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This past week Queenslanders have shown their rock-solid support for maintaining public ownership of our railways, roads, forests and motorways. From Ron Monaghan
QCU General Secretary
www.qldnotforsale.org.au
Watch our march video here from the major Brisbane rally on 9 March.
Thousands of you rallied around Queensland. More than 90% of Queenslanders do not agree with the sell-off.
Events took [...]

Anti-privatization protests at Tonghua Steel
One the biggest events in recent Chinese labor history was the workers’ protest at the Liaoning Iron and Steel Plants.
In this issue CLNT draws attention to yet another protest that also involved state workers – the Tonghua Steel protest of 2009 in Changchun City, Jilin Province in northeast China that [...]

YUDHOYONO RECEIVES AN AUSTRALIAN HONOUR – THE EAST TIMORESE RECEIVE NOTHING!

Australian human rights activists are outraged that the Australian Government has bestowed Australia’s highest civilian honour, the Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a ceremony at Government House, Canberra.
The award was made in recognition of Dr [...]

John Bellamy Foster
‘How is it that we could be facing a crisis of empire, of imperialism, of war, of conflict internationally, we could be facing an environmental crisis on a scale that threatens the whole planet as we know it, and we could be facing at the same time being in the midst of the [...]

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
For those concerned with the fate of the earth, the time has come to face facts: not simply the dire reality of climate change but also the pressing need for social-system change.
The failure to arrive at a world climate agreement in [...]

The United States Misreads Brazil’s World Policy
By Immanuel Wallerstein
When the United States first realized circa 1970 that its hegemonic dominance was being threatened by the growing economic (and hence geopolitical) strength of western Europe and Japan, it changed its posture, seeking to prevent western Europe and Japan from taking too independent a position in world [...]

Organizing Comes Before Mobilizing
By Grace Lee Boggs
‘Last week veteran Detroit activist and TV producer Ron Scott shared his thoughts on the recent massive demonstrations in support of the Jena 6.
Emphasizing the distinction between organizing and mobilizing, he reminded us that the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began fifty-two years ago on December 1, [...]

Australian Left Renewal Conference – from global crisis to green future – May 29-30, 2010, University of Technology Sydney Building 2 Broadway, Sydney
Democratic responses to the social and ecological failure of global capitalism.
Alliances between environmentalists and unionists that show the way forward.
The Left and its strategic direction 12 Workshops and 4 Participatory Forums.
International speakers – [...]

For some time NT activists have been opposed to a Nuclear dump.
I was informed about this struggle in a 2007 DVD by Tara Jones
“Nowhere here in the middle”. She interviews the aboriginal people affected.
She interviews Dr Helen Caldicott:
“Its supreme scientific arrogance to say that we’ll find a way to store radioactive waste safely for [...]