The Radical Ideas Conference organised by Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance over August 18 to 20 attracted young and older radicals committed to 鈥渟parking the resistance鈥.
, an Arrente woman, union activist and writer joined abortion rights and Socialist Alliance activist Kamala Emanuel and from Resistance in a fascinating panel 鈥淲omen fight back against misogyny and rape culture鈥.
Townsville pizza delivery driver Casey Salt and the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) are taking Domino's to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in the latest challenge to unfair agreements struck between big retail and fast food employers and the conservative Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association (SDA).
Salt will ask the FWC to terminate an exploitative agreement her employer made with the SDA that has left workers underpaid tens of millions of dollars
, the retired Brazilian-Congolese AFL star, has described Collingwood as a 鈥渂oys鈥 club for racist and sexist jokes鈥 in comments reported by the media ahead of the August 27 screening聽 of the SBS documentary Fair Game. Lumumba played 199 games for Collingwood between 2005-14.
Rescue personnel had discovered 499 dead bodies as of August 20, since a聽聽hit near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown on August 14, the city's chief coroner said. Humanitarian groups say that more than 600 people remain missing.
The worst flood-related tragedy Africa has seen in years occurred when the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed after heavy rain. It buried parts of the mountainous suburbs of Regent town, overwhelming relief efforts in one of the world鈥檚 poorest countries.
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger portrays British Marxist cultural commentator John Berger over a period of five years.
Peasants across Africa are intensifying their struggles against land grabs and other harmful policies that promote industrial agriculture. At a recent international conference organised by the world鈥檚 largest peasant movement, Via Campesina, African peasants had opportunities to share their experiences of struggle and to learn.
鈥淚t is amazing to see how linked our struggles are,鈥 said Nicolette Cupido from the Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) in South Africa.
Leafing through my August 1 copy of 91自拍论坛 Weekly, I thought I spotted an egregious typo. Surely, Barry Sheppard鈥檚 dispatch from San Francisco, 鈥Bernie Sanders鈥 Democratic Party strategy fatally flawed鈥 in issue 1148 had had an apostrophe inserted in the headline where there should have been a colon.
Workers employed in the Corporate and Technical Division of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) will vote on a new enterprise agreement during the two weeks beginning on August 31. The Corporate and Technical Division includes non-firefighting employees of the MFB, such as payroll and finance staff and computer technicians.
In an August 9 speech to parliament, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson once again backed the right-wing campaign against Venezuela鈥檚 democracy and national sovereignty.
His statements follow a June 21 speech to the Senate, where he spoke out against what he claimed was an 鈥渋ncreasingly anti-democratic and corrupted government under President Nicolas Maduro鈥, while praising the 鈥渄emocratic and peaceful鈥 protests led by Venezuela鈥檚 right-wing opposition.
An air strike by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition on a hotel near the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed dozens of people on August 23, multiple news agencies have reported. It came as a humanitarian crisis extended its grip on the impoverished nation.
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Phoenix, Arizona when US President Donald Trump held a campaign rally on August 22, the first since his administration was engulfed by mass outrage following his remarks about the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, that included a far-right terrorist attack that left one peaceful protester dead.
United States President Donald Trump announced that the US would continue the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which is already the longest war in US history, Democracy Now! on August 22.
The Pentagon is likely to deploy about 4000 more US troops to Afghanistan in the coming months. In recent months, the US has intensified its air war in Afghanistan. During June, the US carried out 389 airstrikes in Afghanistan 鈥 the highest monthly total in five years.