鈥淚n a daring and audacious move, Matt McCarten, general secretary of the Unite union, announced his candidacy in the November 20, Mana by-election in Wellington鈥, Unite campaigns organiser Joe Carolan said in an October 26 Socialist Aotearoa article.
Carolan said McCarten 鈥渉as had a quarter of century experience fighting for New Zealand鈥檚 poorest workers 鈥 standing as a member of the independent left, he would make an excellent champion for the thousands of low-paid and unemployed workers in Mana鈥.
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The United Nations general assembly ratified on October 26, for the 29th consecutive time, the global rejection of the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for almost 50 years, Prensa Latina said that day.
The isolation of the US government over Cuba was shown by the vote on the resolution entitled 鈥淭he necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba鈥.
French workers and students have mobilised in large numbers again to oppose changes in pension laws that will raise the age at which workers are able to retire.
The seventh national strike in as many weeks took place on October 28, as indefinite strikes in many industries against the changes entered their third week.
The protests took place despite the government鈥檚 pension bill passing through France鈥檚 parliament on October 27.
It is not difficult to see that the events in Ecuador on September 30 amounted to an attempted right-wing coup d鈥檈tat.
Mass mobilisations in the streets of the capital, Quito, and other cities 鈥 together with action by 麻豆传媒 of the armed forces loyal to the government 鈥 stopped the coup before the day was out.
But those few hours highlighted, again, the deep dangers facing those fighting for progressive change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Videos showing the torture of West Papuans by occupying Indonesian soldiers have embarrassed the Indonesian government ahead of a scheduled visit in November by US President Barack Obama.
Obama is due to discuss a security deal that would involve the US training Indonesian military units accused of human rights violations.
A video posted at FreeWestPapua.wordpress.com shows two Papuans from Gurage village being tied down and interrogated by Indonesian soldiers about the alleged location of weapons belonging to the Free Papua Movement (OPM).
The British people have a long and proud history of defeating repression, tyranny and injustice. They defeated Conservative Party prime minister Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 poll tax in 1991 by invoking an inspiring spirit of resistance against seemingly insurmountable forces.
And it鈥檚 just a well because they need to call on these traditions once again to defeat the unprecedented and brutal cuts proposed by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government for our public services. Chancellor George Osborne has announced planned public spending cuts of 拢81 billion pounds.
A report by the government of Cuba, posted to the United Nations Relief Web website, said representatives of the Union of South American nations (Unasur 鈥 which unites all South American countries), met via teleconference on October 25 and agreed to commence emergency medical shipments to the areas of Haiti affected by the cholera epidemic, CanadaHaitiAction reported.
Ten countries took part in the conference: Argentina; Chile; Colombia; Peru, Venezuela; Bolivia; Uruguay; Paraguay; Brazil and Ecuador.
鈥淎rgentine shares and bonds rose on Wednesday after the death of political heavyweight and former President Nestor Kirchner removed a market-unfriendly contender from the country's 2011 election campaign.
Britain鈥檚 biggest anti-cuts demonstration yet took place on October 23, when 20,000 people took part in a Scottish-wide protest in Edinburgh.
BBC News has also reported 鈥渟everal thousand鈥 demonstrating in Belfast in a trade union-organised event.
Called by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the Edinburgh demo throws the failures of the British Trade Union Congress general council 鈥 which managed nothing more than a couple of thousand in Westminster Hall on the day before cuts were announced 鈥 into sharp relief.
Three hundred people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on October 29 to protest against physical and sexual violence against women, as part of global Reclaim the Night protests.
Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Larissa Behrendt, outlined the challenges Indigenous women face, not only from Indigenous men but also the white legal system when reporting incidents of physical and sexual assault.
Charlotte Long from Burma Campaign Australia spoke about the systematic rape of ethnic minority women in Burma.
鈥淲orkers in southern China, who say they were assembling Apple laptops and iPhones, have become seriously ill after using a dangerous chemical. 鈥淭he Number Five People鈥檚 Hospital in Suzhou has been treating workers who breathed in vapours from the chemical n-hexane. 鈥淎ccording to the workers, the chemical was being used in the production of Apple products and has left them unable to walk 鈥 They say they were using n-hexane to glue and polish the logos on Apple products 鈥
Thousands of pensioners descended on British parliament to reject the government鈥檚 pension cuts on October 27.
Angry pensioners pledged to escalate the fight against the cuts by joining spirited protests up and down the land against the government鈥檚 public spending cuts.
Nearly 1000 activists from the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) converged on Westminster to protest against vicious cuts in vital services and to demand a basic state pension of at least 拢171 a week.
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