Activists have called on the NSW government to cancel the exploration licence for the proposed KEPCO coalmine in the Bylong Valley after the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) slammed the project for putting at risk prime agricultural land, precious water resources, heritage values and the community.
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Five state and territory Conservation Councils are calling for a judicial inquiry into water management in the Murray-Darling Basin and the implementation of the Basin Plan in response to revelations by the ABC鈥檚 Four Corners on July 24.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to investigate allegations of maladministration and potential corruption raised in the report titled 鈥淧umped 鈥 Who is benefitting from the millions spent on the Murray Darling?鈥.
The Socialist Alliance is the first party to nominate women candidates for Geelong's upcoming local council elections.
Sue Bull, a health and safety teacher, committed trade unionist and previous candidate for Socialist Alliance has been pre-selected, along with Sarah Hathway, a Deakin University student and 2014 state election candidate.
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Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 annual State of the Nation (SONA) address on July 24 reflected his government鈥檚 increasing trajectory towards dictatorship. Outside, protest marches converged on the parliamentary complex at Batasan, reflecting the growing grassroots opposition to the worsening dictatorial trend.
In a New York Times op-ed in June titled 鈥淗ow Democrats Can Stop Losing鈥, Bernie Sanders slammed the Democratic Party.
鈥淚n 2016 the Democratic Party lost the presidency to possibly the least popular candidate in American history,鈥 he wrote. 鈥淚n recent years, Democrats have also lost the Senate and House to right-wing Republicans whose extremist agenda is far removed from where most Americans are politically.
On September 26 last year, Podemos鈥檚 Castilla-La Mancha secretary-general Jose Garcia Molina said that his party鈥檚 agreement keeping the regional Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government in office in the autonomous community had 鈥渄ied of depression and shame鈥.
Twenty civil society groups from across Africa have released the statement below in support of protests in Morocco and other North African countries against growing state repression, resource theft and imperialist expansion. They call for respect for people鈥檚 rights and just development. The statement is reported from .
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One hundred years ago, between July 16-20 [3-7 in New Style] 1917, a protest movement of workers and soldiers in Petrograd was repelled by military and police attacks, with hundreds of casualties.
It was a key phase in the storm that swept Russia during 1917. It 聽culminated in the October Revolution when, led by the Bolsheviks, the soviets (councils) of workers, soldiers and peasants took power, overthrowing the capitalist Provisional Government that was formed after the February Revolution deposed the Tsar.
Photos from the #StopWestCONnex lantern procession on July 22 along the route of Stage 3 from St Peters to Haberfield.
鈥淪ocialism is back. Unmentioned and unused, a dead concept and suddenly there was Corbynism.鈥 That鈥檚 how announced the resurrection in 鈥淭he Death of Neoliberalism鈥 in the July 15 issue of The Saturday Paper.
Veterans For Peace condemns President Trump鈥檚 effort to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. Veterans For Peace affirms the rights, humanity and identity of trans people and calls on President Trump to reverse his bigoted decision to bar trans people from exercising their right as full citizens to serve in the United States military.
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