Climate change has moved to the centre of Australian politics, and Rudd Labor’s climate opportunism is graphically on display. Having tried to lure Turnbull’s Liberals into voting for his CPRS by cutting the carbon price and offering to postpone it for a year, the Environment Minister Penny Wong is back to wooing The Greens.
On Thursday May 21 Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin announced her intention to use Intervention powers to permanently acquire the Alice Springs town camps. Her move unleashed an avalanche of racism against Tangentyre Council and the residents of the camps.
The recession has brought a renewed interest in Marxist explanations of economic crisis. Rick Kuhn’s book is timely in this context. Published last year, it is the product of many years of study into the life and ideas of Polish-German socialist Henryk Grossman.
It’s an indication of how nervous the ruling class is about the prospect of economic collapse that Rudd the financial conservative has become Rudd the $42 billion man.
FOR MANY western commentators, China is the saviour of the ailing world economy. However the hellish pace of China's growth is being achieved at enormous human and environmental cost. The government in Beijing is indifferent to how its market reforms are destroying lives. But the very forces it has unleashed are likely to undermine the boom itself.
NEW FIGURES showing a dramatic drop in union membership in 2007 highlight the challenges facing the labour movement as it attempts to rebuild after the Howard years.
An update from the Sydney G20 Solidarity Collective
IRAN IS being rocked by massive people power demonstrations-the biggest since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the hated Shah. Night after night, hundreds of thousands of people have poured into the streets of Tehran and other cities to join protests against the rigged election win of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Thousands have rallied around the country calling for funding renewable energy as an alternative to the governments polluter friendly emissions trading scheme, there were climate protests in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Cairns, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wollongong.
There is a new popular power sweeping Iran. In one of the biggest mass demonstrations since the toppling of the US-backed Shah in 1979, some one million people descended onto the streets of the capital Tehran to protest at an election widely seen as rigged.
One hundred and fifty thousand people attended the Hong Kong candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate those killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989. They came to pay tribute to the bravery of those who stared down the soldiers and tanks.
Thousands of people have marched in Melbourne today (Sunday May 31) against racist attacks on people of Indian origin living in Melbourne. There have also been attacks in Sydney, last week Indian student, Rajesh Kumar, was left with burns to 30% of his body after a petrol bomb was thrown into his apartment.
Solidarity meets in cities all around the country. Check here for details of the latest upcoming meetings.
Solidarity is hosting conferences in Sydney and Melbourne "Solidarity09: A world in crisis" to discuss the major issues facing our world—the greatest economic meltdown since the great depression, the more and more urgent threat of climate change, wars across the Middle East, as well as where the hope for change lies.
Join the rally, march and concert in Sydney
Saturday June 20
10:30am Belmore Park, Eddy avenue, Haymarket (opposite Central station)
March to the Block in Redfern for family and culture day concert
The climate action movement is organising major demonstrations in capital cities on June 13 calling on the Rudd government to go back to the drawing board on its carbon trading scheme and start to take serious action to reduce emissions. Get involved in helping build the rally in your city.
Israel's declaration of a "ceasefire" does not mean its war against the people of Gaza is over. Our protests must continue until Israel ends all its military operations and ends its blockade, which has turned Gaza into a prison camp for its 1.5 million people. Details here.
Review: The Reader
Directed by Stephen Daldry, In cinemas now
Review: The Combination
Directed by David Field, In cinemas now
ARTICLES 
ISO PUBLISHING| Publishers of Solidarity | ||
| Phone: Fax: Post: |
+61 2 9211 2600 +61 2 9211 6155 PO Box A338 Sydney South NSW Australia 1235 |
|
VIEW FULL CONTENTS OF 