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The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia Terry Cook, a long-standing member of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) delivered this speech at the webinar “ .” The webinar was hosted by the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to discuss the causes of the 2010 Pike River disaster and the efforts by successive New Zealand governments, abetted by the trade unions and the entire political establishment, to protect the corporate criminals responsible. Dear friends and comrades. When I first heard the news of the Pike River mine disaster, my mind raced back over the many si...

The Socialist Equality Group’s (New Zealand) webinar included speeches by Bernie Monk, whose son was among the 29 men killed, and electrical engineer Richard Healey, who has extensively investigated the disaster.

Mining Union warns about possible attack on Bolivian president Mining Union warns about possible attack on Bolivian president La Paz, Feb 24 (Prensa Latina) The Huanuni Mining Union (HMU) on Tuesday warned about a possible attack against Bolivian President Luis Arce by right-wing opposition members. To those who are threatening our president (Luis Arce) at the national level, those coup plotters wanting to articulate again, the HMU will not allow them to do so, the HMU posted on Twitter. HMU´s Secretary-General Sabino Achacollo declared a state of emergency in such a situation and stressed t...

Doubted her or threatened her, she was certainly willing to take up arms. >> people did. she had a lot of critics. >> she did. her economic policies were tough. britain needed, in her view, some pretty nasty medicine and she gave it to them. first of all, she took on the union. most famously the miners, the mining union were the strongest in britain. that ran into running clashes in the coal mining communities. eventually she broke the unions and the entire coal mining in britain pretty much shut down then. then she introduced a poll tax, she called it a community charge. that sent hundreds of...

That's trillions of dollars of wealth. >> so we were talking before the segment started and jonathan, what can -- if the president is elected for a second term what does this mean in terms of energy reform and climate change and attention paid to the fact that it's getting warmer? >> i have no reporting but he does have powerful regulatory tools. the epa can regulate carbon emissions and be the policy or use that as the stick to force congress to do something that's less harmful to the energy industry but make progress on it. >> it would be nice maybe if he gave a shout out to that possibility...