Tipping point in New Zealand politics at the grassroots: The Residents Action Movement

Tipping point in New Zealand politics at the grassroots: The Residents Action Movement

The Residents Action Movement (or RAM) is a left wing local government electoral ticket in the Auckland Region of New Zealand that is in the process of becoming a national-level political party to contest the 2008 elections. RAM can be characterised...

Continue to rest of post... »

John Bellamy Foster on the global financial crisis: ‘Nobody knows where the toxic debt is buried and how much there is’

John Bellamy Foster on the global financial crisis: ‘Nobody knows where the toxic debt is buried and how much there is’

John Bellamy Foster is an American journalist, sociologist, essayist and socialist, as well as editor of the Monthly Review, a prominent political journal foundered by the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy in the 1940s.Foster is a Professor of Sociology...

Continue to rest of post... »

Dick Nichols:Radical social action to stop climate change

Dick Nichols:Radical social action to stop climate change

The Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney on the April 11/13 weekend was engineered to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change. But did it succeed in its attempted aggregation of activists from the red and the green? To...

Continue to rest of post... »

Michael Karadjis: Is Kosova allowed to declare independence?

Michael Karadjis: Is Kosova allowed to declare independence?

"The Kosovar Albanians were an oppressed people in the old Yugoslavia, and much more so in Serbia following the collapse of the Yugoslav federation in 1989-90. Kosova had a per capita income one quarter that of Serbia; Albanians constituted only one...

Continue to rest of post... »

Graham Matthews: is this the beginning of the end of Work Choices?

Graham Matthews: is this the beginning of the end of Work Choices?

This week the Labor government introduced legislation into federal parliament which it assures us is to be the first step in the dismantling of Work Choices .Work Choices you may recall was the Howard governments hated industrial legislation and the...

Continue to rest of post... »

David Spratt : Climate CODE RED!

David Spratt : Climate CODE RED!

David Spratt -- along with Phillip Sutton -- has authored a sharp review of the Climate change crisis that is bearing down on all of us: Climate Code Red. This interview with David Spratt explores the main arguments in this report (published by Friends...

Continue to rest of post... »

Invasion Day 2008

Invasion Day 2008

January 26th is celebrated in Australia as "Australia Day" but in indigenous communities around the country many communities mark it as "Invasion Day."This is an audio montage of the annual Brisbane Invasion Day rally which gathered at state parliament...

Continue to rest of post... »

Kamala Emanuel: Climate Change/Social Change Conference

Kamala Emanuel: Climate Change/Social Change Conference

Kamala Emanuel -as well as being the environment campaigns coordinator for the Socialist Alliance is a key organiser for the upcoming Climate Change /Social Change Conference set for April 11-13 in Sydney.In this interview Kamala (pictured left)discusses...

Continue to rest of post... »