The Socialist Alliance has selected a Victorian Senate team of Lalitha Chelliah and Tim Gooden, and candidates Zane Alcorn for the seat of Wills and Sue Bull for the seat of Corio.
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The three remaining presidential candidates 鈥 Republican candidate Donald Trump, and Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders 鈥 have all come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in varying degrees.
The TPP, a 鈥渇ree trade agreement鈥 involving 16 Pacific Rim nations (including Australia), is an undisguised corporate power grab. However, all candidates in the US presidential election stress a reactionary argument against it.
Five months after the December 20 election in Spain failed to produce a government, the country is returning to the polls in the most polarised contest since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1977.
In Coburg on May 28 about 400-500 people rallied peacefully in opposition to the federal government policies that promote racism towards Aborigines, refugees and Muslims. This was despite the rain.
Rally participants included the young and the old, people with children, church groups, interfaith groups, refugees, Muslims and First Nations people.
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A report released by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis on May 19 has said that the $800 million gas pipeline planned for the Northern Territory is economically unviable, to the extent that it is described as the 鈥渨hitest of white elephants鈥.
The pipeline, known as the North East Gas Interconnector (NEGI), has been the crown of the NT Country Liberal Party鈥檚 economic strategy in the lead-up to the August election. The pipeline is designed to transport the vast shale gas reserves in the NT from Tennant Creek to Mt Isa for sale to the rest of the world.
West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda has been touring Australia, spreading awareness of the West Papuan struggle for freedom from Indonesian rule.
Socialist governments in Latin America must relaunch 鈥渄emocratic revolutions鈥 in order to combat the strategies pushed by the United States to regain control of the region, Bolivian President Evo Morales said in an interview on May 23.
鈥淚n some countries it should be like a wake-up call where [governments] must start permanent conferences to relaunch democratic and cultural revolutions for Latin America and the Caribbean [region],鈥 Morales said in an interview with Cubavision.
Hundreds of people lined the shores in 鈥淗ands Across the Sand鈥 events across southern Australia on May 21 to protest BP's plans to drill for oil in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight.
Tasmanian Police have discontinued their prosecution of former Greens leader Bob Brown, who was arrested earlier this year under controversial anti-protest laws which he went on to challenge in the High Court.
Brown was arrested in January for standing in the way of bulldozers primed to clear forest at Lapoinya, in north west Tasmania.
He was one of the first to be charged under the Workplaces (Protection from Protestors) Act 2014.
The law is part of a controversial series of legislation, which aims at deterring protests that interrupt businesses' activities.
A community assembly as part of a communal council in Caracas. Photo by Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuela Analysis.
Leading Marxist author Michael Lebowitz spent six years (2004-2010) in Venezuela working as a director of the program for Transformative Practice and Human Development at the Miranda International Centre (CIM) in Caracas. There, he had the chance to take part in the building of socialism for the 21st century.
Veteran British director Ken Loach has won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake. The film is a warm and realistic drama about a middle-aged widower who, after a heart attack, can neither work nor get benefits.
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