Issue #2109

The Guardian • Issue #2109 • July 29, 2024

Ark Tribe rally Sydney 2009 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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Issue #2109

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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Construction worker with safety helmet and gear on. Issue #2109

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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Communist Party of Australia Issue #2109

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 (ICAP) Issue #2109

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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Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez at a public ACFS meeting in Boorloo/Perth Issue #2109

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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Sunshine Coast members descended upon the Big Pineapple. Issue #2109

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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State Public servants walked out to attend a rally at the Supreme Court Gardens in Perth Issue #2109

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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Issue #2109

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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Issue #2109

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 Issue #2109

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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Mulan Wind Farm – located approximately 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang. Issue #2109

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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Farm worker India Issue #2109

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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Hourglass with US dollar running out of time. Issue #2109

‘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 Issue #2109

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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Quill and ink . Issue #2109

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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Book cover of Issue #2109

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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Cover of Issue #2109

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 column logo Issue #2109

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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Rally for Palestine held on Saturday 22 June Boorloo/Perth. Issue #2109

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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