More than 200,000 protesters marched through Mumbai, disrupting traffic and straining the railway network, to press their demands for quotas in government jobs and education.
Rising unemployment and falling incomes are driving farming communities across India to redouble calls for reserving jobs and education, especially for the underprivileged Maratha community in western India.
So the government is planning a plebiscite on equal marriage by means of post, presumably because it didn鈥檛 want to confuse elderly opponents of marriage equality with new-fangled technological developments like the telegram.
The whole project will cost $122 million for a vote that is not even binding, when all polls for years have shown a large majority in favour of marriage equality and the thing could be resolved in a matter of hours by a simple vote in parliament.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has launched the First Nations Workers' Alliance to represent the 30,000 participants in the federal government鈥檚 Community Development Program (CDP), most of whom are Aboriginal people.
The move followed a resolution adopted by the ACTU executive authorising all means at its disposal to be mobilised towards dismantling the program. The resolution will kick-start the exploration of legal and legislative challenges to the program, as well as the mobilisation of campaign resources.
In June 1940, Winston Churchill described the German rout of the French, Belgian and British armies and the seaborne evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in northern France as a 鈥渃olossal military disaster鈥.
For a nation whose national identity is intimately bound up with victory and conquest, it is paradoxical that the retreat from Dunkirk has become such an important part of British mythology.
Quim Arrufat is a joint national spokesperson for the People鈥檚 Unity List (CUP), an organisation that he has likened to 鈥渦rban Zapatistas鈥 鈥 in reference to the insurgent indigenous movement based in Chiapas, Mexico 鈥 that is committed to Catalan independence and socialism. 聽
The case for re-nationalising the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is becoming stronger every day. The latest in a string of scandals to hit "Australia's leading bank" is the revelation the CBA is facing allegations that its Intelligent Deposit Machines (IDMs) were used by money launderers and criminal gangs to process millions of dollars in cash.
Two very different exhibitions communicate critical evidence about the Aboriginal experience of the 1967 referendum, through which the Australian constitution was amended to remove the racist provisions of 麻豆传媒 51 and 127.
That victory certainly did not end racism in Australia, but opened up the possibility of a broader, unfinished struggle.
A recent expose by the has alleged significant illegal extraction of water from the Barwon-Darling river system, one of the major tributaries of the Murray River.
The United States submarine captain says: 鈥淲e鈥檝e all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you鈥檙e never ready, because you don鈥檛 know when it鈥檚 coming.
鈥淲ell, now we do know and there鈥檚 nothing to be done about it.鈥
He says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.
The war was over in a month
Walking into any souvenir shop in Australia, tourists see the walls lined with Aboriginal designs and artwork. What is less obvious is the fact that most of these items are mass produced in parts of Asia.
Banduk Marika, a Youngu artist, said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e not making those. Indigenous people, even Australians, we鈥檙e not making those. Who is making this?鈥
Aboriginal communities say the answer is corporations.
Britain Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said he is saddened by the violence and loss of life in Venezuela, 鈥渆ither of those on the streets or of the security forces who have been attacked by those on the streets鈥.
鈥淰iolence is not going to solve the issues,鈥 Corbyn told the media, at the end of a local party meeting in the southern English town of Crawley. He said there has to be dialogue and a process that respects Venezuela's institutions, including the independence of the judiciary.
Hamed Shamshiripour, a 31 year old Iranian refugee, died on August 7 as a direct result of Australia鈥檚 detention system. He is the sixth man to die on Manus Island since the detention centre was opened in 2012, according to Monash University鈥檚 .