Opposition groups in Venezuela are currently engaged in a campaign to overthrow the democratically-elected government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Portrayed by the media as a peaceful, democratic movement, it is clear that what Venezuela is experiencing is a right-wing destabilisation campaign that not only seeks to remove Maduro but to roll back the important gains of the country鈥檚 Bolivarian Revolution.
The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling on July 26 that confirmed an earlier General Court decision removing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from the EU's list of "terrorist organisations".
The LTTE was an armed organisation fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. It was formed in response to decades of discrimination and repression against the Tamil minority by the Sri Lankan government.
In Australia, the National Electricity Market is rapidly becoming dysfunctional, with power shortages, blackouts and soaring prices making headlines.
Private companies are refusing to invest in new fossil fuel generators to replace those that have closed. This 鈥渋nvestment strike鈥 is due partly to uncertainty about carbon pricing and partly to increasingly volatile spot prices received by generators.
Appearing before a backdrop of smiling uniformed police officers on July 28,聽US President 聽toward people they arrest in a speech given at Suffolk County Community College on New York鈥檚 Long Island.
Popular mobilisation in the Rif region in Morocco鈥檚 north have continued and spread to several of the North African country鈥檚 towns, despite repression by security forces and the regime's attempts to discredit the movement.
Meanwhile, several thousand police officers have been sent to Al Hoceima to stop the demonstrations.
The Turkish government has proposed a new law which will ban the use of the words and terms聽鈥淜urdistan鈥, 鈥淜urdish city/cities鈥 and 鈥淎rmenian Genocide鈥 in parliament.
Parliamentarians who use these words or terms will be fined 12,000 Turkish liras (about $4500) and be banned from participating in three聽sessions in the Grand Assembly.
Carrying placards, which opposition parties often do to criticise the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, will also be banned.
As the 19th round of trade negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) took place in Hyderabad, India from 17-28 July, trade unions and civil society groups in the country have joined forces to voice concerns over the trade deal, and called for more transparency.聽
RCEP is a proposed mega regional free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated by 16 countries, including ASEAN members and its six FTA partners 鈥 namely India, China, Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.
Nuclear weapons are in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. But the adoption of a new United Nations treaty could kickstart a re-energised effort to abolish these expensive, dangerous and immoral weapons.
On July 7, the UN General Assembly adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the nuclear ban treaty. It was voted in by 122 countries, with only one country voting against.
However, all nine nuclear weapon states, and most nuclear umbrella states, failed to attend the treaty negotiations and boycotted the vote.
Queensland Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk鈥檚 2015 election commitments to transparent decision making, no 鈥渟ecret deals鈥 and that the Adani project must 鈥渟tand alone on its feet ... on the economics of the project itself鈥 have been challenged by documents released under a Right to Information request.
In Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, director Joe Piscatella depicts Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and his comrades struggles from 2011-16 against Chinese government attempts to impose control on the former British Colony.
鈥淭he general idea of this little book is to understand and explain why Marx will still be read in the twenty-first century, not only as a monument of the past, but as a contemporary author 鈥 contemporary both because of the questions he poses for philosophy and because of the concepts he offers it,鈥 French philosopher Etienne Balibar writes in The Philosophy of Marx.
With some reservations, I feel he achieves this goal. It is a thought-provoking book, but it may disappoint readers who seek either an introduction to Marx鈥檚 philosophy or a straightforward account of how Marx鈥檚 ideas can inspire focused political action in the 21st century.
After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) took place on July 30. The result was a huge of more than 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave Chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm.