This is a video explaining the current situation in Nepal and providing a glimpse into the mass resistance on the streets to the elite鈥檚 "soft coup" to bring down the Maoist-led elected government
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Statement by the Democratic Socialist Perspective,
May 5, 2009.
Seven activists associated with Israeli anti-military recruitment groups New Profile and Target 21 have been arrested in the latest attack on internal dissent in Israel, 贬补鈥檃谤别迟锄 said on April 27.
The ninth Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela, sponsored by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), visited Venezuela from April 16 to 24. Participants saw first-hand the reality of the Bolivarian revolution, led by socialist president Hugo Chavez.
After Israel鈥檚 December-January military assault on Gaza, the global boycott campaign against Israel is starting to have an impact.
More than 50 people gathered outside the Mercure Hotel in Hobart on April 30 where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and state premiers met for the Council of Australian Governments forum.
The nightmarish prospect of a scarred Amazonian jungle reeking of diesel fumes from end to end, as heavy-laden trucks thunder by in round-the-clock convoys, is fast becoming a reality.
On March 21, Anna Bligh鈥檚 election victory night, she answered a question from a journalist about how it felt to be the first female premier to be elected in Australia. She suggested the snide remarks made when she was a young woman, about Queensland being a 鈥渂ackward鈥 state, could now be laid to rest.
For more than 100 years the WA seat of Fremantle has been safe Labor territory. Now, the May 16 state by-election for the seat is tipped to be a neck-and-neck race between ALP candidate Peter Tagliaferri and Adele Carles from the Greens.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning industrial action at most Victorian universities on May 21.
I recently spent a week talking to people in Rolpa, an especially underdeveloped hilly district in Nepal鈥檚 mid-western region.
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