The article below is an abridged editorial from US progressive magazine Against The Current.
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The decade opened with the attacks of September 11, 2001 may have symbolically closed with the elite US death-squad assassination of Osama bin Laden.
But the turmoil of these post-9/11 years, notably the self-inflicted wounds of US capitalism, have exceeded the terrorist mastermind鈥檚 wildest dreams.
There are the wars that George W Bush, with the support of congressional Democrats, launched in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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When Liberal leader Tony Abbott promised in the last federal election campaign that the notorious anti-worker 鈥淲ork Choices鈥 laws of the former Howard Liberal-National government 鈥渄ead, buried and cremated鈥 very few people believed him.
Resistance is a co-sponsor of the in Melbourne over September 30 to October 4. 91自拍论坛 Weekly asked some Resistance members about their thoughts on this major event.
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Hannah Reardon-Smith, Brisbane
To me, events such as the Climate Change Social Change conference are essential for reigniting my enthusiasm and my energy for the good (but long) fight.
Australian Solicitor-General Stephen Gageler, who defended the government鈥檚 Malaysia solution in the High Court, confirmed the court鈥檚 decision 鈥渃ast doubt鈥 on all offshore processing, immigration minister Chris Bowen said on September 4.
British-based economist, activist and writer Derek Wall is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and is the author of several books on ecology and politics.
Wall will speak via video link at the activist conference in Melbourne over September 30 to October 3. He maintains the ecosocialist blog .
Emissions rise under carbon price
Labor proposes a carbon price plan to 鈥渢ackle climate change鈥 and create what it calls a 鈥渃lean energy future鈥 by an implied decrease in greenhouse gas pollution.
However the Australian government-endorsed Treasury modelling report, 鈥淪trong growth, low pollution鈥, shows that under the carbon price plan, Australia鈥檚 domestic greenhouse gas pollution will increase to 621 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent in 2020, bigger than now or in 2000.
Rodney Augustine is from the Nyulnyu and Jabirrjabirr people. He is a spokesperson for the group and is a member of the 鈥淜eep the Kimberley鈥 group, both based in Melbourne.
He will speak at the activist conference in Melbourne, over September 30 to October 3.
Nicole Watson, a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney鈥檚 , gave the address below at the Sydney launch of Walk With Us: Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice at Gleebooks, Sydney, on September 1.
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At the outset I would like to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the land, the Gadigal people.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will take place in Perth at the end of next month. It is a gathering of the government leaders of the 54 Commonwealth countries.
The Commonwealth today has direct links to the earlier structures of the British Empire in which colonialists of a previous era used to boast that the 鈥渟un never sets鈥 on the places where they were killing and oppressing people.
One hundred and twenty people packed out Gleebooks in Sydney on September 1 for the launch of Walk with Us 鈥 the latest book from the Aboriginal solidarity group .
The book documents the detrimental impact of the Northern Territory intervention on Aboriginal people and features a call out from Aboriginal elders to Australians, asking them to walk with them in their quest for justice.
About 300 activists protested in Melbourne on September 9 against chocolate company Max Brenner鈥檚 sponsorship of elite Israeli military units, as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israeli apartheid in Palestine.
Indigenous rights activist Robbie Thorpe told the rally: 鈥淓very struggle we see is about human life, their struggle is the same as ours because this is illegally occupied land too.鈥
Trade unionist Dave Kerin said: 鈥淭he only right solution is democratic, equal representation of all inhabitants of Palestine.鈥
British-based multinational corporation Serco Group is bidding for more contracts with Australian federal and state governments. Worth 拢4.3 billion ($6.6 billion), Serco markets itself as a 鈥渟olution to government鈥, which takes over government services and runs them for profit.
It has run Australia鈥檚 disastrous and increasingly unstable refugee detention centres since 2009, owns two Australian super-prisons and took over Western Australia鈥檚 court security and custodial services in June.
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