The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has scored a victory against the privatisation agenda of the state Coalition government after it abandoned plans to privatise the NSW Public Works Heritage Services, UnionsNSW announced on September 2.
About 40 stonemasons, scaffolders and roofers have been maintaining some of Sydney鈥檚 oldest buildings for more than 20 years, but in June last year Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet announced their jobs would be outsourced.
The following statement was released by the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) on September 7.
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The dangerously deteriorating situation that the country now faces, marked by the killings and bombings resulting in the meaningless death of thousands of people, is a result of the war strategy followed by the Rodrigo Duterte regime. The war strategy, which began as a 鈥渨ar against drugs鈥, has now been extended and intensified with the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 in Mindanao.
Hunger strikers begin their fast for 脰calan in Diyarbak谋r on September 5.
A hunger strike was launched in Turkey鈥檚 Kurdish capital Diyarbak谋r on September 5 by politicians and activists demanding a meeting with jailed Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK) leader Abdullah 脰calan.
Protest against Turkish invasion and massacre of civilians. Girk锚 Leg锚, Rojava, August 28.
The statement below was released on September 1 and signed by a range of politicians, academics and activists from around the world. To sign, please send your name, organisation and country to mc@kurdishinstitute.be.
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Hunger striking prisoners Malik al-Qadi, Mahmoud al-Balboul and Mohammad al-Balboul.
In Bethlehem, hundreds of people participated in a march in solidarity with three Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike, .
Sydney College of the Arts students talk about the solidarity they have received for their fight to save the institution.