The Socialist Alliance campaign for Marrickville council is underway, with a ticket of three committed activists nominated for the north ward. The candidates are Pip Hinman, Jill Hickson and Howard Byrnes.
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Political and social conflict continues to grow in Peru in the wake of a general strike against the neoliberal policies of President Alan Garcia聮s government, which saw much of the country paralysed on July 9.
Mamdouh Habib, who was tortured in Egypt then detained in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for three-and-a-half years before being released in February 2005 without charge, has faced continal harassment and persecution since his return to Australia.
In one of the youngest local government election tickets ever, the Socialist Alliance is standing Laura Ealing, 21, Tom Cameron, 19, and Zane Alcorn, 24, for ward 3 in the upcoming Newcastle council elections.
Over the past few months, the Cuban government under President Raul Castro has announced a series of reforms to the island nation聮s agriculture and food production policies.
In a reprise of the battle to save the Franklin River, rural and urban communities are uniting to oppose plans by the Queensland state government to construct a dam across the Mary River. David White asked Steve Posselt about the campaign.
Victorian TAFE teachers voted on July 18 to take 24-hour strike action on August 20 in support of better pay and conditions after negotiations with the Victorian TAFE Association stalled.
When does a worker, even a casual or part-time worker, join a union? When it聮s clear that membership brings better pay, working conditions and job security. Why, then, is union membership among workers at an all-time low? Because in so many industries union membership doesn聮t seem to bring these benefits.
鈥淎ll those who want to live in a healthy, equal society should vote for the Socialist Alliance鈥, Soubhi Iskander, one of three candidates to contest ward 3 of the Blacktown City Council elections for Socialist Alliance on September 13, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
El Salvador is an exciting Central American nation to be watching at the moment, because if current polls are to be believed, the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), looks set to win the parliamentary elections in January, and the presidential elections in March.
Which bank? Umm, the whole lot of them, actually. But let鈥檚 start with 鈥渢he bank鈥, the Commonwealth Bank, because its profit report came out last week.
After a massive campaign launched in February by survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the Indian government announced on August 8 that it would concede their demands to establish an 聯empowered commission聰 for rehabilitation of victims and the environment, and pursue legal action against Dow Chemicals.
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