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Stop the power sell-off once and for all

The dumping or resignation of half a dozen ministers from the NSW Labor government over the last fortnight 鈥 brought on by internal warfare over the cabinet鈥檚 refusal to scrap its electricity privatisation plan 鈥 has still not convinced the new premier and ALP power-brokers to drop the plan altogether.

Papua New Guinea: Australian mining companies destructive role

The below statement is from the Mineral Policy Institute, .

91自拍论坛 Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: "Things will have to change"

Bruno, a supporter of 91自拍论坛 Weekly, said to me last week that the political situation today reminded him of a famous quote from a story about a Sicilian prince at the time Italy鈥檚 feudal principalities were being challenged by Giuseppe Garibaldi鈥檚 鈥淩edshirts鈥:

Venezuela: New coup plot exposed, US ambassador expelled

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the US ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country within 72 hours on September 11.

Too hot for Hollywood

Hollywood聮s Censor: Joseph I. Breen & The Production Code Administration
By Thomas Doherty
Columbia University Press, 2007
427 pages, $49.95 (hb)

The Wall Street 'socialists' save the rich again

The Wall Street 聯socialists聰 are at it again 聴 with another big-government takeover of privately owned firms, aimed at protecting the rich by extorting money from working people.

Write On: Letters to the editor

Workplace 'restructures' In my workplace we have been suffering restructuring for the whole time I have been there, which is three years now. We have had the closing down of sites, redundancies, increased workloads, unfair rosters and restrictions

Who's afraid of building a vanguard party?

Building The Revolutionary Party: Jim Percy Selected Writings 1980-1987
Resistance Books, 2008
212 pages, $20
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Medicare funding essential for abortion rights

Women seeking a termination of their pregnancy during the second trimester, and beyond, may be denied access to Medicare funding if Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett is successful in his bid to axe funding for abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy. Currently, women seeking an abortion are covered under the Medicare scheme up until 26 weeks of pregnancy.

Strike signals broader media crisis

The Fairfax Media workers鈥 strike on August 28-31 signalled growing troubles in the Australian media industry.

Sri Lanka: Airforce bombs civilian settlement

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The ABCC has to go

Eight hundred unionists and supporters protested outside the Geelong Magistrates鈥 Court on September 12, as Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) official Noel Washington appeared, charged with refusing to cooperate with the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC).