The Organisation of American States (OAS) and its current secretary general Luis Almagro has pursued policies that aggravate the current crisis in Venezuela.
Rather than providing a way to help mediate the bitter conflict in Venezuela, Almagro has joined one side.
The position of the OAS sadly reflects the longer history of the organisation.
Victoria鈥檚 Premier Daniel Andrews apologised on May 25 to the state鈥檚 Chinese community for the racism and unjust policies their ancestors endured during the gold rush era.
Two murders and an attempted murder in Portland, Oregon, on the first day of Ramadan (May 26), by a white racist are the latest in a string of hate crimes inspired by President Donald Trump鈥檚 racist rhetoric and actions since he took office.
Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of hate crimes, told Democracy Now! on May 30: 鈥淧resident Trump, whose words in the campaign unleashed against immigrants, against Muslims and others, unleashed a wave of hate crimes and bias incidents, especially right after the election.
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.
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
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.