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CUBA: 'End barbarity against Palestinian people'

BY RICARDO ALARCON [The following message was sent on April 5 by Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.] In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli

Write on: Letters to the editor

Drugs industry The current debate around the use of currently illicit drugs in the Northern Territory provides a perfect opportunity for government and the community to look at alternatives to the current approach of prohibition. Psychedelics,

and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health

and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health On newsstands advertising the Melbourne Herald Sun on April 11, the banner headline declared a "Women's Health Alarm". This was a reference to the ruling by the Health Insurance

Action Updates

Woomera reportback #1 PERTH — More than 100 students from three universities — Curtin, Murdoch and the University of Western Australia — heard reports from the Easter protest outside the Woomera refugee detention centre in outback South

INDIA: Millions strike against neo-liberalism

BY EVA CHENG More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats of the

The World Vision message

BY TAMARA PEARSON A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help. One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After

Alternatives to detention

BY SARAH STEPHEN Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were

CUBA: Not the Saturday night movie

BY KAREN FLETCHER HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT). Venezolana de

VENEZUELA: Uprising defeats US-backed coup

BY FEDERICO FUENTES

The simple slogan on a wall in Caracas explained it all: "Yankee, game over. You lost". Within the space of 48 hours, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was overthrown by a military coup, only to be swept back to power by an uprising of the Venezuelan people.