The Peruvian government has renewed its commitment to several controversial mining mega-projects. The projects have provoked huge regional protests against the environmentally destructive expansion plans of foreign mining corporations.
Speaking at a mining industry conference held in the southern city of Arequipa on September 16, Minister of Energy and Mines Jorge Merino indicated that Conga (in Cajamarca), Tia Maria (in Arequipa) and Corani (in Puno) will be developed with the backing of President Ollanta Humala's administration.
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A student general meeting was held at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney on October 8, as part of the student campaign against the federal government鈥檚 $2.7 billion funding cuts to universities across Australia.
A socialist educational conference, 鈥淗ow to make a revolution鈥, is being held in Brisbane over December 13 to 15. This conference is being organised by Resistance Socialist Youth and the Socialist Alliance, and aims to be an event that gives young people the skills and perspectives to radically change the world.
Sydney鈥檚 Refugee Action Coalition released the statement below on October 12.
When the global financial crisis (GFC) unfolded in 2008, the unemployment rate for 15 to 19-year-olds looking for full-time work in Australia increased from 15% to 25%. It has remained at this level ever since.
In July, it stood at 25.5%. However, in the 10 areas listed by the Department of Human Services as the most disadvantaged in the country, the youth unemployment rate is more than 40%.
鈥淲e'll pretend we've stopped the boats and the conditions under which we pretend they've stopped,鈥 seems to be the motto of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government.
British Tory MP Douglas Hogg made world headlines in 2009 when he was as a political expense. Amid public uproar, he was forced to stand down while his claim was investigated. He insisted the claim was legitimate, but eventually repaid the money.
The proposed the East West tunnel in Melbourne鈥檚 inner north will be environmentally, socially and economically disastrous. It is not a solution to the problem of congestion on Melbourne鈥檚 Eastern freeway.
Countries are 鈥減ieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,鈥 wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed.
The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody facade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are the great game.
The al-Shabaab shopping mall killers came from Somalia. If any country is an imperial metaphor, it is Somalia. Sharing a common language and religion, Somalis have been divided between the British, French, Italians and Ethiopians.
The proposed East-West tunnel being built in Melbourne鈥檚 inner-north has been delayed again as residents prevented soil testing by staging rolling protest actions. But the battle is likely to resume soon.
Last year, more than 5000 people gathered in Brunswick to protest violence against women. It was the largest Reclaim the Night mobilisation since the early 1990s.
Reclaim the Night (or Take Back the Night in the United States) is a global feminist movement that protests against the specific forms of harassment, victim blaming, sexual assault and violence experienced by women.
After a hard-fought industrial campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at the University of Sydney has just voted to accept a new workplace agreement.
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