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Turkish socialist: 'Join the fight for the working class'

Turan Ertekin, an activist in the Turkish community and Socialist Alliance member, came to Australia in 1980.

Environmental crisis — sustainable solutions

The Climate Emergency – No More Business as Usual conference, held in Adelaide on October 10-11, included 18 workshops canvassing many issues around the politics of the environment: from food production and peak oil, to theories of political change and educational programming. The following article is based on discussion arising from one of these workshops titled “Sustainable solutions”. The presenters in the workshop were Bev Hall from the Australia Cuba Friendship Society, Andrew Hall from the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network and Margaret Rhode, a member of Urban Ecology and resident of the Christie Walk EcoCity development in Adelaide.

Not so super

There’s one positive aspect of global financial chaos. It throws into question the Australian model of funding our retirement—compulsory superannuation.

Write On: letters to the editor

Fudging workers' rights Graham Matthews takes former justice Murray Wilcox to task for "fudging" the issue in his October 3 discussion paper on the ABCC (GLW #771). This is perhaps a little harsh — his job is precisely to fudge, rather than

Community unites for sustainable transport

More than 1000 protesters crammed into the entrance of Flinders Street Station on October 26 for the Community Rally for Sustainable Public Transport, and to oppose the Victorian state government’s planned East-West road tunnel and extensions. These would result in massive destruction of homes and shift more trucks and commuter traffic into the suburbs.

Socialist versus capitalist logic

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture & Health
Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
Monthly Review Press, 2007
390 pages, US$22.95
Available from The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
By Tim Harford
Little Brown, 2008
264 pages, $35

NSW teachers: protect salaries and conditions

Teachers in New South Wales public schools are committed to an ongoing campaign of legal, political and industrial action to secure salary justice and maintain rights and conditions that have been achieved through past struggles.

Victorian water campaigners unite

Victoria’s three largest community water campaign groups have united to campaign for sustainable alternatives to the state government’s new water infrastructure projects.

Sri Lanka: War on Tamils escalates

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in recent months as the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) attempts to capture areas of northern Sri Lanka held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group that has fought for 30 years for self-determination for the Tamil people.

Construction collapse in Canberra

On October 26, part of the roof of a multi-story Canberra building collapsed. The building is under construction in the city centre.

Corporate greed destroying human culture

Aboriginal rock art found on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula is in danger of destruction. Friends of Australian Rock Art (FARA) released photographs showing the full extent of damage for the first time on October 25.

Tamil struggle: 'More solidarity needed'

On October 30, 100 people attended a public forum and film screening of My Daughter the Terrorist, at the University of Melbourne.