Like all people across Australia, Socialist Alliance members have been devastated by the Victorian bushfire tragedy, the greatest disaster in peace-time Australian history.
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The longest strike in Anglo-Canadian history, at Toronto鈥檚 York University, has been suppressed by anti-union, legislation after a three-month long picket line.
Europe has all but exploded into the new year with a growing fightback against the policies that caused economic crisis across the continent. Millions of protesters are beginning to take on those responsible for the capitalist meltdown.
This column is usually devoted to an appeal for the Green left Weekly fighting fund but this week this space will be used to join in with the many trade unions, other groups and individuals who are rising in a huge display of solidarity to help the communities devastated by the unprecedented bushfires in Victoria.
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The capitalist media are constantly conveying the message of doom and gloom.
Their reason is to instill fear into the workforce so as to try to prevent attempts by the trade unions to secure wage increases, and
Palestine solidarity activists in Sydney have launched a campaign targeting Max Brenner Chocolates, a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, as part of the growing international boycott Israel movement.
Nothing like the inferno that swept across Victoria last weekend has ever occurred in Australia before.
The unfolding Latin American revolution and the call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build 鈥渟ocialism of the 21st century鈥 will be big features of the 鈥淲orld at a Crossroads鈥 conference to be held in Sydney over the Easter weekend.
On the weekend of February 7-8, over 600 delegates and as many observers attended the founding conference of France鈥檚 New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), held at la Plaine-Saint-Denis in the working class suburbs to the north of Paris.
The move to the right by the Socialist Party (PS), which drew the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Greens along in its wake, has been so clearly against the wishes of the support base of these parties that a significant vacuum in French politics has opened up to the left.
The following is reprinted from the introduction to What Resistance Stands For. For more information, and to find out how to get involved with your local Resistance branch, visit .
Mike Crook says he became radicalised by seeing the way construction and mining companies treated their workforce, especially in regard to on-the-job safety.
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