Australia
Australia: Launch of rebel union, Unite, hits headlines
The launch in Melbourne at the week-end of ’Unite’ – a new union for fast food and retail workers – has received huge publicity in Australia.
Month: May 2006
América
Chile: Es necesario frenar la brutalidad de la policía uniformada y luchar junto a los secundarios
Las movilizaciones de los estudiantes a desnudado al nuevo gobierno y a la presidenta Bachelet. Todos hemos podido ver la represión violenta contra los jóvenes, la brutalidad ya no conoce límites por parte de carabineros.
Economy
World Economy: Peak Oil
The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.
East Timor
East Timor: Foreign occupation is to protect profits
Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.
Germany
Germany: Five million watch German Trotskyist
"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"
Germany
Germany: “Marx is Muss”
On the policies and practice of Linksruck (the German equivalent of the British Socialist Workers’ Party)
Brazil
Brazil: Workers fight back against poverty and state violence in the favellas
Eyewitness account of how capitalism brings tragedy and violence to Brazil’s poor
América
Bolivia: El presidente Evo Morales anunció el 1° de mayo un decreto que “nacionalizó” los recursos del petróleo y el gas (los hidrocarburos), enviando una ola de repercusiones a todo el mundo
Traducción por Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 30 de Mayo 2006
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Unite against sectarianism
A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Elections and the menace of war
Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.