Seventeen people were killed and at least 15 other people were wounded on February 14聽at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, in one of the deadliest school shootings in US聽history.
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Venezuelan workers鈥 organisations have denounced illegal arrests, firings聽and persecution in the Lacteos Los Andes state-run dairy company and private Venevision TV station. Meanwhile,聽campesino (peasant) leaders in Barinas state were freed and authorised to return to their land after persecution by an ex-land owner.
Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon became the first federal parliamentarian in Australia to publicly condemn Turkey's three-week war on Afrin, one of three democratic autonomous cantons in northern Syria, when she addressed a rally in Sydney on February 10.
The British government sold spying equipment worth more than 拢300,000 to the right-wing Honduran regime implicated in mass human rights abuses, including the assassination聽of high-profile environmental activist Berta Caceres.
The sale of the spyware came in the year preceding Honduras鈥檚 November 2017 presidential election, which was聽.
The most effective way to counter US President Donald Trump鈥檚 reactionary policies is through mass action.
The Democratic Party, however, hopes to steer movements and individuals opposed to Trump into support of its candidates. While this trap of 鈥渓esser evil鈥 politics has proved to be a failure over and over again, there is another, outright reactionary, content to the Democrat鈥檚 current anti-Trump campaign.
Women from the Tirbesipiye-Cizire Canton in northern Syria (known as 鈥淩ojava鈥 in Kurdish)聽held a women-only demonstration through the city centre on February 9.
The marchers expressed their support for the resistance by women and others in the Afrin canton in Rojava against the fascist invasion from Turkey and Islamic gangs, which began last month 鈥 and in support of the feminist, multi-ethnic Rojava Revolution.
Leila Khaled, a leader of the People鈥檚 Front for the Liberation of Palestine, took part in the Third Congress of the Peoples鈥 Democratic Party (HDP) that was held in Ankara, Turkey, on February 11.
Turkey's second largest opposition party 鈥 the left-wing, Kurdish-led Peoples鈥 Democratic Party (HDP) 鈥 elected new leaders at its Third Congress on February 11.
About 200 relatives and supporters of the late Patrick Fisher gathered on February 11 to commemorate his life and hold a march calling for justice.
Fisher died on February 7 while fleeing from police who had kicked down the door of his girlfriend's home. He was wanted on outstanding warrants for minor stealing offences.
Police claim he slipped while trying to climb down to another unit and fell from the thirteenth floor balcony of the Joseph Banks Tower in the Waterloo public housing estate.
With the National Electoral Council setting April 22 as the date for the country鈥檚 presidential election and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) confirming current president Nicolas Maduro as their candidate, leftist organisations in Venezuela have been debating what position to take.
As Venezuelans get ready for April鈥檚 presidential election, US Senator Marco Rubio claimed via Twitter the world would support Venezuela鈥檚 military if it decided to orchestrate a coup against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is up for re-election.
The Republican lawmaker from Florida tweeted on February 9: 鈥淭he world would support the Armed Forces in if they decide to protect the people & restore democracy by removing a dictator.鈥
The Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) traditional owners of the land on which Adani has approval to build its Carmichael coalmine are concerned that the Queensland government will act to extinguish their native title rights prior to a Federal Court hearing scheduled for March 12鈥15.
This follows the decision by the Federal Court to not extend an interim injunction, which had been in place since December 18, restraining the Queensland government from extinguishing native title under the terms of the purported Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA).
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