麻豆传媒 TV's coverage of the Sydney World Refugee Day rally, held on Sunday June 16.
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When the Turkish Prime Minister ayyip Erdogan called the protesters in the streets of Istanbul plunderers (莽补辫耻濒肠耻) on June 2, he contributed a new verb to the English language.
A video clip of the resistance 鈥 entitled 鈥淓veryday I'm Chapuling鈥 鈥 hit the internet on June 4 with new lyrics written on the pop song 鈥淓veryday I'm Shufflin鈥. And the new English verb was born: to chapul.
Soon after, the word moved to the French language and found a place among such words as liberte, egalite and fraternite: chapulite.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown explains why he supports 麻豆传媒 Weekly as the alternative to the Murdoch press.
The Harmony Centre, a coalition of left-wing parties, won 59% of popular vote in the municipal elections held in this Eastern European country on June 1.
The coalition is made up of the social-democratic party Harmony and the Socialist Party of Latvia (heir of the Communist Party, which was declared illegal in 1994).
The following resolution was adopted by the Socialist Alliance national council meeting on June 10.
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鈥 If socialism is not just to be a good idea, it has to become a movement of the working class and other oppressed groups. It flows from this that to build the socialist movement we have to have a permanent focus on linking up with the activists and leaders of the working class and oppressed groups who are fighting capitalist oppression.
The Victorian government continued its attack on civil rights last week with the announcement that new prison cells would be built at train stations for use by protective services officers (PSOs).
Representatives from the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) and the Amateur Fishermen鈥檚 Association of the NT (AFANT) travelled to Mataranka on June 13 to host a public meeting about water allocations in the region.
The Country Liberal Party government has made changes to the allocation process, which threatens the Roper River region鈥檚 environment, as well as pastoral and Indigenous interests.
Moreland City Council has voted to accept an offer from the Victorian government to fund the installation of CCTV cameras on Sydney Road in Brunswick.
The offer was made following the rape and murder of Brunswick resident Jill Meagher in a side street near Sydney Road last year.
Three councillors voted against the decision: Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton, and Greens councillors Samantha Ratnam and Lenka Thomson.
This is a slightly edited text of a presentation made by Dave Holmes at the 鈥淥rganising for 21st century socialism鈥 seminar, held in Sydney on June 9. Holmes is a leading member of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne.
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Today I want to talk about how socialists need to work to win mass influence and how that relates to the unity process between Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative.
Like most sectors of society, the education system in Australia is under attack. For decades, education has been underfunded, so when Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she intended to fund the Gonski reforms, many people were temporarily relieved.
Then she said that, to pay for primary and high school education reforms, the government would cut funding to universities. Private schools won鈥檛 lose funding and, in some cases, will get more. Yet the ailing TAFE system would get nothing.
So much for an education revolution.
The statement below was released by the Socialist Alliance on June 5.
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Liah Lazarou has been pre-selected by the Socialist Alliance to run for the seat of Adelaide in the federal election in September.
Lazarou is a communications student and a committed grassroots activist. She has been involved in organising workers, students and young people as a member of the Socialist Alliance since 2006.
A new website has published the biggest set of immigration detention records in Australia to date. It will provide unprecedented verification of the endemic self-harm and psychiatric crises that refugee rights campaigners have independently reported for years.
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