Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalization
and Conspiracy"
Globalization is an attempt to extend corporate monopoly control
over the whole globe. Over every national economy. Over every
local economy Over every life.
OCTOBER 9, 2002, VANCOUVER: Dr. Michael Parenti, one of North
America's leading radical writers on U.S. imperialism and
interventionism, fascism, democracy and the media, spoke to
several hundred people at St. Andrews Wesley Church in
Vancouver.
In
an outline of their industrial relations policy prior to the 2007
federal election, the ALP stated that "Labor does not believe in
separate industrial rules and regulations for different industries".
This was a response to the fact that the Howard government had created
a specialist union-busting body - the Australian
Nearly all women activists arrested on May Day in Tehran released
Except for Jelveh Javaheri, a women’s rights activist, all the women
arrested in Tehran’s Laleh Park on May Day have now been released on
bail. Around 30 women were set free pending further proceedings by the
Iranian regime’s legal authorities.
May Day women 1
Jelveh Javaheri is a postgraduate sociology student and a member of
the One Million Signatures Campaign. Over the past few years the
Iranian regime’s security forces have arrested Jelveh Javaheri several
times. She nevertheless continues to campaign for the women of Iran to
have equal rights with men.
May Day 2
In addition to Jelveh Javaheri there are around 30 other activists and
workers detained in Evin prison. We will continue to campaign until
all those detained on May Day, and all other workers and activists,
are released from the dungeons of the Iranian regime.
An injury to one is an injury to all!
Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
1 June 2009
Photos from Change for Equality.
For more information on the May Day arrests see the special page.
Gaza Defence Committee &
Latin American HouseInvite you to our solidarity fiesta VIVA PALESTINA!
61 years of resistance and solidarity
Saturday, June 6, 4pm Casa Latinoamericana (Latin American House),
Hut 47, Addison Rd Community Centre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville All welcome All monies raised go towards supporting Palestine
During
Israel's recent massacre in Gaza against the Palestinian people, people
all across Australia and Latin American, together with a number of
Latin American governments, demonstrated their ongoing support for
Palestine’s 61 year struggle against occupation of its homeland.
Palestine
solidarity activists and the Latin American community in Sydney invite
everyone to come along and once again show our solidarity with
Palestine and find out more about how you can help.
Latin
American and Palestinian food and music, video showing of footage from
Gaza, plus presentations on what is occurring in Palestine today and
more.
For more information: Fred 0423 538 265 or Wilfredo 0424 533 153
In preparation for May Day 2009, a number of independent
Iranian unions and labour rights organizations came together in a May Day
Organizing Committee to plan a public rally in Laleh Park, Tehran. The
Committee included
According to the latest
news by The Sanandaj’s May Day Organizing Committee, the 6 arrested labour
activists at the May Day event in Sanandaj were released on heavy bails (26
million toman) on May 2, 2009. They were: Shabbou Khalili (Golriz); Shiva
Sobhani; Farzam Abdi; Foaad Keykhosravi; Babak Bajlani; Mansour Karimian.These activists were treated
aggressively during their detention. Ms Shabbou and Ms Shiva were handcuffed and
blindfolded throughout their custody until they were released on bail. These
activists may face further charges for their participation in May Day event.
Labour activist in Sanandaj last year were persecuted and sentenced to jail
terms and/or flogging sentences.
Workers were also attacked
and arrested during smaller May Day events in Tehran and other cities. More updates on this
will be issued soon.
Mass arrest of participants of the May Day celebration
in Tehran!
According to the reports from Tehran, police
forces and under covers attacked the rally that was held in Waterfront Square
of Laleh Park in Tehran on May 1st. A large number of demonstrators were
arrested.
The police guards and the under covers
aggressively attacked the participants and arrested a large number of them.
Mayam Mohseni, Behrooz Khabaz, Jafar Azimzadeh, Alireza Saghafi, are amongst
the detainees. Also, Mohsen Saghafi was beaten and takeninto the police car when he objected the
guards for beating his father. All of the detainees were taken to police
station in Palestine square - Tehran.
Coordinating Committee to Help Form
Workers’ Organizations
The May first celebration ceremony took
place at AmiriehPark at 5:00 pm today.In less than fifteen
minutes, the participants were attacked and brutally beaten by guards and
under-covers. Twelve demonstrators were arrested. Mansour Karimi, Shiva
Sobhani, Leila Khalili, and Kourosh Bakhshandeh were amongst the arrestees.
The security guards attacked the gathering
with tear gas and sprays. The demonstrators, including women and children, were
ruthlessly beaten.
Updates on this news will follow later.
