During the so-called Troubles in the six counties in Ireland鈥檚 north still claimed by Britain, the assassination of republican activists opposing British occupation was a regular occurrence at the hands of security forces or pro-British 鈥渓oyalist鈥 terrorist groups (often with ties to the security forces). The article published below, abridged from
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The January 15 Australian reported that outback prospector Sam Tomarchio had 鈥渟truck a new kind of gold in Western Australia by taking control of Aboriginal Centrelink payments鈥.
When the Sea Shepherd vessel Ady Gil sank on January 8 following a collision with a ship in the Japanese whaling fleet, snap protests were called outside Japanese embassy offices in Australia. For some, this has become a political football to kick their own goals, but the cause of marine conservation deserves better.
When the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly passed a civil unions bill, on November 11, 2009, granting same-sex couples the right to legally binding ceremonies, speculation abounded about how long it would last.
More than 1400 activists from 43 countries travelled to Egypt to mark the first anniversary of Israel's December 2008-January 2009 assault on the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Statistics:
鈥 The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports a 17 year gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia.
鈥 Twice as many Aboriginal babies are of low birth weight as non-Aboriginal babies.
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On January 7, hundreds of Hondurans risked violent repression by the police and military to protest outside the national parliament building against the coup regime鈥檚 decision to withdraw the country from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).
Daniel Bensaid was a veteran French socialist activist and theoretician. A member of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), he was also a leader of the Fourth International. In the article below, slightly abridged from Francois Sabado, an NPA activist and FI leader, pays respect to his friend and comrade.
The integrity of the European Union鈥檚 embattled Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was rocked by revelations in December that carbon-trading tax fraud has cost European taxpayers more than 鈧5 billion.
The 15th Conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP15) in December was marked by a farcical, undemocratic process whereby a handful of rich countries sought to impose a deal worked out in secret. That deal not only failed to meet the needs of humanity as dictated by science, but was actually a step backwards from already existing UN agreements.
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti鈥檚 capital city on January 12. But it's no accident that so much of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone.
An independent United Nations human rights expert said on January 7 there are strong indications that a video of alleged extrajudicial executions by Sri Lankan soldiers that aired last August on British television is authentic, a UN News Centre article said that day.
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