On September 23, about 200 hospital administration workers in far-north Queensland were the first to strike as part of a state-wide campaign to improve wages in Queensland Health.
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To lobby or not to lobby? Fortunately for the Australian union movement our forebears in the union leaderships didn聮t spend much time trying to answer this question. Campaigns were more direct and more successful than today聮s so-called strategies of 聯boxing smart聰 and 聯keeping your powder dry聰.
I was a participant in the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network brigade to Venezuela in December 2006. I was lucky enough to squeeze into the packed presidential palace compound when the official national elections results confirmed an overwhelming victory for socialist President Hugo Chavez.
The autumn
Wears the dress
Of thorns
To hide the colours
Of the helplessness
Of the thorns
The tears
Of the sky
The raindrops
Wears the dress
Of the colours
Of the rainbows
To hide the hurt
Of the tears
Of the sky
The
On the fateful evening of September 18, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke pulled together a closed-door meeting to discuss the rapidly unfolding crisis plaguing the financial system, congressional leaders feigned shock and horror at its severity.
On September 19, Nepal聮s finance minister and member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Dr Baburam Bhattarai announced the first budget of the Republic of Nepal.
In even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being divided and conquered. Turns in the class struggle might have surprised Walter Rodney, the political economist whose 1972 classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa provided detailed critiques of corporate looting.
Whether or not US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson聮s rescue scheme works, one thing is already crystal clear: The capitalist system has failed spectacularly. The following editorial was published by the US Socialist Worker on September 25.
Engels: A Revolutionary Life
By John Green
Artery Publications, 2008
347 pages, 拢10 (pb)
Available from http://www.arterypublications.co.uk/
Most people know that Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was the lifelong friend and collaborator of Karl
Mahmoud Darwish, the iconic Palestinian poet passed away on 9 August in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67 following unsuccessful heart bypass surgery. "Identity Card", was published in his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Olives published in
Washington鈥檚 next war is already on the go. 鈥淐lassified orders鈥, according to the September 11 New York Times, were passed by US President George Bush in July. And the target is not 鈥渁xis of evil鈥-famed Iran. It is Washington鈥檚 close ally in the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥, Pakistan.
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