Actions in solidarity with Greece鈥檚 anti-austerity government are being planned across Europe and beyond as Greece鈥檚 left-wing SYRIZA-led government confronts a European elite determined to destroy its pro-people platform.
Plans for protests to support Greece came as international institutions failed to reach an agreement with the SYRIZA government, TeleSUR English said on February 11. Talks were set to resume on February 16.
Stuart Munckton
鈥淕reece is turning the page,鈥 SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras told an ecstatic crowd on January 25. The radical left party had just come first in historic elections in Greece with 36.3% of the vote.
鈥淕reece leaves behind the austerity that caused its destruction. It leaves behind fear and intimidation; it leaves behind five years of humiliation and grief. Greece advances with hope, with dignity and steady steps towards a changing Europe.鈥
The news from Greece has spread hope around the world.
These are certainly interesting times 鈥 where growing inequality, ongoing injustice and the threat of climate disaster make a potent brew of deep uncertainty.
Players for A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers are in dispute with club management over their share of prize money for taking part in the Club World Cup in Morocco.
Wanderers players have not ruled out boycotting their December 13 match against Mexican team Cruz Azul if no agreement is reached.
The players earned 50% of the prize money for taking part in the Asian Champions League, which the Wanderers became the first Australian team to win on November 1, booking their place at the CWC.
Tom Waits once said that writing songs against war was like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. Which may be true, but no one said gorillas liked peanuts in their face.
"This win is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists," Bolivia's left-wing President Evo Morales told thousands of supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace on the evening of October 12 after a crushing win in that's day's presidential poll, .
Cuba said it will send nearly 300 more doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, on September 26.
The Cubans will work in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, Regla Angulo, head of the Cuban medical relief agency said in a statement that day. Al Jazeera said: 鈥淭he announcement means that up to 461 Cuban medical personnel would have been sent to help address the epidemic spreading across West Africa.
鈥淭he excessive focus on profits neither respects Mother Earth, nor takes human needs into account,鈥 Bolivian President Evo Morales said in his speech to Untied nationals climate summit on September 23. 鈥淭he continuation of this unequal system only leads to greater inequalities.鈥
that day that Morales called for incentives to respect Mother Earth and exhorted the developed countries to live up to their promises.
Laila Harre, the leader of the newly formed Internet Party, told a September 16 stop-work meeting in west Auckland organised by the FIRST and Unite unions, that state spying was not due to concerns about terrorism, but to target people who 鈥渙rganise for change鈥.
John Minto is a veteran New Zealand activist who became known as a leader of a powerful anti-apartheid campaign in the 1970s. More recently, he was part of organising some of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations ever in New Zealand.
It is a story that will be familiar to many residents of the Sydney suburb Millers Point: a suburb with long-standing public housing that provides affordable accommodation to low-income residents is at the centre government attempts, at the behest of property developers, to remove public housing tenants and free up land that just happens to feature prime water-side views.
Immediately after the September 15 鈥淢oment of Truth鈥 public meeting 鈥 in which NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed John Key鈥檚 National Party government complicity in the wholesale, and illegal, surveillance of New Zealanders 鈥 Internet MANA candidate in the September 20 elections, Joe Carolan, spoke to 麻豆传媒 on the meeting鈥檚 significance.
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