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The death of 30 asylum seekers, whose overloaded wooden boat crashed on the rocks of Christmas Island and sank, speaks volumes about immigration controls. This 21st century barbarism needs to be abolished, just as the slave trade was. In the past year 5000 people made their way to Australia in flimsy boats via Indonesia. Most
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Cory Doctorow, Tor and craphound.com, 2010 The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Byron Clark ‘For The Win’ is possibly one of 2010’s best works of fiction, at least for those readers who enjoy books that deal with big issues. Paraphrasing other writers in the genre, author Cory Doctorow has said that “good science fiction
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“Trade is only a small part of these negotiations”, said Bill Rosenberg, CTU Policy Director and Economist, who will be the CTU observer. “In fact most of the proposed agreement covers areas like foreign investment rules, empowering foreign companies to sue our government, opening our services to more international competition, our right to regulate, pharmaceutical
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The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Joel Cosgrove (Wellington Workers Party branch organiser and former president of Victoria University Students’ Association). The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill is making its way through parliament to make student union membership voluntary. Most people will be totally unaware of the bill and what it means, and
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All the registered parties got the following email a few weeks ago: Dear Parties, I am an 18 year old female. I would really like to be interested in politics, but I don’t know anything about it! I graduated high school 1 year ago, and for a few years political representitives have making sure I
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Tens of thousands of members and supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine gathered on December 11, 2010, in Gaza City’s Palestine Stadium, marking the forty-third anniversary of the PFLP’s founding in a mass rally. Palestinians from all sectors – men and women, elderly and children, workers and farmers, attended the
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Every year it’s the same – a fucking big pain For no personal gain, giving millions of things away It gives me the blues – squeezing down dirty flues An obese old guy shouldn’t have to be slaving this way So – thank god for the atheists The muslims and buddists The jews and the
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The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 In Nepal and India, the people are rising up in revolution. Millions of people are arguing, marching in the streets and burning down police stations as they struggle to imagine and bring into existence a whole new world. Nepal is a country where the government has almost no
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The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 In the aftermath of the Greek bailout there was a lot of talk about the other vulnerable European economies that could have followed the collapse into bankruptcy of the Greek economy. Top of the list of vulnerable Euro zone economies were Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Of these,
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Don Franks Because he once stood against Tom Skinner for FoL president, Danny Nichols will always rate at least a footnote in bourgeois labour movement history. Which is more than most other shop floor militants get, because so much of our working class history never makes the scholarly pages. But it’s a simple fact that
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