In response to a recent vote in the lower house of Brazil鈥檚 parliament in favour of impeaching Workers鈥 Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil鈥檚 two main coalitions of social movements issued the statement below on April 17.
Rousseff is under attack over a series of corruption scandals, but the forces allied against her 鈥 the political, media and corporate elite 鈥 have themselves been implicated in corruption. Many in Brazil, including left opponents of Rousseff鈥檚 government, see the impeachment as an institutional coup by the right wing.
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Left-wing supporters of Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum campaign.
Is There A Scottish Road to Socialism?
Edited by Gregor Gall
Scottish Left Review Press
Third edition, 2016
拢5.99, 164 pages
This is the third edition in a series previously published in 2007 and 2013. A range of left-wing activists and commentators debate the question of whether Scottish independence would help or hinder the prospects for socialism in Scotland.
The federal government's move to reintroduce the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is an attempt to make it harder for the unions to go in and fight for workers' rights and conditions in all parts of the construction industry.
Conditions in the building industry are now extremely varied. At the Barangaroo development the big builders are doing massive hours but their workers are paid decently and their safety is reasonable to good.
Black Panther #1
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marvel comic series
The new Black Panther is 鈥淏lack as hell鈥 鈥 a phrase Ta-Nehisi Coates used to describe himself on Twitter a week ahead of the release of Black Panther #1, the highly anticipated first issue in a new 12-part Marvel series penned by Coates.
That's no small thing in the comics world. Sure, comic companies have begun to show an understanding that their core audience is diverse, increasingly female and of colour.
Four lawmakers from Spain's far-left Podemos party and its allies are participating in a week-long hunger strike to try to rally public support for refugees.
The lawmakers began their hunger strike on April 16 and called on people to occupy public squares for 24 hours on April 22, the day their actions end. The hunger strike is a gesture of support for those people at the center of Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War II.
Twenty-four hour assemblies were planned for a dozens cities on April 22.
Sun filters through as a golden blur in low-resolution photos and a few seconds of shaky video clips 鈥 evoking the difficulty of getting footage of a protest the Nauru government does not want you to see.
But even with three fences in the way, you can still see the 144 asylum seekers, including children, who are protesting against their detention in the Nauru Regional Processing Centre.
Photo: Arabfilmfestival.org.
Speed Sisters
Directed by Amber Fares
2015
Google 鈥渟port鈥 and 鈥淧alestine鈥 and what does the search engine return? Football, football and more football.
Sarah Eleazar is a Pakistani journalist and member of the socialist Awami Workers Party (AWP). She co-edits Tajdeed, a left research journal in Urdu.
Eleazar will be a featured guest at the in Sydney on May 13-15. She spoke with 麻豆传媒 Radio on Melbourne community station 3CR in March about the fight for women鈥檚 liberation and socialism in Pakistan. The first part of an abridged transcript is below.
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Supporters at a Bernie Sanders rally in St Mary鈥檚 Park in the Bronx on April 14.
Despite a decisive victory on April 19, providing further confirmation of her likely nomination, in many respects Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton emerged from the New York primary more damaged and her party more divided.
A commissioned by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage has found communities across New South Wales are big fans of renewable energy.
An overwhelming 91% of the 2000 people surveyed across NSW said they support the use of renewables to generate electricity.
Tiga Bayles, a Birri Gubba Gungalu man and a Dawson River Murri has died after a long battle with cancer.
When I heard that Tiga had passed away I was taken back to when I first met him at Sydney's Radio Skid Row. He felt strongly that Indigenous voices should be heard on air, and helped set up Radio Redfern, which started broadcasting for 10 hours each week on Radio Skid Row in the early 1980s. He told me at Radio Redfern in 1989: 鈥淢y people have an oral history and culture so we use radio.鈥
The biggest barrier to the rational economic policies of Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist leader of the British labour Party, is the huge profits the super-rich are making from irrational ones.
The Bank of England has shelled out 拢375 billion in 鈥渜uantitative easing鈥 since the 2008 crash. It has, quite literally, created electronic money out of nowhere and used it to buy up financial assets held by the banks. The idea has been to pump 鈥渓iquidity鈥 鈥 lendable money 鈥 into the economy.
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