Un nuevo horizonte polĂtico ya ha amanecido en Australia: una democracia multipolar. Durante dĂ©cadas, el bipartidismo ha reinado en el parlamento australiano, y durante los años más recientes parecĂa que nunca llegarĂa al paĂs el fenĂłmeno del declive en el voto tradicional que derrotĂł a los partidos histĂłricos de Europa, tan profundas eran las trincheras polĂticas, tan estables eran las pautas electorales.
Continue reading “La democracia multipolar amanezca en Australia”Riches for Australian miner equals misery for Thai villagers
Australian mining company Kingsgate Consolidated has started the year with a spring in its step thanks to a clause buried in the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
Continue reading “Riches for Australian miner equals misery for Thai villagers”Uncovering the Triassic at Longreef, Sydney
How can we comprehend the world as it was 245,000,000 years ago, in the Triassic age?
Continue reading “Uncovering the Triassic at Longreef, Sydney”Australia Urged to Condemn Human Rights Horror in the Philippines
When Marklen Maojo Maga was playing basketball with some friends, plain-clothes security agents seized the thirty-nine year old union organiser and forced him into an unmarked van, accusing him of possessing firearms and hand-grenades. Maga has just dropped off his son to school, he protested; and why, his union asked, would he be carrying explosives while playing basketball? Continue reading “Australia Urged to Condemn Human Rights Horror in the Philippines”
Australian unions seek to “balance the power of the powerful” in historic election
On 18 May, Australians will cast their votes in an election that has workers’ rights at centre-stage. In what has been declared by the social-democratic opposition Labor Party as a “referendum on wages”, the proposed policies on workplace relations have not been more divergent in over a decade. Continue reading “Australian unions seek to “balance the power of the powerful” in historic election”
Sydney’s Green Bans: the worker boycotts that saved the city
Faced with a construction boom in the 1970’s, front-line neighbourhoods and unionised construction workers in Sydney formed a radical coalition to protect their communities. Continue reading “Sydney’s Green Bans: the worker boycotts that saved the city”
Galicia Mobilises for Wages, Pensions, and Rights on May Day (News Report)
Vigo, Spain.
Stagnant wages, precarious employment, insufficient pensions, and gender inequality, these are the daily realities which belie Spain’s much-touted economic recovery, and these are the problems against which trade unions rallied in yesterday’s International Workers’ Day demonstrations. Continue reading “Galicia Mobilises for Wages, Pensions, and Rights on May Day (News Report)”
Galicia Cries SOS for Public Health
In Galicia, the conservative regional government has embarked upon a healthcare reform path which critics – organised around the platform SOS Sanidade Publica – condemn as a strategy for “turning healthcare into just another commodity“. Continue reading “Galicia Cries SOS for Public Health”
La Sauceda: A Town Wiped off the Map by Fascism
It is July 1936, Spain, and a long-planned military conspiracy aims to dislodge from power a democratically elected government. Aircraft fly in mercenaries from abroad, troops are mobilised across the country, and a war begins. Continue reading “La Sauceda: A Town Wiped off the Map by Fascism”
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