Rita Hester was found murdered inside her apartment on November 28, 1998. Hester was transgender and also African American, her death highlighting not only the issue of transphobic murder, but also the disproportionate representation of people of colour among its victims.
Her murder is still unsolved but an international day of action known as Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is marked on November 20 each year.
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Hester鈥檚 murder was preceded and followed by other high profile transphobic murders.
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The National Tertiary Education Union released this statement on November 21.
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The Minister for Education Christopher Pyne today introduced the聽Higher Education Support Amendment (Savings and Other Measures) Bill 2013 into parliament, a bill which in the minister鈥檚 own words will be damaging to the university sector.聽
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The bill slashes more than $900 million from university grants over the next four years and will cost students almost $300 million in lost discounts for early repayment of their HECS debts.
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After the storm, the 鈥渟hock doctrine鈥. This is what awaits the Philippines after the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan.
The familiar cycle of 鈥渄isaster capitalism鈥 allows wealthy and politically connected First World corporations to profit obscenely from the suffering of acutely vulnerable disaster-affected communities.
Disaster profiteering is a parasitic tendency deeply embedded in the structures of the neoliberal global economy. It will degrade and corrupt the international 鈥渞elief effort鈥 under way in the Philippines.
Friends of the Earth released this statement on November 21.
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Friends of the Earth has welcomed today鈥檚 announcement by the Premier that the moratorium on the process of unconventional gas fracking will be extended at least until June 2015.
Friends of the Earth campaigns co-ordinator Cam Walker said: 鈥淭his is a good start. Pushing the moratorium out to 2015 will take some of the heat out of the community concern over new fossil fuel projects.
Since capitalism began, socialists have debated how to bring to an end to class divisions and make society more fair and just.
Early on, a split developed between those who thought revolution was necessary to overthrow capitalism, and others who thought a socialist society could be created gradually through parliamentary reforms.
Some socialist parties started with radical politics but gradually became part of the system and gave up on calling for revolution.
On the same day that Tasmania decriminalised abortion, the New South Wales parliament took a big step backwards for women鈥檚 rights. The Legislative Assembly aimed at giving 20-week-old foetuses the same legal rights as human beings.
The Socialist Alliance condemns the violation of Indonesia's national sovereignty through the actions of the Australian government in tapping the mobile phone of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and nine of his closest advisors, including his wife.
These actions are a reflection of how Western nations such as Australia treat poor nations with neo-colonial contempt.
A group of 133 developing nations have walked out of a key part of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. The walk out came amid a conflict over how countries that have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases should be held financially responsible for some of the damage caused by extreme weather in nations with low carbon emissions.
The United States, Australia, Canada and other industrialised countries are pushing for the issue 鈥 known as loss and damage 鈥 to be put off until after the 2015 climate talks in Paris.
Kshama Sawant, an openly declared socialist, was elected to the city council in a major United States city, Seattle, in November鈥檚 ballot. You need to go back to the first half of the 20th century to find anything similar in the US.
The People's Caravan is a grassroots relief effort initiated by , a Filipino party of the marginalised and poor.
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