Oil from a collapsed offshore drilling platform oozed onto the
Louisiana coastline early Friday morning, threatening the worst
environmental disaster to hit the U.S. in two decades.

We are in a new episode of the global crisis: the struggle to distribute the costs of the crisis. This crisis has been an outcome of increased exploitation and inequality, since the post-1980s across the globe. Neoliberalism tried to solve the crisis of the golden age of capitalism via a major attack on workers.

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The following open letter was sent to Dr Michael Spence, the vice-chancellor of Sydney university, by renowned journalist and film-maker John Pilger. The letter, one of many sent to Spence by activists and academics, is in response to a decision by the university to ban two left-wing activists from being on campus (see GLW#831).

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Dear Dr Spence,

See for yourself the play that the Jewish Community Council tried to ban. Written by Caryl Churchill, directed by Vivienne Glance. Followed by debate and discussion. North Perth Town Hall, 26 View St, North Perth. Organised by Friends of Palestine.

Join the contingent against Barnett government attacks on the public sector. Fremantle Esplanade Reserve.