The Australian Workers Union has many members in the aluminium refining and smelting industry, which accounted for 45.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2006 (7.9% of Australia聮s total). Obviously, such a major greenhouse polluter 聴 the dirtiest for every dollar of value added 聴 has to be radically restructured if carbon emissions are to be cut to sustainable levels.
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Farmers in Liverpool Plains, south of Tamworth, are taking on BHP Billiton鈥檚 drive for black gold.
Colombia is a 鈥渘arco-state that applies and puts into practice state terrorism that affects the region鈥, insisted Nicaragua鈥檚 ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Denis Moncada, on July 24.
A survey of unionists in the heart of Australia鈥檚 coal regions shows strong sentiment for action to stop climate change. The poll, commissioned by the Australian Manufacturing Workers鈥 Union (AMWU), surveyed 400 AMWU members in the Bowen Basin, Gippsland, Newcastle and the Hunter Valley.
A 150-strong community meeting on July 29 called on the NSW government to urgently re-open the region鈥檚 only maternity unit, at Blue Mountains Hospital in Katoomba.
The truck drivers鈥 national transport shutdown came to an end on July 30, with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) failing to endorse the action and calling on frustrated drivers to instead lobby the federal government.
Below is a July 20 statement from the Sudanese Communist Party, which is waging a struggle for democracy and justice against the current regime. It is reprinted from .
Twenty people discussed the possibilities and challenges for Cuba, socialism and the environment following a screening of the documentary Power of Community 鈥 How Cuba Survived Peak Oil at Gecko House in Currumbin on July 27.
Remember the 鈥渨ealth effect鈥? Rapidly rising housing and share prices made people feel wealthy and so they borrowed big-time and became big-time spenders, and this supposedly makes for an endless economic boom. Just about every capitalist economist was singing from that cheery song sheet 鈥 until recently.
At a 鈥淩ally for the River鈥 on August 1, some 2000 people gathered on the steps of state parliament to voice concerns about the plight of the Murray River鈥檚 Lower Lakes and the lack of action by state and federal politicians to address the crisis.
New laws were passed through the French Senate on July 23, which will see the virtual dismantling of the law that limits the working week for employees to 35 hours, which was introduced by the Socialist Party (SP) government in 1998.
WOLLONGONG 聴 More than 200 workers rallied on July 30 as part of actions across NSW in support of all public sector workers currently negotiating with the NSW government over pay and conditions.
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