Stephen Jolly, the Socialist Party candidate for Richmond, is a high profile activist with electoral runs on the board.
He came to prominence with the campaign to reopen Richmond Secondary College in the early 1990s, and has been on the frontlines of many campaigns in Melbourne鈥檚 inner north since, including recent efforts to stop the East West Link and to defend public housing.
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Kyol Blakeney was elected President of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at the University of Sydney last month and the makeup of the new council promises a fresh approach to student politics.
Blakeney鈥檚 election win marks the first Grassroots and non-Labor candidate to run the SRC in 14 years. One of his main aims as president next year is to create more affordable living circumstances for students.
Labor and Coalition candidates avoided participating in a climate change election forum held on November 12 in the marginal Labor/Greens seat of Northcote.
Last week local climate group, Darebin Climate Action Now (DCAN) held a mock climate forum outside Northcote Town Hall, with empty chairs for Labor and Liberal candidates. DCAN members held a banner: 鈥淲ho is dodging climate debate?鈥
As one Liberal Party insider Sunday Age recently: 鈥淭he last thing the Coalition wants to do is to draw attention to environment policy, because there isn鈥檛 one."
On November 9, 2.305 million residents of Catalonia defied a November 4 Spanish Constitutional Court ruling and voted on what future political status they wanted for their country, now one of the 17 鈥渁utonomous communities鈥 (regions) within the Spanish state.
Because of their rebellion 鈥 festive but determined 鈥 it was not just another voting day. Initiative for Catalonia-Greens (ICV) co-coordinator Joan Herrera called it 鈥渢he biggest demonstration in the history of this country鈥.
Leaders from around the world will descend on Brisbane this week for the G20 economic forum. In response, people are gathering in Brisbane to hold alternative discussions about transforming society to a more just and sustainable one.
Bolivian President Evo Morales asked the Mexican government on November 10 to clarify the case of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teachers college. The students were forcibly disappeared in September after an attack by local police, in which six people were also killed.
鈥淚 wish to express our solidarity with the families of the 43 students,鈥 Morales said during a press conference. 鈥淲e regret what has happened in Mexico.鈥
Nearly twenty-five years to the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialist party Die Linke (鈥淭he Left鈥) looks set to form government in the eastern German state of Thuringia for the first time.
After two months of uncertainty following September 14 state elections, the way was cleared for Die Linke to head a coalition government in December, alongside the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, on November 4 when nearly 70% of SPD members in Thuringia voted to enter the coalition.
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