More than two-thirds of Brazilians oppose the coup government that replaced elected president Dilma Rousseff in May, a recent poll found. The Ipsos poll also found that more than half of Brazil supports holding presidential elections this year.
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More than two-thirds of Brazilians oppose the coup government that replaced elected president Dilma Rousseff in May, a recent poll found. The Ipsos poll also found that more than half of Brazil supports holding presidential elections this year.
As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimising the politics of the late socialist president Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, secret emails published by WikiLeaks reveal.
Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as Secretary of State, but she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilisation efforts, leaked emails show.
Santiago, July 24. Photo: EFE.
Pressured by the recent large protests rejecting the private system of pensions inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet announced on July 26 that her administration would reform the system.
New at LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal.聽Philippines: the contradictions of Duterte鈥檚 regime,聽Profile of the early communist women鈥檚 movement聽and聽Poland between social nationalism and the new left.
The six richest countries in the world, who make up almost 60% of the world鈥檚 economy, are hosting less than 9% of the total number of refugees in the world, a July 18 report by British charity Oxfam found.
Photos by Louise Chen
The Melbourne rally for justice for the children in the Youth Detention Centre occupied the Flinders St intersection, effectively shutting it down and blocking city traffic into the early hours of the morning, when police moved in.
Organised by Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) several hundred Aboriginal rights activists gathered for the rally at the State Library on Saturday July 30.
It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast than that between the 10th National Convention of Portugal's Left Bloc, held in Lisbon from June 24 to 26, and its predecessor, held in the same city 18 months ago.
In 2014, the 9th National Convention of the radical left force 鈥 formed in 1999 to unite several left currents 鈥 had brought the organisation to the brink of a 50鈥50 split.
Following a community campaign, the Queensland government has announced it will deregister Wicked Campers vans that "fail to comply with determinations by the Advertising Standards Bureau". The vans are banned in northern NSW council caravan parks and bans are being considered by the Tasmanian government.
Thousands of people have rallied at cities across Australia in response to the footage coming out on ABC's Four Corners showing the torture of Aboriginal kids in the Darwin Don Dale correction centre.
Rallies are demanding the people responsible be brought to justice and the Don Dale correction centre be shut down.
Here are photos of the rallies:
Sydney
Photos by Zebedee Parkes
Turkey is shutting down more than 100 media outlets and is purging more than 1000 military personnel, it was announced on July 27 as President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an's government continues to tighten its grip on power after a failed military coup on July 15.
In all, 131 media outlets have been shut down, including television stations, newspapers and magazines. The government has begun detaining journalists, with 90 reporters ordered to be round up.
91自拍论坛 TV's Zebedee Parkes has had his short film has been officially selected to be screened at the Washington DC-based Global Impact Film Fest later this month.
Privatisation continues to be touted as a quick fix, so the mantra goes 鈥減ublic sector bad, private sector good鈥.
That is, using community funds and resources to build up a vital service or piece of infrastructure, usually over a period of many years, then when there is a 鈥渂udget crisis鈥 selling it off to yield a quick cash injection and the removal of an expense from the ledger 鈥 regardless of whether it is generating income or not 鈥 while giving sweetheart deals to the new owners to ensure monopoly-like conditions to maximise their profits.
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