A magical mystery tour through coal communities around NSW, 20-26 November 2009. Visit www.transitiontour.wordpress.c om for all the details
Just over 17 years since the 1992 Peace Accords brought an end to El Salvador’s vicious civil war, the country has seen its first peaceful transfer of power. V for victory hand signs and red flags were paraded throughout the country’s streets as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, FMLN, won the presidency; thereby bringing to an end 20 straight years of rule by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, ARENA. El Salvador will be governed from the left for the first time since gaining it
Originally produced in the mid-1990s, this film remains the most authoritative account of the Crash of 1929, and includes rare testimony from the people who worked on Wall Street at the time.
n 1905, the Natal colony introduces a tax on the heads of all adult men. Coming close on the heels of land grabs, war and famine, the Poll Tax threatens to destroy African patriarchy and with it, tradition itself. Many young men are angry and look to their chiefs for leadership. Fearing the might of the colony, African chiefs are split over how to respond. When chief Bhambatha becomes a scapegoat for the British, he has no option but to fight. From a reluctant young chief, Bhambatha evolves into the spirit
A candlelight vigil for Gaza in Sydney, January 8. Organised by the Gaza Defence Committee.
Latin American leaders have gathered outside the UN general assembly for discussions on the ongoing political crisis in Bolivia. Al Jazeera's Ghida Fakhry spoke to Evo Morales, the Bolivian presid...
Richard Wolff is professor of economics at UMass Amherst. He talks about the underlying cause of the current capitalist crisis (NOT ``financial'' crisis) and capitalism in general. Socialism and workers' democracy is presented as the alternative. The talk was presented by the Association for Economic and Social Analysis and the journal Rethinking Marxism in early October 2008.
Images from the Partido Lakas ng Masa founding congress held in Manila on January 30, 2009.
David Newman: Most Israelis support the attacks on Gaza but public opinion is starting to change
Stop the Gaza Massacre Rally in London | 8 January 2009
An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President George W. Bush at a News Conference during his surprise visit to Iraq today. The president ducked and the size 10's missed. Among Muslims, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult.
Crisis NOT caused by: human nature, modernity, industrialism, economic development Problem = social relations of CAPITALISM Environmental problems can be overcome without abandoning prospect of human progress Fundamental social change to make sustainable relations to environment possible