The overthrow of Brazil鈥檚 President Dilma Rousseff in an institutional coup by right-wing forces has been justified by allegations of corruption 鈥 even though issue Dilma is being impeached on is use of a relatively normal government spending mechanism.
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The overthrow of Brazil鈥檚 President Dilma Rousseff in an institutional coup by right-wing forces has been justified by allegations of corruption 鈥 even though issue Dilma is being impeached on is use of a relatively normal government spending mechanism.
The Malcolm Turnbull Coalition government's economic spin is that they are managing a 鈥渢ransition鈥 from 鈥渟trong resource investment-led growth to broader-based drivers of economic activity鈥.
This, it claims in the 2016 budget papers, is a transition to more 鈥渓abour-intensive sectors, such as services鈥. Hence the Coalition's mantra: 鈥淕rowth and jobs鈥. Sounds nice, but what does this mean for the different classes in Australia?
Ating Guro vigil outside Comelec office. Manila, May 27. Photo: Partido Lakas ng Masa.
Supporters of the Ating Guro (Teachers Dignity) partylist held a three-night vigil outside the offices of the Philippines Commission on Election (Comelec) on May 24, to protest apparent irregularities in counting votes after the May 9 general election.
First Nations Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for NSW Ken Canning visited the Bankstown campus of Western Sydney University on May 9 to inform students about why we need a people's movement. The meeting was organised by the Resistance Club.
He raised several key issues including the fact that despite former Labor PM Kevin Rudd's 鈥淪orry鈥 speech Indigenous children are still being forcefully removed at a higher rate than ever before.
Chasing Asylum
Directed by Eva Orner
Chasing Asylum is a new documentary that shows the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres for the 鈥淗ell on Earth鈥 and 鈥渉uman dumping grounds鈥 they are.
Sydney's Kurdish community and their supporters took to Martin Place on May 23 in a snap protest against Turkey's increasingly repressive Recep Tayyip Erdogan government after it cancelled the parliamentary immunity of progressive opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MPs.
This is part of a bloody war the regime has been waging against the Kurdish people since June last year.
Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Sydney Peter Boyle addressed the rally.
Austria elected its president on May 22 in the second round of voting, with the neoliberal green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly beating far-right Freedom Party (FP脰) candidate Norbert Hofer with 50.3% of the vote.
The FP脰, a right-wing populist and authoritarian German nationalist party of former leader J枚rg Haider, was founded in the 1950s. It was a political party for ex-Nazis who never broke with their Nazi tradition.
Feminists and their supporters have campaigned for decades to remove abortion from the NSW Crimes Act and treat the procedure as a health issue. For decades, they have been told 鈥渘ow is not the right time鈥.
Finally, NSW MLC Mehreen Faruqi has moved a repeal Bill.
More than half a million soldiers and civilian militia members took to the streets of Venezuela over May 20 and 21 to defend their national sovereignty amid rumours of international intervention and a potential coup, .
The drills featured troops, military boats and planes deployed to seven coastal states in Venezuela. They came after President Nicolas Maduro called on the military to rally around the defence of the country鈥檚 constitution in the face of foreign aggression.
As South Asia swelters through a record-breaking heatwave 鈥 with reports of hundreds of lives lost in India on top of the hundreds of farmer suicides this year owing to crop failures due to drought 鈥 a May 20 Reuters report that Pakistanis were digging mass graves in preparation for heatwave-related deaths brings the grim situation we are in into sharp focus.
There is a growing tide running against the major parties in this federal election, helped by five Labor and Liberal candidates who have resigned or been forced out, including now former Labor Senator Nova Peris in the Northern Territory.
In the seat of Whitlam (formerly Throsby) in the Illawarra, this tide has become painfully clear. Carolyn Currie, the Liberal candidate for the safe Labor seat, on ABC Local Radio Illawarra.
Around 100 Aboriginal grandmothers and supporters gathered at the Redfern Block on May 26, and marched to the Families and Community Services (FACS) office, as part of a National Day of Action on the anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report.
The action was organised by the Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR), a national network initiated by families who are directly affected by the child removal crisis. It is fighting to bring an end to continuing stolen generations.
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