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Stories of Aboriginal survival

Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country
Edited by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2007
$27.95 (pb)

Support the Triton 11: MUA 鈥 Here to Stay!

When the armed customs boat, the Triton, docked at Darwin聮s Fort Hill Wharf on January 27, nine of the ship聮s crew refused to disembark.

Join the May Day brigade to revolutionary Venezuela!

The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) is organising a 2008 May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela for trade unionists and all other people interested in seeing first-hand the unfolding revolution in that country.

Peru: Free trade deal an Andean tragedy

On December 4, US President George Bush was delighted to announce that the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (dubbed 聯PeruFTA聰) had finally cleared the Congress. Since late 2005, when PeruFTA was approved by Peru, the Bush administration has campaigned relentlessly to secure the free trade deal聮s endorsement by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

Protests to cancel debt, support development

Hundreds of people took protest action in North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, Central Sulewesi, East and West Java and Jogjakarta on January 15-17 to demand cancellation of Indonesia聮s foreign debt, nationalisation of the mining industries and for strengthening the economy through a nationwide industrialisation.

Bosses push AWAs, unions debate Labor government

As employers continue to push individual Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs), some union leaders have urged the labour movement to press the new Labor government of PM Kevin Rudd to move more quickly and decisively against the former government鈥檚 Work Choices policy.

No black-out, no whitewash: Reopen the TJ inquiry!

Four years ago, 17-year-old Aboriginal teenage Thomas 聯TJ聰 Hickey was impaled on a metal-spiked fence in Sydney聮s inner-city Waterloo suburb after his bicycle was rammed by a police vehicle. Proper medical practices were not followed by the police and TJ died in hospital the next day, February 15. If proper practices had been followed, TJ would probably be alive today.

Iraq: Bush admits puppet army could 'disintegrate'

聯General [David] Petraeus has warned that too fast a drawdown [of US troops] could result in the disintegration of the Iraqi security forces聰, US President George Bush declared in his January 28 聯state of the union聰 speech to the US Congress.

Indonesia: Riau farmers fight for their rights

This is a statement by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas). One of the main organisations that founded Papernas is the People聮s Democratic Party (PRD), which played a leading role in the mass movement that overthrew Suharto in 1998. The PRD is building Papernas to continue the struggle against the neoliberal anti-poor policies that have been continued by post-Suharto governments.

Tasmanian firefighters escalate industrial action

The United Firefighters Union (UFU) of Australia Tasmanian branch plans to escalate industrial action on February 11 if their demands are not met. Members are calling for a fair resolution to a superannuation dispute from last year and for a proper pay increase. They also want an independent review into workload and other problems at the dispatch and communications centre.

Venezuela: Combatting food shortages

鈥淲e lack everything鈥 Frances Buitrago, a small shopkeeper in the city of Merida, commented to 91自拍论坛 Weekly. 鈥淭here isn鈥檛 any milk, rice, mayonnaise, oil, wheat, or butter.鈥

Suharto 鈥 the Australian elite's favourite mass murderer

Genocidal mass murderer and former Indonesian dictator Suharto died in hospital in Jakarta on January 27, aged 86, never having faced justice for the millions of people he killed or the billions of dollars he stole during his three decades in power. While Suharto may be gone, the hypocrisy of his rich-country supporters 聴 especially Australia 聴 lives on.