An open letter to
Prime Minister Rudd, Federal Water Minister Wong,
South Australian Premier Rann and Water Minister Maywald.
You are invited to address the people who gather, in support of the River Murray, on the steps of Parliament House, Adelaide, on Friday August 1st at 11.30am.
read more »How Capitalism Made the World Food Crisis
a Politics in the Pub forum, presented by Socialist Alliance
According to the UN nearly a billion people are starving or suffering from malnutrition & the recent price rises have added another 100 million people to this category.
Meanwhile, the annual cost of dealing with over-eating and obesity in the rich countries is estimated at US$120 billion a year.
If the money spend on commercial advertising were cut by just 1/4 US$250 billion a year would be freed up to feed people
Is there a way out of this madness?
You are invited to a public forum with our guest speakers
Dick Nichols, Socialist Alliance national convenor and author of Environment, Capitalism, Socialism
a representative from Reclaim the Food Chain, Friends of the Earth
Thursday July 10, 7pm.
read more »The Environmental Activists’ Conference “Climate Emergency – No More Business as Usual” will be held from Friday 10 October to Saturday 11 October 2008. The conference is designed to provide an open forum for education, ideas, solidarity and campaigning perspectives on how to avert the global warming threat. It aims to initiate wide-ranging discussion that will include exchanges between climate scientists and educators, activists and community organisations, environmental groups and concerned individuals.
read more »The combined impact of the state budget and the dreadful WorkCover laws marks June 5, 2008 as a dark day for SA, according to SA Unions Secretary, Janet Giles.
“Mike Rann proudly describes himself as being a “pro business Premier”, but he fort to add “anti worker” to the equation”, Ms Giles says.
“This budget reinforces the business windfall announced last year, and comes at a time when vulnerable injured workers are being stripped of entitlements.
read more »Five years after they were sent to Iraq to support the US imperialist invasion, Australian combat troops are being withdrawn.
This has been made possible by the widespread and continuing opposition to the Iraq invasion by the people of Australia. In the prelude to the illegal actions of the US imperialists and their Australian puppet, now former Prime Minister, John Howard the largest ever anti-war demonstrations took place, eclipsing even those of the Vietnam war period.
read more »Sara Moss & Susan Austin
The Socialist Alliance is joining the growing number of people and organisations campaigning for a big increase in all pensions and other welfare benefits. It is outrageous that people on welfare were almost totally ignored in the recent federal budget.
PM Kevin Rudd says he wants to look after Aussie battlers, but he’s forcing a whole sector of the population to live in poverty while giving tax cuts to even high-income earners and keeping a major budget surplus aside.
read more »Oil prices have hit a record high above $US127 a barrel on fresh worries about global supplies.
US light sweet crude jumped to $US127.82 a barrel, ignoring a forecast from producers’ cartel OPEC this week that the world will need less oil in 2008.
read more »Anna Pha
Neo-liberal policies have failed dismally. The policies of deregulation and corporate welfare have impacted on most areas of the economy to the detriment of ordinary people.
The financial sector is in crisis; water usage has been mismanaged; river systems are drying up; housing is becoming unaffordable for many; ships are queuing to load the tonnes of resources being thoughtlessly ripped out of the ground; private health and educations systems propped up to the neglect of the superior public systems; vital rail services slashed; privatised electricity prices sky-rocketing with blackouts more common; public transport systems underfunded, short of stock and unreliable; climate change neglected; and so the list goes.
read more »CAPITALISM: Financial crisis,
failed policies, failed system
Anna Pha
Financial crisis, recession, poverty, wars, climate change, homelessness, health care and education cuts, privatisation, unemployment — these are just some of the outcomes of a system that is failing millions of people around the world. It is a system based on greed, on the growth and accumulation of wealth by a small minority at the expense of the majority.
It has failed to meet the social and economic needs of millions of people, while thieving their natural resources and the true value of their labour.
read more »So this week we commemorate ANZAC day. Those who are supportive say they are not glorifying war, but marking and remembering the sacrifice of the brave soldiers who died there. The peace movement shouldn’t attack the role of the soldiers, neither then nor as regards Vietnam nor in Iraq and Afghanistan now.
read more »A Mahammed Alatar film
An outstanding documentary about the harsh Israeli army occupation, and the history of the Israeli settlement growth in the Palestinian territories of West Bank and Gaza. The film goes on to further explain Israel’s plan to grab as much land as possible, describing withparticular care the route and arrangement of Israel’s so-called “security wall”, the 420 mile long wall snaking through Palestinian settlements.
Saturday 10th May, 2008
7pm, South West Community Centre
Delicious meal also available from 6:30
171 Sturt Street, Adelaide
Entry donation to Green Left Weekly $8, $5conc
Phone: 8231 6982, 0403 679 742
. read more »Residents of Port Adelaide are reeling at the number and scale of plans for their district being made way above their heads by governments and corporations. The Port Waterfront Redevelopment is starting to dominate the inner harbour; presenting a concrete wall of high-priced apartments to other inhabitants of the still mostly working class suburbs nearby. And now comes the news that an eight metre-high “acoustic barrier” is to be erected, removing about four kilometres of public waterfront access and fortifying a precinct for strategic waterfront “defence” (war) industries.
read more »In November 2007, Friends of the Earth Adelaide and the Goodwood Goodfood Co-op launched a homegrown fruit and vegetable exchange in the inner south-western suburbs of Adelaide. It’s a concept that has been practised formally and informally in communities probably since time began. The basic format of this particular ‘Urban Orchard’ was inspired by the Urban Orchard project initiated by Melbourne’s CERES community environment park.
read more »Actor and playwright Ned Manning grew up in rural Australia. He married an Aboriginal woman and had two children who grew up identifying strongly with the indigenous community. But it wasn’t until later in life that he learned the story of the stolen generation.
read more »In 2005, Victorian farmer Geoffrey Carracher was devastated to find his GE-free farm contaminated by GE seed. Independent testing commissioned by Greenpeace confirmed GE contamination in a canola seed variety sold around Australia.
Multinational companies such as Bayer and Monsanto are turning a blind eye to cases of genetically engineered (GE) crop contamination on a global scale, according to an international report released this week.
read more »On Sunday, 3 February, a conference of three socialist groups, Socialist Action Group, International Socialist Organisation, and Solidarity voted to merge their organisations into a united group to be called Solidarity.
The merger represents a significant step forward in re-unifying the key groups of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia and the emergence of a new national group committed to building the left and the social movements in Australia.
The merger brings together the members of three groups that have played an important role in the fight against the Howard government – in the fight against the cuts to Higher Education and the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism, against One Nation, on the side of militant unionism in the MUA dispute, the fight for refugee rights, against scapegoating Muslims and against the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
read more »Start: 7 Feb 2008 – 6:15pm
Filmed 9 years ago in the run-up to the Sydney Olympics, John Pilger and Alan Lowery look at what’s behind the curtain of hype and glamour. Australia’s Aborigines are still exculded, impoverished and mistreated – while their part in the brilliant history of Australia’s sports successes goes virtually unrecognized. The passing of time only makes this film more poignant.
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