In Northern Ireland 鈥 the partitioned statelet made up of the six Irish counties still claimed by Britain 鈥 the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the largest unionist party (supporters of an ongoing 鈥渦nion鈥 with Britain).
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Nearly one in five frontline firefighter jobs have been cut since 2010, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said, the on July 6.
The union has warned that continued 鈥渟avage鈥 cuts seriously threaten public safety. It said a post-war record of 11,000 jobs had gone in the past seven years. The cuts include almost 8000 full-time firefighters and nearly 3000 鈥渞etained鈥 (on-call) workers.
In February, a video filmed in the village of Mwanza Lomba in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa, went viral.
It showed unarmed civilians 鈥 including children 鈥 being massacred by soldiers of the state army. The clip quickly moved from the social networks onto television news channels around the world. But then it vanished again without any further debate about what it meant and what it revealed.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe recently won a major legal victory in federal court which may have the power to force the shutdown of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.
The cycle of belligerency and threat making on both sides is intensifying. And it is always possible that a miscalculation could trigger a new war, with devastating consequences.聽
But even if a new war is averted, the ongoing embargo against North Korea and continual threats of war are themselves costly: they promote and legitimise greater military spending and militarisation more generally, at the expense of needed social programs, in Japan, China, the US, and the two Koreas.
As the European Union called on member countries to contribute more to the effort to resettle refugees, Amnesty International released聽聽on July 5 that said EU policies have made the Mediterranean route from Africa to Europe more deadly than ever for the tens of thousands of refugees who attempt the crossing.
NSW GREENS SENATOR聽told the ABC鈥檚 Insiders program on July 2 that, globally, mass movements are on the rise and that she could see a change in how politics works. She also said that parliament was 鈥渋mportant to me, but it is not the main game鈥.
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 SUSAN PRICE聽caught up with Senator Rhiannon at the Students of Sustainability conference in Newcastle on July 4 and asked her about politics today.聽
After burying former dictator聽Ferdinand Marcos鈥 remains at the national heroes鈥 cemetery and helping Ferdinand鈥檚 son聽Bongbong Marcos in his bid to become vice president, Duterte has now placed all of Mindanao 鈥 and threatened to place the entire country 鈥 under martial law.聽
Today, we may now be just one 鈥渟ecurity crisis鈥 away from outright military rule.
The historical and current injustices following the establishment of industry superannuation and the subsequent undermining of this important social policy initiative needs to be scrutinised.
This year, progressive people in Australia have had more cause than usual to pay attention to international politics.
US President Donald Trump on the right shows the depths to which capitalist politics can plunge while British Labour leaderJeremy Corbyn on the left has given many cause for new hope and inspiration.
Solidarity with the Kurdish freedom struggle was stepped up at an inspiring conference held in Melbourne over the June 30鈥揓uly 1 weekend.
The conference, held at Victoria University (VU), discussed the bold experiment in radical democracy, feminism and ecology that is taking place in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS). Most importantly, the conference resolved: 鈥淚t is a duty of supporters of the liberation struggle in northern Syria to make determined efforts to publicise its inspiring achievements and build practical solidarity with it鈥.
(SoS) is an annual student conference organised by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN).
This year鈥檚 SoS conference was held in Newcastle on Awabakal and Worimi land at the Hunter TAFE campus from June 30 to July 5. Conference attendees camped on the campus oval for four days of workshops and plenary sessions, stunts and actions, film screenings, field trips, guerrilla gardening, an anti-fashion show, an open mic night and a dance party.
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