Socialist Party (Australia)
Australia: Socialist Party local councillor re-elected in Yarra, Melbourne
Re-elected socialist municipal councillor Steve Jolly.
West Papua: Support workers at the Freeport-McMoRan Grasberg mine striking for a wage increase
Statement by Asia-Pacific left and workers’ organisations
[To add your organisation's support, email: Ign Mahendra K at
international@prp-indonesia.org.]
January 27, 2010 -- On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 Richter scale earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake caused great destruction and 200,000 people are thought to be dead. Further, 3 million Haitians have been rendered homeless by the quake, which also damaged many public service buildings, such as hospitals and schools.
The quake has caused Haitians, who have struggled under decades of poverty and imperialist intervention and exploitation, even deeper suffering. Approximately 75% of Haitians earned less than US$2 per day and 56% of Haitians – around 4.5 million people – earned less than $1 per day. Most Haitians live in houses made of adobe and mud.