With support from the South Australian Labor government and the federal ALP, pilot work is starting on the desalination plant that is to supply fresh water for BHP Billiton聮s planned expansion of its copper-gold-uranium mine at Olympic Dam.
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Forty-nine workers at Coghlan and Russell, a car components factory in Geelong, have been stood down after the company called in receivers.
On April 5, the workers discovered that their superannuation had not been paid for more than eight months. When the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) confronted management, it was told that the company had a plan and would talk to the union in a couple of days.
Sydney city council is preparing a vicious crackdown on the ability to distribute newspapers such as 91自拍论坛 Weekly and leaflets advertising political rallies and events.
With 80 million inhabitants, West Bengal is the fourth most populous state in India. It has been ruled by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front (LF) coalition for three decades. This government, however, has regularly used police repression against workers and peasants to defend big-business interests.
As the regime of President Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt faces a growing crisis of legitimacy, expressed by protests, boycotts and industrial strikes, the government has pushed through a referendum to amend the constitution and enshrine the country聮s police-state laws. On March 25, Amnesty International said the amendments will cause 聯the greatest erosion of rights in 26 years聰 in Egypt.
On April 15, Ecuador voted overwhelmingly to ratify President Rafael Correa鈥檚 proposal to convoke a Constituent Assembly with the power to re-write the constitution with the intention of weakening the stranglehold on the country of the traditional wealthy elite.
Returning once again to Venezuela 鈥 having last spent four months here in 2005 鈥 I recalled a refrain that had been constantly repeated by Venezuelans: 鈥淎fter we re-elect Chavez in 2006, the real revolution will begin.鈥 It took very little time for me to realise exactly what they meant.
An authoritative opinion poll for the Scotsman newspaper indicates a strong increase in support for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in the run-up to the Scottish Parliament elections on May 3. The April 6 Scottish Socialist Voice reported that 鈥渋n both the constituency and regional list vote, 5 per cent of Scots voters plan to vote Scottish Socialist鈥, according to the ICM poll. This represents a 3% rise in the regional vote and a 4% increase in the constituency ballot 鈥 the biggest increase in support in the previous month for any political party in Scotland.
Kurt Vonnegut聮s life and art were shaped by personal tragedies. His mother committed suicide. His sister and her husband died within days of each other, leaving three children. One of his sons suffered from schizophrenia.
John Brown, Abolitionist
By David S. Reynolds
Vintage Books, 2006
578 pages, $34.95 (pb)
By David S. Reynolds
Vintage Books, 2006
578 pages, $34.95 (pb)
Nabarlek is one of the bands synonymous with Indigenous rock in this country today. Rounding up their Queensland tour at the Cairns Civic Theatre on March 10, they brought the house down. The audience was dancing in the aisles in the second set when this nine-piece group from Manmoyi in Western Arnhemland got the place rocking.
Dances in Deep Shadows: Britain聮s Clandestine War in Russia 1917-20
By Michael Occleshaw
Constable, 2006
360 pages, US
By Michael Occleshaw
Constable, 2006
360 pages, US
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