Professor Bill Mitchell’s power-point presentation at The Northern Institute CDU yesterday on how government’s can move towards full employment with the Job Guarantee.
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Struggles for climate justice
Linking local and global struggles for climate justice by Geoff Evans Is Australia inevitably locked into fossil fuel-intensive economic future just because we have huge quantities of high quality, accessible coal? In the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, the home of the world’s largest coal export port, Newcastle, coalitions of residents, farmers, scientists, trade [...]
Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe
Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe By Dick Nichols The class struggle may be more advanced in Europe, but I sorely miss what we have created in the Socialist Alliance, as should become clear later in this talk. My aim is to sketch the present phase of the class struggle in Europe, assess the [...]
Socialism…
Australian Options magazine no 67 out now editorial: Whither Capitalism; Whither Socialism? ‘AO founder Elliott Johnston posed “the question of socialism, however named” just before his recent death. The hundreds who attended his memorial service heard of a tireless campaigner for justice and social change on which to build a better world. Far from being [...]
On Roxby
Rethink Roxby: Our Uranium fuelled Fukashima Adelaide Voices, Opinion by David Noonan, Independent Environment Campaigner. Australia uranium fuelled the Fukashima nuclear disaster yet our governments have just approved the world’s largest uranium project in BHP Billiton’s proposed new open pit mine at Roxby Downs. “We can confirm that Australian obligated nuclear material was at the [...]
Doctors against uranium sales to India
The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) has called on the Government and the ALP to lead the world towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, rather than risking nuclear weapons proliferation by selling Australian uranium to nuclear-armed India. MAPW Vice-President Dr Margaret Beavis said in a 15 November media release: “We cannot guarantee the [...]
On carbon markets
Unravelling Carbon Markets by Larry Lohmann Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register -The Crisis and the Left -Lohmann spoke to Ed Lewis [...]
Elliott Johnston speaks
Elliott Johnston’s title was ‘the rule of law’ but he soon turned to capitalism and politics and cites Don Dunstan and supports self-determination for aboriginal people, the environment and workers rights and more… Public Forum on the 5 October, 2004, to a packed Elder Hall University of Adelaide. Organised by Australian Options with the support [...]
Secure jobs
Secure jobs for a better future in NT The operators of a major gas processing plant planned for near Darwin must ensure they employ local workers in secure jobs to ensure a strong future for the region’s economy, ACTU President Ged Kearney will tell a function in Darwin today. Ms Kearney will address the APHEDA [...]
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