International Day of Mourning (28th April 2009)

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28 April is International workers day of mourning. A day to commemorate workers who have died on the job.

On construction sites around Australia, construction workers will stop for a minute’s silence to remember their work mates.

Our construction industry is one of the toughest industries to work in and statistics show that one construction workers is killed a week in Australia. Hundreds more are injured.

But each year millions of dollars is spent on the Australian Building and Construction Commission, an organisation which undermines workers rights and safety.

That’s why we’re campaigning to get rid of the ABCC and the laws that keep it in place.

TAKE ACTION NOW - sign the online petition!

Michael Lebowitz: What would Marx say today?

Michael Lebowitz addresses the World at a Crossroads conference. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.

Is it time to dust off a copy of Das Kapital and revisit Marx's analysis of capitalism's ills?

Michael Lebowitz has recently been in Australia as a featured guest of the World at a Crossroads conference, held in Sydney April 10-12, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Green Left Weekly. He was interviewed by the ABC Radio's Late Night Live on April 14, 2009.

Original audio source (lnl_20090414_2218.mp3)

Guests:

Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is a program coordinator with the Centro International Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela.

William Coleman
Reader at the school of economics of the Australian National University; editor of Agenda: a Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform.

Further Information:

``The Path to Human Development'' -- Michael A. Lebowitz

Publications

Beyond Capital, Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class
Michael A. Lebowitz
Palgrave Macmillan (Second Edition, 2003)

Story researcher and producer: Sasha Fegan

Marxist Geographer David Harvey on the G20, the Financial Crisis and Neoliberalism

For some analysis on the G20 summit and the financial crisis, Democracy Now speaks to a leading thinker on the global economy. David Harvey is a Marxist geographer and distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including The Limits to Capital and A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

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5 Reasons why the ABCC must go

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John Bellamy Foster on the economic and ecological crises: `The common denominator is capitalism'

John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly's Ruth Ratcliffe

A 20-minute interview recorded with a handheld cam in Oregon, USA, in February 2009. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthy Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is co-author, with Fred Magdoff, of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press, January 2009) among numerous other works. Foster discusses the global economic crisis, its implications for the world and particularly the Australian economy. He also discusses the ecological crisis and the potential for revolutionary change.