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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

Venezuela’s Revolution Faces Crucial Battles
by Federico Fuentes
‘Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution
loom on the horizon in Venezuela.
The campaign for the September 26 National Assembly elections will be a
crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez
and the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition.
But these battles, part of the class struggle between the poor [...]

‘Movement for a Democratic Mixed Economy’ are a network of progressives in dialogue with each other – working to contest the dominant economic paradigm – and to promote an alternative which is democratic; involving mixed forms of ownership.
‘We believe there is a substantial role for the public sector. We accommodate many positions ranging from the [...]

Abbott tells corporate leaders that WorkChoices was not an economic mistake, not all bad, but politically a mistake.
WorkChoices was necessary as regulation for unlimited freedom for profit making and undermining unions.
Turnbull was to hide WorkChoices 2. With Abbott the contest is back in the open.
But the Murdoch press weekly has propaganda “Abbott [...]

Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass
by Michael A. Lebowitz
[Presentation of “El Socialismo no Cae del Cielo: Un Neuvo Comienzo” at the 2010 Havana Book Fair, 18 February 2010.]
‘There’s an old saying that if you don’t know where you want to go, any road
will take you there. As I’ve said on many occasions, this [...]