The vote against the planned sell-off of electricity by the NSW government of Premier Morris Iemma at the May 3 NSW ALP conference exceeded the expectations of ALP and union anti-privatisation campaigners.
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The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network May Day brigade of 15 unionists attended a massive May Day march in Caracas along with an estimated 500,000-750,000 people, all in red T-shirts, from all over the country. Two of the participants, John Cleary and Coral Wynter, addressed the rally. It was amazing and exciting. We gave greetings on behalf of Australian workers and received a loud cheer. You really feel the power of the working class, Coral Wynter told Green Left Weekly. We had a great banner and as I think we were the only organised group of foreigners we were interviewed by three television stations Telesur, VTV and Vive and had numerous radio interviews. We danced and skipped along the route from La Bandera to Puente Laguno. Unfortunately President Hugo Chavez didnt speak, but the day before he announced another 30% increase in the minimum wage. It was a great day!
Nuclear analyst Mycle Schneider noted in Climate Change and Nuclear Power, published in April 2000 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, that countries and regions with a high reliance on nuclear power also tend to have high greenhouse gas emissions. Following is an extract from his findings.
Hau Abut (I am Woman)
Compilation CD for the women of East Timor
Available in Australia for $25.00 (postage included) from <info@afap.org>
Compilation CD for the women of East Timor
Available in Australia for $25.00 (postage included) from <info@afap.org>
The Hungry Mile and Other Poems
By Ernest Antony
republished by the Maritime Union of Australia, 2008
64 pages, $20 (pb)
Available from the MUA, Level 2, 365 Sussex Street, Sydney 2000
By Ernest Antony
republished by the Maritime Union of Australia, 2008
64 pages, $20 (pb)
Available from the MUA, Level 2, 365 Sussex Street, Sydney 2000
The Seventh Well
By Fred Wander, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman
WW Norton & Co, 2008
160 pages, $37.95 (hb)
By Fred Wander, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman
WW Norton & Co, 2008
160 pages, $37.95 (hb)
We have just attended a massive march of workers for May Day in Caracas, Coral Wynter, a coordinator of the current Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Networks brigade to Venezuela, told Green Left Weekly.
Nuclear power I
David Walters (Write On, GLW #747) repeats the nuclear industry's misinformation regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear power can only reduce CO2 released from electricity generation. There are five classes of greenhouse gases
On live TV, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed the law on April 30 that re-nationalised the giant Sidor steelworks — majority owned by Argentinean-based Ternium corporation.
US Professor John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and teaches political economy and environmental sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature and Ecology Against Capitalism.
He was a
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