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Six years – and twelve deaths – after Rudd government reopened refugee detention centres on Manus and Nauru, refugee activists are marching around the country to say enough is enough! Background: Bring down the global fences
Capital City rallies
Adelaide
Saturday 20 July, 2pm – Parliament House
www.facebook.com/events/330265937653944
Brisbane
Saturday 20 July, 2pm, Queens
Chicago has a proud working-class history and this year elected six socialists to its City Council. At a time when social moments are on the rise and interest in socialist ideas in the United States is at all time high, the “Windy City” was the perfect venue for the annual
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The investigation into the death of 36-year-old Wiradjuri woman Rebecca Maher concluded on July 5 at the Newcastle Coroner’s Court.
Rebecca’s family and supporters, who together with the Indigenous Social Justice Association and Fighting In Resistance Equally had gathered that day at nearby Newcastle Civic Park, were left shaken by
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Up to 2000 waterfront workers at DP World container terminals across Australia went on strike to oppose the multinational company’s attacks on working conditions. The strikes began on July 8 and continued through the week, with workers in Brisbane, Fremantle and Sydney striking for 48 hours and for 96 hours
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As the Titanic sank in 1912, the wealthy were given safety on lifeboats while the poor were left to die, locked in the sinking ship.
Today, the countries of the Global North are taking a similar approach to the climate crisis.
Going full steam ahead, countries such as Australia continue
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Nothing captures the attitude of the European Union (EU) and its main member states towards the Catalan struggle for self-determination better than this well-known verse:
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
