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On Roxby

By on December 11, 2011 in Aboriginal, Environmental crisis

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 [...]

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Doctors against uranium sales to India

By on November 30, 2011 in Environmental crisis

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 [...]

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On carbon markets

By on November 28, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis

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 [...]

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Elliott Johnston speaks

By on November 20, 2011 in Aboriginal, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Labour Law, Public Policy, Social justice, US politics, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

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 [...]

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Occupy Wall Street not Palestine

By on October 17, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! Palestinian BDS National Committee The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian civil society coalition struggling for Palestinian rights, is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new [...]

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Options 66

By on October 12, 2011 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis

The magazine Australian Options no 66 Spring 2011 has good articles on: why we have to get out of Afghanistan and the costs of war; critiques of Gillard’s Clean Energy policies – a capital agenda, ecological modernisation, and limits and alternatives on climate change; unions greens and markets;education in the aboriginal world;national competition policy; the [...]

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Rosewarne: Clean Energy is a capital agenda

By on October 12, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis

The Labor government’s Clean Energy Policy: a capital agenda by Stuart Rosewarne ‘The Clean Energy Future Policy, along with various proposed supplementary measures not incorporated into the resolutions of the multi-party talks, represents a considerable win for Australia’s emissions-intensive industries while promising no real abatement of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, as the Treasury modelling [...]

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Stilwell on tax reform

By on October 11, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

I support a campaign to pressure the Gillard Government to include in tax reform – land and resources taxes, estate duties and on international financial transactions…for starters. The priority reform areas for the tax and transfer system need to be driven by goals of economic efficiency, social justice and ecological sustainability. by Professor Frank Stilwell [...]

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Environmentalism and capitalism

By on September 26, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster: ‘What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism’ (exclusive excerpt) August 1, 2011 — Monthly Review Press has kindly given permission to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to publish “The growth imperative of capitalism”, an exclusive excerpt from Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster’s just released What every [...]

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