Public discussion during Newcastle鈥檚 council election campaign has shifted to the left.
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Protests are continuing against the Victorian state government聮s planned desalination plant at Wonthaggi.
Ambre Energy聮s proposed coal-to-oil project at Felton, a farming community 30 kilometres from Toowoomba, would be a disaster for the local community and environment, according to the newly formed Friends of Felton group.
Addressing an assembly of petroleum workers in Zulia on September 5, Venezuelan labour minister Roberto Hernandez explained that the 聯only way to guarantee the advance of the revolution is with the unity of the working class聰.
On September 1, Bolivia聮s National Electoral Court (CNE) ruled that it would not allow the proposed December 7 referendum on a new constitution to go ahead.
鈥淭he news that nine Australian special forces soldiers have been wounded in Afghanistan 鈥 the largest number of casualties since the Vietnam War 鈥 reminds us that, as in any occupation, there will be resistance鈥, Alex Bainbridge, a spokesperson for Sydney Stop the War Coalition (STWC), told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on September 4.
聯Construction unions across Australia are running the Rights On Site campaign against the union-bashing ABCC [Australian Building and Construction Commission].
聯The state Labor government聮s failure to honor its promise to pay $55.4 million in reparations to Indigenous stolen wages claimants [is] incomprehensible聰, Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) general secretary Ron Monaghan said in an August 19 statement.
On September 2, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declared a state of emergency in response to the political crisis brought about by ongoing demonstrations and government buildings organised by the People聮s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which has called on Sundaravej to resign.
In the lead-up to last year聮s federal election, the then-Labor opposition worked furiously to narrow the policy difference between itself and the Howard government.
BRISBANE 聴 聰The Sri Lankan government is a racist regime which has conducted a decades-long reign of terror against the Tamil people聰, Dr Brian Senewiratne, a Queensland medical specialist of Sinhala origin, said at a film night featuring My Daughter the Terrorist on August 30.
The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott & the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
By Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenshaw
Lawrence Hill Books, 2007
293 pages, $23.95 (pb)
By Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenshaw
Lawrence Hill Books, 2007
293 pages, $23.95 (pb)
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