Stalin Perez Borges is an activist with LUCHAS (United League of Chavista Socialists) and a member of the Consultative Council of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers鈥 Central (CBST).
He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about the July 30 elections for the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) and its subsequent inauguration, as well as the August 6 armed assault on a military base by right-wing opponents of Venezuela鈥檚 socialist government.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian鈥檚 surprise decision on July 27 to abandon plans for more local council mergers is a win for communities who strongly protested this undemocratic decision, said the Socialist Alliance candidates standing for the Inner West Council in the September 9 election.
Shashi Tharoor鈥檚 brilliant speech in 2015 to the Oxford Union on the motion 鈥淭his house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies鈥 went viral, receiving coverage across the world.
Tharoor, an MP for the Indian National Congress, former senior United Nations official, novelist and scholar, has now expanded the argument he made at Oxford into聽Inglorious Empire.
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
More than 70 workers at Visy鈥檚 Dandenong plant voted on August 7 to maintain a peaceful picket and not return to work after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was sacked on August 4 for organising 鈥渋llegal industrial action鈥.
The workers, all members of the AMWU, had become increasingly angered by a series of provocative actions taken by Visy management in the weeks before the delegate was sacked.