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South Korea: Right loses presidency after mass movement 鈥 what Moon鈥檚 win means

Moon Jae-in, of the liberal Democratic Party, won South Korea鈥檚 May 9 presidential election with 41% of the vote, easily defeating his arch-conservative opponent Hong Jun-pyo, who won about 24%.

The elections took place after the impeachment of conservative president Park Geun-hye for her involvement in a huge corruption scandal. Park, from Hong鈥檚 right-wing Saenuri Party (renamed Liberty Korea Party in a bid to rebrand), was forced out by the huge 鈥淐andlelight Revolution鈥. Millions of Koreans mobilised in an ongoing series of candlelight protests to demand her impeachment.

The elections also took place in a context of the threat of war in the Korean Peninsula with US President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration ratcheting up tensions with North Korea.

From science and climate to May Day 鈥 mass actions challenge Trump

The United States was the scene of three large national mass mobilisations from April 22 to May 1 challenging President Donald Trump鈥檚 agenda.聽聽

TrumpWatch: Women convicted for laughing at Jeff Sessions; Congress urged to block Trump's nuke powers; resistance growing, not slowing

Women convicted for laughing at Jeff Sessions

Malalai Joya: Disaster in Afghanistan the result of US-NATO 'war on terror'

Afghan anti-war activist and feminist Malalai Joya sent the solidarity message below to a protest organised by Sydney Stop the War Coalition against the visit of US Vice President Mike Pence to Australia on April 29.

Joya was elected to Afghanistan鈥檚 from 2005 until early 2007. She was dismissed from her seat for denouncing the presence of and in the .

Bolivia鈥檚 Evo Morales: The US threatens humanity with nuclear war

鈥淲ar aids capitalism, those who support capitalism support war, that is, the philosophy of death and destruction,鈥 Boliva鈥檚 left-wing President Evo Morales said on April 18.

Morales warned that humanity was 鈥渁t risk of disappearing in a nuclear holocaust,鈥 as tensions mount worldwide after US military attacks in Syria and Afghanistan.

鈥淣uclear power in the United States and Western countries are getting us dangerously closer to a nuclear conflagration.鈥

Hundreds of cities across globe march for science on Earth Day

Hundreds of cities took part in a worldwide 鈥淢arch for Science鈥 to coincide with Earth Day on Saturday. Grouping together local and international environmental issues, the demonstrations聽championed science, research and evidence in the face of political inaction toward the environment and climate change and increasing steps by taken by Donald Trump鈥檚 attacks on science and planet.

Behind Donald Trump鈥檚 dangerous sabre-rattling

During last year鈥檚 presidential election campaign, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump favoured a more militarised foreign policy. They differed on the main target: Clinton aimed at Russia, while Trump singled out China.

Clinton wanted to continue the policy of both Republican and Democratic administrations since the collapse of the Soviet Union of steadily expanding NATO up to Russia鈥檚 borders in Europe. She also proposed challenging Russia in Syria.

Bombing Syria is no solution

The released the following statement on April 7.

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Socialist Alliance condemns the unilateral use of force by US President Donald Trump against Syria on April 7.聽

The pretext for Trump's missile attack was a deadly chemical attack on civilians, which the US has blamed on the Bashaaar al Assad regime, rather than await the outcome of an investigation into who was responsible.

Zapatistas launch 'Fuck Trump' coffee to help immigrants

Mexico鈥檚 Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) has announced it will begin selling organic coffee from Chiapas to help migrants persecuted by US President Donald Trump.

Working alongside allied international distributors, the EZLN will use coffee sale funds to provide financial assistance to US deportees in Mexico. They will also use funds to support pro-immigrant resistance groups around the world protesting anti-immigrant governments.

Trump asks for billions in social spending cuts to pay for wall

US President Donald Trump is seeking to eliminate more than US$18 billion worth of health and education social programs to fund his anti-immigrant wall along the border with Mexico, documents submitted to the US Congress on March 28 showed.

Letter from the US: 鈥楽trongman鈥 Trump falls on his face

US President Donald Trump promised to cut through the disarray in the two parties of capitalism in the US by forcing on them a new strongman 鈥 himself 鈥 who knows how to get things done and make deals.

But the Republican health insurance debacle, with Trump鈥檚 replacement to Obamacare being withdrawn due to lack of support in Congress, not only cut him down to size, but represented the triumph of that very disarray over the new president. The strongman proved to be not so strong and the dealmaker could not close the deal.

Canada: Asylum seekers risk lives to cross border from Trump's America

Veteran Canadian-based socialist and activist Ernie Tate has been writing to English group Left Unity on the struggles in Canada provoked by the rise of Donald Trump south of the border.

A lifelong revolutionary who migrated to Canada from Northern Ireland as a young man, Tate was one of the most important activists of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in the 1960s and has recently produced a two volume memoir, Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s.