be an attempt to dissuade construction workers from attending the November 15 community day of
HOBART — After a lengthy recess, the Tasmanian Council for Civil Liberties recommenced activity in August in response to recent government attacks on democracy. Demanding "no police state in Australia", the council will hold a rally on November 12
Pot calls kettle black
"Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.' And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers... He assures
On November 5, 1855, the great US socialist Eugene Debs was born in Terra Haute, Indiana. Debs was to play a leading role in the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU), and was jailed in 1894 for his part in an ARU strike against the Chicago
Liam Mitchell
"Billy", who features in the federal Coalition government's WorkChoices booklet promoting its planned industrial relations "reforms", has to sign an individual contract (Australian Workplace Agreement) to get a job. He is currently
MELBOURNE — More than 80 people attended a double-header launch on October 28. The Melbourne west district of Socialist Alliance launched its campaign for the Maribyrnong Council elections and new activist band The Conch gave its first ever
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New high school zine launched
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
Over the recent school holidays, a group of Adelaide high school students, in association with Resistance, produced the first issue of a new zine, The Bench. The zine has
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