Palestine solidarity protest planned
WOLLONGONG — At a May 11 meeting, Palestinian solidarity activists decided to call a protest on May 25 to help free Palestine. The rally will begin at 10.30 am outside Fred Moore House in Lowden Square and
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MALAYSIA: May Day gathering terrorised by
police
KUALA LUMPUR What was to be a peaceful gathering of progressive
workers and social justice activists on May 1 at Kuala Lumpur City Centre
(KLCC Twin Towers) turned into mayhem when
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), a network of more than 200 non-government organisations, has attacked Israel's refusal to allow United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan's fact-finding mission to the ravaged West Bank refugee camp of
BY ROSA ZULU
HARARE — More 6000 workers gathered for the May 1 rally in the Gwanzura stadium here enthusiastically supported socialist MP Munyaradzi Gwisai's criticism of the participation of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in
A federal judge in Houston in April ruled that, under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it is legal for an executive from a US company to bribe a foreign official to reduce the company's tax burden or customs duties in another country.
The case
Embrace the ChaosOzomatliInterscope Records
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Ozomatli's new album, Embrace the Chaos, has a different feel to the Los Angeles-based band's self-titled debut album. But it is still full of the joy of life
BY NEW YORK TRANSFER
NEWS COLLECTIVE
NEW YORK The administration of US President George Bush lumped
Cuba into its war on terrorism on May 6 placing the country on a second-tier
axis of evil list with Syria and Libya.
The US
Astonishing! I am becomea communist, a leftie, a red-ragger, revolutionary
surely not! Che, that handsomehero on the wall is one ofthose — not me?Yet I want a socialism
that's funa green onewith no national flag. No more
false grim imagesof
Representatives from nine Third World countries, led by Cuba, proposed during a February World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiation session that future agricultural trade rules should be geared towards meeting the Third World's development needs.
BY HELEN SLANEY
MELBOURNE — Melbourne University Student Union staff are on indefinite strike and students are occupying MUSU's education office, in protest at student officials' attacks on campus activists and staff.
On May 2, students using
Dita Sari is a former Indonesian political prisoner and is chairperson of the militant Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI) union federation. She is also a leading member of the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (PRD). Green Left
BY EVA CHENG
Four of Pakistan's oppressed national groups — the Sindhi, Pashtuns, Baluchi and Seraiki — are joining forces to oppose their domination by the Punjabi ruling class.
In Sydney to attend the second Asia Pacific Solidarity
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