Staff at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have voted to strike for a week following Fairfax Media's announcement that it will cut 125 editorial jobs 鈥攁 quarter of its journalists 鈥 as part of a $30-million restructure.
Staff were informed of the job cuts by email and in a meeting with editorial director Sean Aylmer on May 3. They have been given until May 9 to nominate for a voluntary redundancy.
Venezuela is in flames. Or at least parts of it are.
Since April 4, right-wing opposition militants have carried targeted acts of violence, vandalism and arson. They are deliberately clashing with security forces in a bid to plunge the country into chaos and forcefully remove the elected socialist government.
It is the continuation of an 18 year effort to topple the Bolivarian revolution by any means necessary 鈥 although you may have seen it miraculously recast in the mainstream media as 鈥減romoting a return to democracy.
Palestinian journalist聽听丑补蝉听聽a new hunger strike in protest of how Israel has once again detained him without charge or trial.
A trade union leader who has been in the forefront of industrial action for more than a month against Sri Lanka鈥檚 main telecommunications provider has gone missing after court orders banning protests led by his union.
The wife of M Sujeewa Mangala, the vice-president of the All Ceylon Telecommunication Employees鈥 Union, has lodged a complaint at a police station in the Colombo suburbs that her husband did not come home on December 29 as expected.
The crackdown by the Turkish regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an against the democratic and left-wing opposition, independent media and the Kurdish population has intensified. On October 25, co-mayors of the the Diyarbak谋r (Amed) Metropolitan Municipality, G眉ltan K谋艧anak and F谋rat Anl谋, members of the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were arrested.
Free Women鈥檚 Congress (KJA) spokesperson Ayla Akat Ata was detained at a protest calling for K谋艧anak and Anl谋's release and is now facing terrorism charges alongside them.
The announcement from Venezuela's electoral authority on October 20 that it would head a court ruling and聽聽has unleashed yet another wave of critical articles and opinion pieces throughout the English-speaking media, labeling Venezuela government聽as 鈥渁uthoritarian鈥 or even a 鈥渄ictatorship.鈥
Pitched Battle: In the Frontline of the 1971 Springbok Tour of Australia By Larry Writer Scribe Melbourne, 2016 336pp, $35.00
鈥淪port and politics don鈥檛 mix鈥 is often heard from politicians and media commentators when people target sporting events in acts of protest or athletes use their chosen sports to make political statement 鈥 for example Muhammad Ali and, more recently, US NFL star Colin Kaepernick. However, sport is often politicised in many different ways by the ruling class to reinforce the status quo.
Play On! The Hidden History of Women鈥檚 Australian Rules Football
Brunette Lenki膰 and Rob Hess
Echo Publishing 2016,
324 pages
In a landmark development, the first national women鈥檚 Australian Football competition 鈥 AFL Women鈥檚 鈥 will be launched next February. But a century ago, attitudes to women playing the game were very different.
鈥淒on鈥檛 go around acting holier-than-thou about this like you鈥檝e never heard anyone say anything like that before,鈥 said Tomi Lahren, 24-year-old Trump-supporting commentator for right-wing US media network The Blaze, over Donald Trump鈥檚 leaked comments boasting about sexual assault. 鈥淕ive me a break.鈥
Amy Goodman at the Dakota Access protest.
Chelsea Manning, the US army private who leaked classified information about US war crimes to WikiLeaks, announced on September 9 that she has begun a hunger strike to protest the lack of respect and dignity from prison and military officials.
鈥淚 need help, I am not getting any,鈥 Manning said in a statement. 鈥淚 have asked for help time and time again for six years and through five separate confinement locations. My request has only been ignored, delayed, mocked, given trinkets and lip service by the prison, the military, and this administration.鈥
I love this book. It is a showcase of four decades of Melbourne community radio station 3CR 鈥 one of Australia鈥檚 oldest and most progressive broadcasters, intertwined with the local and national landscape of political struggle from the mid 1970s until today.