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Oil industry mayhem

Rural Impact!: What to expect from the gas industry & how to address it
Documentary by Aurielle Andhara & Bill Sitkin
Two Cent Films & Crestone Media
crestonemedia@gmail.com

Save Fitzroy Legal Service!

MELBOURNE — The Fitzroy Legal Service (FLS) has had it’s funding slashed by $160,000.

The politics of food

When 72-year-olds take their shirts off in anger on a cold winter’s day in Melbourne, you know something is wrong. Seriously wrong.

Change, hope and slippery politicians

On June 5, I joined a suburban World Environment Day campaigning stall organised by Resistance, a socialist youth group in Australia.

On the box

Yossi & Jagger — Two young male officers in the Israeli army are deeply in love with each other, but both have different perceptions about their relationship. SBS, Saturday, June 14, 1.20am. Embassy Days: Part 2 — Follows the confrontations in

Malaysia: Government 'declares war', socialists fight back

“The announcement by the Prime Minister of increasing the price of fuel by 78 sen and increasing diesel by RM1 added with the increase in electricity as well lifting the cap on chicken prices tantamounts to a declaration of war against the ordinary people of Malaysia”, S.Arutchelvan, the secretary general of the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) declared in a June 5 statement.
Waving the Aboriginal flag at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy 1974

The proud history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

In 1972 at the peak of Aboriginal political militancy in Australia, two Italian brothers, Allessandro and Fabio Cavadini, made a film called Ningla a-Na about the "Aboriginal Embassy" demonstrations in Sydney and Canberra that year.

Public transport: tinkering not enough

Hasn’t the Victorian state government noticed that climate change is speeding up alarmingly and that transport is the fastest growing cause of greenhouse emissions in Australia?

Rudd vindicates anti-war movement — bring all the troops home

On June 2, while announcing the withdrawal of 550 Australian combat troops from Iraq, PM Kevin Rudd told parliament that all the arguments justifying the troop deployment in the first place were lies. This vindicates the anti-war movement’s position since the 2003 invasion.

The trouble with Indy

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Story by George Lucas
With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett & Karen Allen

Pakistan: Thousands demonstrate against price hikes

Over 3000 activists and supporters of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) took part in rally in Lahore on June 6 against the ongoing neoliberal policies of the current Pakistan People’s Party government.

Qld socialists discuss reach out opportunities

“Under the jackboot of Howard’s Northern Territory intervention, the great majority of Aboriginal people supported Rudd in the last election. Now they feel betrayed by the Rudd Labor government”, commented Sam Watson, the Socialist Alliance’s national Indigenous affairs spokesperson, at its Queensland state conference on May 31.