麻豆传媒 TV's coverage of the Sydney World Refugee Day rally, held on Sunday June 16.
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown explains why he supports 麻豆传媒 Weekly as the alternative to the Murdoch press.
The Harmony Centre, a coalition of left-wing parties, won 59% of popular vote in the municipal elections held in this Eastern European country on June 1.
When the Turkish Prime Minister ayyip Erdogan called the protesters in the streets of Istanbul plunderers (莽补辫耻濒肠耻) on June 2, he contributed a new verb to the English language.
A video clip of the resistance 鈥 entitled 鈥淓veryday I'm Chapuling鈥 鈥 hit the internet on June 4 with new lyrics written on the pop song 鈥淓veryday I'm Shufflin鈥. And the new English verb was born: to chapul.
Soon after, the word moved to the French language and found a place among such words as liberte, egalite and fraternite: chapulite.
This is a slightly edited text of a presentation made by Dave Holmes at the 鈥淥rganising for 21st century socialism鈥 seminar, held in Sydney on June 9. Holmes is a leading member of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne.
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Today I want to talk about how socialists need to work to win mass influence and how that relates to the unity process between Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative.
A new website has published the biggest set of immigration detention records in Australia to date. It will provide unprecedented verification of the endemic self-harm and psychiatric crises that refugee rights campaigners have independently reported for years.
Socialist Alliance candidate for Fremantle, Sam Wainwright introduces the Socialist Alliance campaign to a packed out candidates forum organised by GetUp.
The statement below was released by the Socialist Alliance on June 5.
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Liah Lazarou has been pre-selected by the Socialist Alliance to run for the seat of Adelaide in the federal election in September.
Lazarou is a communications student and a committed grassroots activist. She has been involved in organising workers, students and young people as a member of the Socialist Alliance since 2006.
During this year alone, an estimated 128 people have drowned or vanished trying to seek asylum in Australia. By June 14, up to seven asylum boats trying to reach Christmas Island had foundered, sunk or been stranded.
This includes the boat that sank in Indonesia鈥檚 Sunda Strait in April, when Australian authorities failed to give accurate coordinates of the foundering vessel to Indonesian search and rescue. Up to 58 people drowned, 53 of whom were never retrieved.
Information revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the PRISM spy program 鈥 which used data from giant internet companies, such as Google and Facebook, to carry out mass surveillance of people outside the US 鈥 has provided new evidence about the warrantless spying on civilians by the US government.
Although a government spying on civilians is hardly new and will not come as a surprise to many people, what is concerning about this case is the size and number of companies involved and the apparent ease with which this data was obtained.
A two-day seminar, "Organising for 21st century socialism", drew 150 people from around Australia to Sydney over June 8-9.
The seminar hosted US author and socialist activist Paul Le Blanc. Le Blanc is the author of Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and A Short History of the US Working Class, and spoke at the conference on the topic 鈥淟essons from Lenin for 21st century socialism鈥. The talk prompted constructive debate about how to organise a socialist party in Australia today.
The Refugee Action Coalition held a public forum on June 3 titled: 鈥淏ridging Visas, Community Detention: what rights do asylum seekers in the community have?鈥
About 12,000 asylum seekers who have arrived since August 13 last year are living in the community on 鈥渂ridging visas鈥. August 13 was when the government introduced the 鈥渘o advantage鈥 policy and ceased processing refugee applications.
Refugees on bridging visas receive less than the paltry Newstart allowance with little support. They could be sent to detention on Nauru or Manus Island at any time.
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