… Go to ArticleBehind the report, take a look at daily life in one of the better detention camps and see if it would keep you feeling happy, hopeful and fulfilled.
Month: January 2016
Summer Interviews
… FREE Public Transport for Seniors and Pensioners
The Greens today committed free off-peak bus transport for seniors and pensioners in Brisbane. Based on the long-running Perth scheme, the $15 million per year plan encourages seniors and pensioners to use Brisbane’s bus system at off-peak times, lessening crowding in peak times.… Go to Article
Zionists given a free pass
Hans Lovejoy, editor of the Byron Shire Echo, posted on Facebook today that a local Israeli business owner is calling him an antisemite for publishing letters critical of Israel and is contemplating boycotting The Echo.… Go to Article
West Papuans Testify
WBT posts this excerpt from ‘Merdeka and the Morning Star: civil resistance in West Papua’, by Jason MacLeod which has just been published by UQ Press.… Go to Article
Government is what we can’t do ourselves
The welfare and the policeman
Said you've got to understand
We'll give them what you can't give
Teach them how to really live
- Archie Roach, 'Took the children away'
I can tell you a story.… Go to Article
Who benefits from attacks on the construction workers’ union?
The construction workers’ union has been under attack since before the de-registration of the BLF in the 1980s. The latest Royal Commission in to Trade Unions is the formal part of the latest attack.… Go to Article
Bash the Borders Gig
Invasion Day 2016
MUA: News from the Waterfront
No. 26 – Friday January 8, 2016
Queensland Branch Committee Meeting
A SUCCESSFUL Branch Committee meeting was held in the Brisbane Union Rooms on January 7 and 8, 2016.… Go to Article
The Man Who Knew Too Much
An illustrated interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Isac Babel / Flickr
The House of Zion
We shall return the nightingale told me when we met on a hill that nightingales still live there in our dreams and that among the yearning hills and people, there is a place for us -Sanarjou Yawman – فيروز – سنرجع يوما (sung by Fairfous)
Publisher’s Note: In 2015, I asked Palestinian author, Ghada Karmi, the following question:
After the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004, you went to Ramallah as a consultant to the Palestinian Authority which had policed its own people opposing the settlements all over the West Bank and entered into deals with the Americans and with Israel.… Go to Article
Turkey’s first communist mayor a success
[Publisher’s Note: As Turkey stands on the brink of civil war, a small town demonstrates how important it is to get back to grass roots politics.]… Go to Article
Justice for Denzel! Remember Dundalee!
A big part of aboriginal struggle for justice is tied up with colonisation, with the settler state, that is the contradiction faced by indigenous people everywhere.… Go to Article