This is a video explaining the current situation in Nepal and providing a glimpse into the mass resistance on the streets to the elite鈥檚 "soft coup" to bring down the Maoist-led elected government
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Statement by the Democratic Socialist Perspective,
May 5, 2009.
The following open letter is to Tasmanian federal Labor MP Duncan Kerr, from Resistance.
The Kimberley Land Council has made a controversial in-principle agreement with Woodside Petroleum and the federal and WA state governments to develop a liquefied natural gas project at James Price Point near Broome.
The government and most of the mainstream media want Australia to believe we are facing a 鈥渟urge鈥 of asylum seekers, threatening Australian borders as they arrive in dangerous and non-seaworthy boats.
More than 300 people marched for May Day in Wollongong on May 2. The lead banner read: 聯People before Profits; Export CEOs not Jobs!聰. There were many different union and community contingents.
The article below is based on an April 30 statement by the Stop the War Coalition Sydney .
On April 29, PM Kevin Rudd announced an extra 450 troops would be sent to Afghanistan to participate in the latest US-led 鈥渟urge鈥.
Construction company John Holland and unions are locked in discussions to settle a nine-week-long industrial dispute.
Despite the economic crisis, the Australian government has announced it will increase military spending by billions of dollars over the next 20 years.
A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine鈥檚 Gaza Strip.
In an act of peaceful civil disobedience, more than 500 Tamils occupied George Street in Sydney鈥檚 CBD for more than an hour. The May 1 action protested the genocide being carried out by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people in the north and east of the country.
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