Guests attending Westpac鈥檚 black tie 200th birthday gala dinner on April 8 were greeted by hundreds of protesters outside the event at Carriageworks in Redfern, who angrily denounced Westpac for not distancing itself from Adani鈥檚 proposed Carmichael coalmine in Queensland's Galilee basin.
Shaun Murray climbed some scaffolding and chained himself to the building, interrupting the dinner for 90 minutes.
A record number of Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike to coincide with Palestinian Prisoners鈥 Day on April 16.
More than 1500 prisoners are taking part in the largest mass hunger strike in recent years. Marwan Barghouti, sentenced by Israel to five life sentences, is leading a renewed campaign to draw attention to the conditions Palestinian prisoners face.
It also aims to highlight the oppressive nature of Israel鈥檚 colonial occupation that makes arrests of Palestinian people all but inevitable.
Shock followed by surprise followed by upset. The French presidential election, whose first round is April 23, is yet another expression of the political volatility produced by the aftershocks of the biggest economic recession since the 1930s and the incapacity of both neo-liberalism and social democracy to maintain support for their pro-austerity governments.
A groundbreaking report was released last month on the future of drug policy in Australia. The report, Can Australia respond to drugs more effectively and safely? openly acknowledged the failure of Australia鈥檚 punitive drug policies and called for a steady path towards decriminalisation.
罢补蝉尘补苍颈补鈥檚 was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia鈥檚 history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
The United States administration of Donald Trump has so far carried out at least 70 air strikes in Yemen, on April 4, more than twice as many as those carried out last year under the Barck Obama administration, according to data provided by the Pentagon.
The movement behind weeks of social unrest in French Guiana, a French colony in South America of about a quarter of a million people, said on April 17 it would extend protest actins until the government signs a draft accord on an emergency financial package and reopens talks on further funds.
The Collective to Get Guiana Moving summed up its demands in a seven-page draft sent to the government on April 16. If accepted the movement said it would 鈥渟uspend the movement in its present form鈥.
The Party of the European Left (PEL), which is made up of left groups across Europe, held its in聽Malaga, on the southern coast of Spain, from March 31 to April 2.
The three-day gathering brought together left-wing, socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-austerity parties from across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
In January last year, many thousands of academics around the world signed the statement 鈥淲e will not be a party to this crime鈥, which called for peace in Turkey.
The statement was issued in solidarity with courageous academics in Turkey who had formed the Academics for Peace group and were working for an end to state terror in Turkish Kurdistan. The group pushed for the resumption of peace talks between the Turkish government and the Kurdish liberation movement, the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK).
Balochistan, in Pakistan鈥檚 south-west, is the site of an intense struggle for self-determination that has been met with violent repression from the Pakistani state.聽Baloch Students Organisation-Azad (BSO-A), which organises for Baloch self-determination, released the statement below calling for justice for Baloch activist Zahid Baloch, who was abducted in 2014.
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With the appointment of hardline Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of India鈥檚 most populous state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), the Indian Peoples鈥 Party (BJP) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown what an extremist force can do when freed of the restraints of coalition partners or parliamentary numbers.
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