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Communism and Football — Throughout the 20th century, the football grounds of Eastern Europe became political battlegrounds. SBS, Friday, September 28, 8.30pm. Message Stick: Cape Expectations — The small Cape York Indigenous community of
The following statement was issued on September 17 by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist tendency in Australia’s Socialist Alliance.
“Each night we wonder whether we will see the morning, or if a tidal wave or tsunami might wash us away in the night”, Bernard Tunim of the Carteret Islands community in Papua New Guinea told a public meeting on September 19 organised by Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Oxfam Australia.
The Bourne Ultimatum
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Starring Matt Damon & Julia Stiles
111 minutes
Screening nationally
Next month, a representative of the foreign ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will visit Australia to address the Latin America and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum in Melbourne on October 11-14.’s, Green Left Weekly’s Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter conducted an interview in Caracas last November with Venezuelan vice-minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Vladimir Villegas. Villegas talked about the Venezuelan government’s revolutionary approach to international relations.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union’s Western Australian branch has been organising Filipino workers employed in WA on section 457 visas. Joel Asphar, the AMWU organiser responsible for this work, told Green Left Weekly that “the campaign to recruit and organise these workers was not something we decided to do. It was out of necessity. I was responsible for the workshops south of the Swan river and there were 550 Filipino workers on 457 visas.”
On September 13 Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) reaffirmed its solidarity with Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution at its annual conference, backing Venezuela’s decision not to renew the public-broadcast license of the private TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), which had “supported the military coup [in 2002] against the democratically elected government of Venezuela”.
The War on Democracy
Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin
96 minutes
In limited release nationally
http://www.warondemocracy.net
An inconvenient truth "America's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican
A massive drop in Arctic sea ice during this year’s northern summer has opened up the Northwest Passage — a sea route that passes between the frozen Arctic region and northern Canada that could provide a quicker shipping route between Europe and Asia than previously allowed by either the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal — for the first time since satellite recordings began in 1978.
The Molotov’s new track “Terror Nullius” comments on how “white Australia” treats its first people and rejects the lie that Australia was ever an empty land (terra nullius). With a pumping rock/dance beat, didgeridoo bass lines (from Dave-J), heavy guitars and spitfire lyrics, “Terror Nullius” calls on all Australians to fight for “a fair go” for Murri, Koori and all Indigenous Australians. Vote for this song and hear it played on Triple J by visiting http://www.triplejunearthed.com/themolotov. The song can also be downloaded at http://www.myspace.com/themolotov1.
This year, Walk against Warming rallies are happening two weeks before the federal election. The rallies will be an important way for thousands of people across Australia to send a direct message to governments about the massive changes we need to avoid dangerous climate change. But more than that it will also give young people a voice and inspire them beyond the federal election to get active in grassroots campaigns to stop climate change.