The Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian Branch Council has endorsed a planned Walk Off by teachers and education support staff in support of refugees on November 20, Universal Children鈥檚 Day.
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Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi must have been furious when, in the space of less than 24 hours, White Ribbon Australia (WRA) to drop support for what he claimed was a 鈥渞adical abortion policy鈥.
Former Geelong Trades Hall Council (GTHC) secretary Tim Gooden reflects on his experiences as a socialist trade union leader and discusses what he could bring to parliament if elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for the Western Region in the November 24 state elections.
Hundreds of women, men, children, youth and the elderly decided to leave Honduras on October 12 as a desperate response to survive, the Honduras Solidarity Network of North America writes.
Lee Wengraf鈥檚 Extracting Profit shows in great detail that Africa is poor, not because of any innate inability of Africans to raise themselves up, but because Africa鈥檚 poverty is necessary for corporate profit, writes Alan Broughton.
Walking down the street in Brazil wearing a badge that expresses your political ideas has never been as dangerous as it is today, writes Lucas Tin茅.
Noor Daoud was the only woman to take to the track in Egypt鈥檚 Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Palestinian car racer impressed the crowds with her 鈥渄rift鈥 driving skills.
Assembling in front of the White House on October 22, members of the LGBTI community and their allies gathered to deliver a clear message to President Donald Trump: transgender people 鈥淲on鈥檛 Be Erased鈥, writes Julia Conley.
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a warm welcome in Riyadh on October 23 during his surprise visit to the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference.
The conference聽has yielded investment deals worth an estimated US$50 billion,聽despite calls for a boycott by activists and some countries over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. However, Saudi Arabia is proving to be too tempting an investment opportunity for many businesses despite the large public outcry.
After a three-year probe and amid mounting demands that the fossil fuel industry be held accountable for driving the climate crisis, New York Attorney General聽Barbara Underwood聽聽on October 24 against ExxonMobil, the world鈥檚 largest oil and gas company.
The suit accuses the oil giant of defrauding investors by downplaying the financial threat of regulations crafted to mitigate human-caused global warming.
From Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square, about 700,000 people filled central London on October 20 protesting聽against the Tory Brexit,聽writes聽Andy Stowe.聽It was the largest demonstration the city had seen since the march聽against聽the Iraq war in 2003.
Five hundred academics, Nobel prize winners, human rights activists and celebrities have released an international statement against the rise of fascism in Brazil.
Among the initial signatories are: Argentine Nobel Peace prize winner Adolfo P茅rez Esquivel, African-American rights activist Angela Davis, US Senator Bernie Sanders, US actor Danny Glover, Chilean socialist academic Marta Harnecker, US academic Noam Chomsky, British-Pakistani writer Tariq Ali and economist Thomas Piketty.
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