The Guardian • Issue #2109 • July 29, 2024
Issue #2109
RABID UNION BASHERS
The assault on the construction division of the CFMEU is the first blow in a planned attack on the trade union movement as a whole...
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EDITORIAL
Unions are in the news a lot lately. Our front page this week and last week details the ongoing campaign of demonisation against the very...
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Ensuring intimidation
The Morrison government’s Ensuring Integrity Bill failed to pass through Parliament in 2017 and 2019. Unlike the Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation, it was...
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Vale comrade Nguyen Phu Trong
Condolences It is with great sorrow that we received the sad news of the passing of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the...
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INSTITUTO CUBANO DE AMISTAD CON LOS PUEBLOS
July 19th, 2024 MESSAGE FROM ICAP TO MEMBERS OF THE “FROM AUSTRALIA TO CUBA WITH LOVE” SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Dear friends, I would like to extend...
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Welcome to Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society Perth welcomed Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez at a public meeting in Boorloo/Perth with a full house at Trades Hall....
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The Big ‘Palestine’-apple
The Sunshine Coast Branch has been up to its regular antics being a beacon of progress, amongst the morass of reaction that dominates the Sunshine...
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WA Public Servants take action for pay and conditions
On 4 July 2024, about 400 State Public servants walked out to attend a rally at the Supreme Court Gardens in Perth in the first...
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DINGO
This week’s target of US aggression since the end of WW2 is the Middle East 1956-58: The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the United States was...
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Too little concern for the global food crisis
Around the world children are starving to death. This is the harsh reality told by Oxfam’s Global Report on Food Crises (April 2024), which estimates...
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PEACE NOTES
If you know anyone in their sixties, ask them if they remember World War I. Chances are they do, but not because they were there....
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Hope from a greener China
The World Economic Forum’ (WEF) Global Risks Report rates the climate crisis as the primary risk to humanity. They see climate disruption as the main...
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The world’s poor suffer and die as 1.5ºC breached
Extreme weather events have had a tragic impact on the poor. This global killer affected nearly 6.3 billion people, 78 per cent of the world’s...
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‘De-dollarisation’ and US capitalism
United States Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, is, in her own words, ‘worried.’ What is keeping her awake is the growing fear that the...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: Postal workers are involved in the nation’s largest contract battle, as the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) fights for an improved collective bargaining agreement...
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LETTERS
Cost of Living Crisis, Cooperative Supermarkets and capitalism Dear Editor, A recent report on cooperative supermarkets on the ABC found that people could reduce their...
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Who’s Minding the Farm
Rethinking industrialised farming in Australia Australia’s system of industrialised mass food production requires a total rethink. Patrice Newell, a farmer from NSW, argues that agriculture...
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Angela Davis in Queensland
The Queensland branches of the Communist Party of Australia conducted a successful and fruitful National Education Class this June in Nambour. Besides analysing the Communist...
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HALF THE SKY
Julia Clare Marino “I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man; I will not … If he [Abbott] wants to know...
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Israel steps up attacks
The terror that Israel has unleashed on the population of Gaza grows. The suffering of the people grows. Starvation and disease haunt the land. Israeli...
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