As security forces repressed anti-government protests in the capital, a military police operation to break up a protest camp left 10 civilians dead, with witnesses claiming they were killed execution-style.
None of this made it into the international media however, because it happened in Brazil, not Venezuela.
The NSW Country Women鈥檚 Association passed a motion at its state conference on May 27 calling for a halt to any further 鈥渦nconventional gas exploration鈥 in NSW 鈥 a ban on coal seam gas. The motion was put by the Maules Creek branch.
It flies in the face of last week鈥檚 announcement by NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro that he wanted an expansion of the CSG industry, although not on the Liverpool Plains.
Less than a year after being installed in power via a constitutional coup, the government of Brazilian President Michel Temer is teetering on the brink of collapse.
Plagued by corruption scandals 鈥 the same pretext used by the right-wing controlled judiciary and parliament to topple centre-left president Dilma Rousseff 鈥 and popularity figures in the single digits, the Temer regime is now facing a growing revolt from below demanding 鈥渄irect elections now!鈥
After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails.
The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike鈥檚 leaders, including imprisoned聽听蹿颈驳耻谤别听, and the聽, according to a statement issued on the morning of May 27 by the prisoners solidarity committee.
An eco-socialist and international coordinator聽for the Greens Party of England and Wales, Derek Wall is challenging Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May as the Greens candidate for May鈥檚 seat of Maidenhead under the slogan 鈥淢ake June the End of May鈥.
Campaigning against racist migration controls, austerity and May鈥檚 support for fox hunting is giving Wall鈥檚 campaign traction, and it enjoys strong support from the Kurdish community.
The following statement was released by Filipino socialist party on May 25 in response to the government's May 23 declaration of martial law in Mindanao for a 60-day period.
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Two hundred people came from as far away as Gympie, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba to join a Thursday morning protest outside Queensland parliament. The protest was against the proposed Adani coal mine in the Galilee basin.
In this week's video, Blair Vidakovich discusses the Uluru Statement and how the left-wing activists should respond to the resurgent fascist-minded alt-right in the US and in Australia. This is particularly pressing in the context of the racist Portland murders.
Since 2011, a聽Remembrance Day commemoration聽of the 2009 massacre of Tamil liberation fighters and their famiies in Sr Lanka has been held in Chennai's Marina Beach in the form of a mass candle-light vigil. But this year, the police violently dispersed the crowd and arrested several leading Tamil聽human rights activists, including Thirumurugan Gandhi , Daison Jose , Ilamaran and Arun.聽