A coalition of Newcastle business groups has launched a new campaign called 鈥渇ix our city鈥.
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Pro-choice activists are intensifying the campaign against Queensland鈥檚 anti-abortion laws and demanding charges laid against a young Cairns couple to be dropped.
The Camp Florentine forest blockade in southwest Tasmania, which has just passed its third winter, continues to protect ancient wet Eucalypt and rainforests. Since November 2006, the community group Still Wild Still Threatened has blockaded the area.
German elections and the strength of the left Duroyan Fertl's analysis of German elections (GLW #809) missed two issues. Firstly, election results for the Green Party (Thuringia: 6.2%, Saarland: 5.9%, Saxony: 6.4%). The Greens have established themselves around the 6%-mark crossing the 5% hurdle that guarantees seats in parliament.
As the Australian economy begins its 鈥渞ecovery鈥, economic and social indicators show the recession has disproportionately affected working people and the poor. The rich are just getting richer.
In 91自拍论坛 Weekly #811, we said that the renewable energy company Solar Systems had collapsed 鈥渄ue to its major investor, TRUenergy, withdrawing its investment鈥. TRUenergy wrote to us to point out that this statement was wrong.
With seven boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted in September, Australia鈥檚 Christmas Island detention centre is fast filling up. It now holds 677 detainees.
Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, was an important contributor to Marxist theory with his idea of 鈥渉egemony鈥.
鈥淔ifteen families have dominated Honduras for decades, and they are the ones that carried out the coup. Today we face a very bloody time鈥, Honduran activist Santiago Reyes told a 40-strong forum on independence organised by the Latin American Social Forum on September 19.
In Hitler's Priests, Kevin Spicer meticulously shows at least 180 Catholic priests actively supported the Nazis, including spying on other clergymen for the fascists. Beyond them, there was a vast network of sympathetic priests and bishops who quietly supported the Reich.
鈥淭he country is weary of the war. What I鈥檓 trying to do at this point is to make sure that ... we have got a coherent strategy that can work鈥, United States President Barack Obama told David Letterman鈥檚 Late Show on September 21.
The article below is by Physicians for a National Health Program, a research and educational organisation of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance in the United States. The study referred to can be found at .
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