Following the December 2 constitutional reform referendum defeat 聴 the first for the forces of the Bolivarian revolution since the election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 1998 聴 and facing popular discontent at the problems holding back the advance of the process of change, the pro-revolution forces face a big challenge in securing an overwhelming victory in the November regional elections in order not to lose ground to the US-backed opposition.
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Qantas engineers stopped work for four hours at Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney airports over May 29-30. The workers are campaigning for a 5% wage increase.
Northern Territory teachers carried out rolling stoppages on May 26-28 as part of their campaign for a new enterprise agreement with the NT government. Teachers also held an after-work rally in Darwin聮s city centre on May 29.
Around 300 Melbourne Sudanese community members and supporters took to the streets on May 27 to protest the indiscriminate killings taking place in the disputed oil-rich Abyei territory of Sudan.
South Africa, up until the recent outbreak of xenophobic violence, was one of the rare, relatively stable African countries where refugees like myself could expect their basic rights to be protected.
Afghanistan
Tony Iltis (GLW #752)makes much of the West's fumbling and imperialistic attitude towards Afghanistan in modern history. What he neglects to mention is that polling of Afghans has, consistently since the invasion, conclusively shown
鈥淭he Venezuelan revolution is slowly going forward, despite problems. President Hugo Chavez hasn鈥檛 stopped for a minute in pushing the process ahead, in the face of serious challenges鈥, Coral Wynter, co-leader of the Australian May Day 2008 solidarity brigade to Venezuela, told a meeting of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network on May 26.
Below is an abridged May 26 statement by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF).
Joseph Bryan, Kevin Rudd聮s, politicians, tax cuts, Stolen Generation, Northern Territory, 2020 Summit
After a vibrant protest on May 26, the Gold Coast Bulletin and Channel Nine news reported that 鈥減eople power鈥 had won out over a new council policy that banned protests in almost all public parks in the Gold Coast.
Bolivia may have its first-ever indigenous president, but racism is alive and well in this country, as demonstrated by the public humiliation of a group of around 50 indigenous mayors, town councillors and community leaders in the south-central city of Sucre.
Local residents, environmentalists and public transport supporters gathered at Debney Park on May 25 to voice their opposition to a proposed tolled east-west road tunnel and a large housing tower development in the local area.
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