The Business Council of Australia (BCA) 鈥 representative of the 100 largest companies in Australia 鈥 has threatened that its members will be 鈥渇orced鈥 to relocate offshore if the federal government鈥檚 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is implemented.
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Peruvian President Alan Garcia suffered a major political setback on August 22 after Congress voted 66-29 in favour of repealing controversial presidential decrees that would have facilitated the privatisation of communal indigenous lands.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has finalised the first agreement in a new round of collective bargaining in universities. The University of Ballarat agreement gives a 10.9% pay increase over 15 months.
The NSW Greens have called for moratorium on the issuing of water licenses in the Murray-Darling Basin until a thorough independent study of the cumulative impact of mining on water resources in the basin has been made.
Educational feudalism
Julia Gillard sure wants to take the neoliberal stick to public education and parents.
Firstly, impoverished parents who find it difficult to send their children to school every day will become even more impoverished by
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has intervened in a land dispute in the Sierra de Perija region, near the country聮s north-western border with Colombia, where the Yukpa indigenous people have occupied 14 large estates to demand legal title to their ancestral lands.
Four thousand people turned out for a campaign rally for independent presidential candidate and long-time anti-corporate and consumer rights activist, Ralph Nader in Denver, according to an August 29 CQpolitics.com report.
Afghanistan lives in fear of US-sponsored warlords.
On August 27, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the end of negotiations with former owners Ternium over the nationalisation of the Sidor steel factory, stating that the government would 聯take over all the companies that it has here聰, insisting Ternium 聯can leave聰.
The following is a heavily abridged talk by Mario Masuko at the Zimbabwe-Swaziland Solidarity Conference held in South Africa, August 10鈥11, 2008. Masuko is president of Peoples United Democratic Movement (Pudemo).
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