The plan had seemed so well organised.
Its first stage was executed on October 1 last year when the ruling elite of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) got the party鈥檚 Federal Political Committee (FPC) to force the resignation of general secretary Pedro Sanchez.
In its decade-long run, Tel Aviv鈥檚 LGBT Film Festival (TLVFest) has never before been hit with such pressure from聽the support of Palestine. Now, nearly half of its international guests have pulled out from taking part.
British rock band Radiohead have come under pressure by Palestine solidarity activists, who are calling for the band to cancel its July 19 Tel Aviv gig as part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign.
Google Maps is ahead of the curve. The growing calls for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed in response to the tennis star鈥檚 offensive homophobic comments has resulted in the Melbourne arena the Evonne Goolagong Arena.
South African President Jacob Zuma鈥檚 recent cabinet reshuffle is nothing more and nothing less than the latest instalment of a long-running story of the capture of the African National Congress (ANC) and the post-1994 democratic state it has politically run.聽
It is but a consequence of a political, economic and social crisis that has been forged and fed by the ANC 鈥 and its Alliance partners, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) 鈥 as a whole, in conjunction with capital.聽
Brazil's trade union confederations have called for a new general strike to shut down the country鈥檚 largest cities on June 30 in protest at neoliberal labour and retirement pension reforms, as well as to demand the resignation of unelected president Michel Temer who is currently embroiled in several corruption controversies.
David Kilcullen operates in the post-structural, morally grey nether world that neoliberalism has created.聽Not quite a mercenary 鈥 but not much better 鈥 he slides between being an Australian soldier, a top-level聽civilian strategic thinking adviser to the US military, a 鈥渟ecurity consultant鈥 and an academic.
An important debate has opened up among the left, both within Venezuela and internationally, as a result of the recent turmoil in the country.
In an attempt to bring the views of grassroots Venezuelan militants to an English-speaking audience, 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Federico Fuentes interviewed Stalin Perez Borges.
A life-long union and socialist activist, Perez Borges is today a member of the United League of Chavista Socialists (LUCHAS), a radical current within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
At the recent G7 summit, held May 26-27 in Taormina, Italy, US President Donald Trump said the US was going to leave the Paris Agreement on climate change, a move that may have a devastating effect for the whole planet.
In response to Trump鈥檚 declarations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel labelled Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May as unreliable partners, saying 鈥渨e must fight for our own future on our own, for our destiny as Europeans鈥.
Sarah Ayoub was baking bread. She was putting a loaf into a clay oven when she heard the explosions.
That was on June 5, 1967, the day Israel declared war against Egypt.
As Israel鈥檚 tanks drew closer, Sarah grew increasingly worried about Munther, her husband. He had gone out to work, transporting goods along with a merchant.
After an hour passed, he made it back to their home in聽, part of Gaza City.
The NSW Department of Planning & Environment admitted on June 7 that it had been inundated with more than 23,000 mostly oppositional submissions to corporate giant Santos鈥 plan for a gas field in the Pilliga region in north-western NSW.
The department has now totalled the figures: more than 18,000 鈥渇orm submissions鈥 were sent in 鈥 meaning that many people took advantage of anti-fracking groups鈥 efforts to broaden the anti-gas campaign, by signing a form and adding their personal view to a statement of concern.
Once again the mainstream media is using lurid headlines and racist hyperbole to convince us that Australia is under threat from the spectre of Islamist terrorism.
Right-wing columnists are whipping themselves into a frenzy calling for further curbs on the already minuscule opportunity for refugees to settle in Australia, further criminalisation of ideological views and imprisonment without conviction. 聽