Coordinating Committee to Help Form
Workers’ Organizations
THE NSW GOVERNMENT HAS BACKED A REPORT WHICH CALLS FOR THE SELL-OFF OF OUR POWER
The report says that state-owned electricity
assets, such as power generators and customer support services, should
be either sold outright or leased to private companies.
If
the NSW Government backs the sell off it could mean that our power ends
up in the hands of Big Business overseas in Hong Kong or China.
Electricity prices have skyrocketed to an all-time high under
privatisation in Victoria with consumers facing a 17 per cent price
hike from 1 January 2008.
Can your family or business afford to pay more for your electricity?
Less Reliable Services
In Auckland, New Zealand - a privatised power system delivered a
series of failures that caused the entire network to collapse for two
months.
What would rolling blackouts mean for your family or business?
Jobs Sent Offshore
When Hong-Kong based TRU-Energy purchased electricity assests in
Victoria more than 500 customers service jobs were sent offshore to
India.
Do you want to dial another country to log problems and seek assistance if you are experiencing a power crisis?
Climate Change
Private energy companies in Victoria have put profits ahead of
reducing greenhouse gas emissions and stopping climate change by
encouraging households to use more energy than they actually need.
Latest news: Iemma, Costa gone but Rees continues privatisation madness
The union movement, environmental groups and community groups are strongly opposed to electricity privatisation.
The Greens are committed to keeping the electricity industry in
public hands and to exposing the myth that NSW needs a new baseload
power station, and have been working with these groups on the campaign
to stop the sale.
1. The victory: sell-off legislation fails to pass the Upper House
Thursday 28 August began with the optimistic news that Michael
Costa’s sell-off legislation was doomed. Six ALP members of the NSW
Upper House signed a pledge to cross the floor and join Greens and
Coalition MPs and one Christian Democrat to vote down the bill.
Rather than suffering the inevitable defeat, the government pulled
the plug on the debate before the final vote. The Greens and the
Coalition did not have the numbers to defeat the adjournment because
the six anti-privatisation Labor MPs felt bound to vote with the
government on this procedural motion.
Then-Treasurer Michael Costa’s sell-off had not been authorised by parliament.
World At A Crossroads: Fighting for socialism in the 21st Century
Easter 2009, April 10-12, Sydney Venue: Sydney Girls HighSchool
World At A Crossroads is a conference that brings together hundreds
of socialists, progressive activists and Marxist thinkers from around
Australia, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and North America in dozens of
panel presentations and workshops dealing with the urgent questions
that confront us all: war, imperialism, food security, racism, workers'
rights, sexism, the media and culture. Feature sessions and streams will include:
* The capitalist economic crisis: Putting people and planet before corporate profits
* Stopping global warming: Social change, not climate change
* Emerging alternatives to capitalism and war: The Venezuelan revolution and anti-imperialist rebellion in Latin America
* Organising to fight for a better world: Building mass movements, alliances and left parties
Most of all, however, this conference will be about creating
solutions. The rising revolutionary movements in Latin America, which
are posing the most serious challenge to global capitalist destruction
for decades, are full of inspiration and lessons for people fighting
for justice everywhere. Those struggles, and the alternative social
systems they are creating, will be a big feature of this conference
with the participation of guest speakers from Latin America.
The many struggles of the people in the Asia-Pacific region against
imperialist exploitation and state repression, and for genuine
democracy and social justice will be addressed by guest speakers from
left parties, trade unions and social movements in the Philippines,
Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Timor Leste, amongst others.
Organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Resistance.
Sponsored by Green Left Weekly.
About the DSP, a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance
Since
the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in the USSR and Eastern Europe,
capitalism's ideologists and media mouthpieces have happily written off
socialism. The Democratic Socialist Perspective has a different view:
it argues that the need for a radical reorganisation of society has
never been more urgent.
The DSP seeks to build a mass revolutionary socialist party that is
capable of organising the Australian working class to bring into being
a socialist society through replacing the political rule of the
capitalist class with a government of the working class.
About Resistance
Past generations have stood up
against the great injustices of their time: slavery, Apartheid,
fascism, and war. They envisioned the world as it should be, not just
as it was, and through their struggles achieved things once thought
impossible. Now is not the time to despair. We need to get angry, get
active and get organised.
Resistance is a socialist youth organisation. We look at not only
what is wrong, but why - and how we can change it. The injustices in
the world today are fundamentally caused by capitalism. We believe that
the only viable alternative is socialism - the democratic control of
society and economy by ordinary people, not corporations.
In
an outline of their industrial relations policy prior to the 2007
federal election, the ALP stated that "Labor does not believe in
separate industrial rules and regulations for different industries".
This was a response to the fact that the Howard government had created
a specialist union-busting body - the Australian 
20 May 2009
1. The victory: sell-off legislation fails to pass the Upper House
