The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples is inviting all friends of Cuba to join the sixth International Brigade of Volunteer Work and Solidarity with Cuba this May Day.
The brigade runs from April 22 to May 6 this year. It aims to provide a wider understanding of Cuban reality and carry out volunteer work to support agricultural development in Cuba.
The 15-day program includes visits to historical, economic, cultural and social places in Havana and the provinces of Artemisa and Pinar del Rio.
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If you have just begun studying, welcome to university. If you鈥檝e been looking through the pamphlets and advertising material for your campus of choice, you鈥檝e probably been led to believe that university largely revolves around sitting on lawns on nice days laughing with attractive young people.
If you鈥檝e been watching too many American films, you might be expecting wild parties and crazy weekends. Or if you鈥檙e academically minded, you might just be expecting to broaden your horizons with new and exotic ideas.
On February 14, hundreds of Aboriginal people, many young ones, and non-Aboriginal people gathered at the fence where 17-year-old TJ Hickey was fatally wounded in Waterloo in February 2004. A police vehicle driven by a Redfern officer rammed TJ鈥檚 bike.
He was impaled on the fence and died in hospital the next day. There has been a corrupt coronial inquest, and a cover-up by the NSW government and Redfern police, and continuous protests. But eight years later there is still no justice for the young Aboriginal man and his family.
The released the statement below on February 18.
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The NSW Socialist Alliance condemns the latest state electoral funding reform bill as a direct attack on democratic rights and collective organising in the state.
More than 400 people crowded into a lecture theatre at the University of Technology on February 17 to attend a public forum, 鈥淒on鈥檛 shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy鈥.
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Speakers at the forum included socialist historian Humphrey McQueen, Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, London-based human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson and Christine Assange, the mother of Julian Assange.
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A string of banks, airlines, car manufacturers and aluminium smelters 鈥 all big corporations that have profited for years while extorting billions of dollars in public subsidies 鈥 have spat in the face of our society.
They have begun huge sackings of workers, even though Australia supposedly escaped the worst of capitalism鈥檚 global economic crisis. The big banks have posted record profits, but they refuse to pass on interest rate cuts to families struggling to keep up with huge home mortgages.
Liberal backbenchers will have a 鈥渃onscience vote鈥 when a proposal for marriage equality is put to parliament. This puts the equality campaign closer to victory in Australia than it has ever been before.
Members of the shadow cabinet, including junior frontbenchers, will still be required to maintain the party position, which will be decided unilaterally by Liberal leader Tony Abbott, and therefore bound to vote against marriage equality.
The federal immigration department has drawn sharp criticism from refugee advocacy groups and Amnesty International for denying that refugee children continue to be held in detention.
After Perth refugee activists visited the remote Leonora detention centre and reports emerged that children had been locked up for more than 12 months, the immigration department鈥檚 media manager, Sandi Logan, said on Twitter: 鈥淢isinformation about kids in detention centres is unhelpful, disingenuous.
鈥淎s you know, kids are NOT detained in centres.鈥
Now, I'll admit that my idea of poetry is watching Essendon鈥檚 Dyson Heppell, the AFL鈥檚 2011 Rising Star award winner, float across half back, helping repel another opposition attack with his silky skills. But I like to think I know quality when I see it.
In September last year, the coal seam gas (CSG) industry launched a multimillion dollar advertising campaign called . It is sponsored by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) 鈥 the peak national body for oil and gas exploration 鈥 which represents companies such as Shell, Santos, Origin Energy, British Gas, AGL, PetroChina and ConocoPhillips.
After recent threats to thousands of jobs in the aluminium, car and banking industries, 91自拍论坛 Weekly spoke to Geelong Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden about strategies to fight the job cuts.
鈥淎lcoa says are in danger, but there are 3500 more hanging off that,鈥 Gooden told GLW.
鈥淚f they close Point Henry [aluminium] smelter, it will hit the rolled products, and then the companies that use the rolled products.
Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 media empire does not have a TV network like Fox News in Australia 鈥 at least not yet. But he does have the sole national newspaper, The Australian, which is busy running a Fox News-style smear campaign against the Australian Greens.
Anxious at the Greens鈥 growing electoral success, the paper said in a 2010 that it planned to have the Greens 鈥渄estroyed鈥.
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