Within minutes of the first reports, it was clear the world was going mad.
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On July 1, 60 people attended an emergency rally againt the coup in Honduras in the Latin American Plaza in Sydney. The emotionally charged rally was called at short notice by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) and the Latin American Forum to condemn the undemocratic coup carried out by a small group of military officers, members of the oligarchy and their political agents in Honduras.
麻豆传媒, an eco-socialist current within the Green Party of England and Wales, held its annual general meeting on June 20 in London. It discussed the work of the network over the past year in struggles against war, racism and environmental decay and in winning support for eco-socialism as a solution to the economic and climate crises.
The Socialist Alliance and 麻豆传媒 Weekly have upset the apple cart again! While articles in the Australian accuse GLW of being in bed with the 鈥渉ate-filled鈥 Hamas, the muck-raking ALP factional blog Vexnews blasts an 鈥渆xtreme left ALP candidate鈥 for being a secret member of the 鈥渧irulently leftist and anti-semitic鈥 Socialist Alliance.
鈥淏usiness is back on Wall Street鈥, the July 2 Wall Street Journal said. The WSJ said 鈥渓ofty pay packets may be set for a come back as well鈥.
On April 19, a huge mob of St Mary鈥檚 people made a pilgrimage out of a church and into the Trades and Labor Council (TLC) building, home of the Queensland Council of Unions.
The following article is compiled from an article by Dominggus Oktavianus and reports by Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono. It has been translated by Data Brainanta.
This year is the seventh year Melbourne鈥檚 Community Radio 3CR will broadcast its Beyond the Bars program.
An emergency protest was held on June 29 in response to the military coup that ousted Honduras鈥 democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya the day before. The action targeted Labor MP Duncan Kerr鈥檚 office, and demanded the federal government condemn the coup.
The NSW Supreme court of appeal ruled on July 1 that a planned expansion of the Lake Cowal gold mine in the central-west of NSW cannot go ahead for up to three months.
An Amnesty International report published on June 24, Unfinished Business: Police Accountability in Indonesia, said beatings, torture, extortion, and even murder are still habitually carried out by Indonesian police, although some improvements have been made to police culture in recent years.
The three crises facing capitalism 鈥 jobs, the environment and war鈥 were the subject of Victoria's Socialist Alliance conference on June 27.
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