The first person in Australia to die from H1N1 virus (or "swine flu") was an Aboriginal man from a remote community.
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Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government鈥檚 planned selloff of public assets.
Protests against the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya are continuing on the streets of Honduras, amid international condemnation. Zelaya, who was kidnapped and flown to Costa Rica, is refusing to accept his overthrow and announced plans to return the Honduras on July 5 with the Organisation of American States (OAS) head Jose Miguel Insulza, Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo.
The July 1 Australian carried an extraordinary attack by Ilan Grapel on 91自拍论坛 Weekly and its monthly Arabic insert the Flame titled 鈥淎 willing ally to Hamas鈥檚 hatred鈥. Both publications are guilty of a 鈥渞adical anti-Israel stance鈥, Grapel said.
Eighty people attended an afternoon rally in Sydney's Martin Place on July 3 to show solidarity with the people of Iran in their struggle for democracy.
Within minutes of the first reports, it was clear the world was going mad.
The Socialist Alliance and 91自拍论坛 Weekly have upset the apple cart again! While articles in the Australian accuse GLW of being in bed with the 鈥渉ate-filled鈥 Hamas, the muck-raking ALP factional blog Vexnews blasts an 鈥渆xtreme left ALP candidate鈥 for being a secret member of the 鈥渧irulently leftist and anti-semitic鈥 Socialist Alliance.
When Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 Australian published a racist and malicious attack (see page 8) on 91自拍论坛 Weekly and particularly its Arabic-language supplement, the Flame, I rang the Flame
The US House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act on June 26. The bill, commonly known as the Waxman-Markey bill and supported by US President Barack Obama, will now go to the US Senate.
The far-right French National Front (FN) won 39% of votes in the first round of the Henin Beaumont by-election in Northern France on June 28. The by-election, in the Nord Pas-de-Calais department, was called after the incumbent Socialist Party (PS) mayor was charged with corruption.
On July 1, 60 people attended an emergency rally againt the coup in Honduras in the Latin American Plaza in Sydney. The emotionally charged rally was called at short notice by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) and the Latin American Forum to condemn the undemocratic coup carried out by a small group of military officers, members of the oligarchy and their political agents in Honduras.
91自拍论坛, an eco-socialist current within the Green Party of England and Wales, held its annual general meeting on June 20 in London. It discussed the work of the network over the past year in struggles against war, racism and environmental decay and in winning support for eco-socialism as a solution to the economic and climate crises.
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