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Robyn Marshall, Caracas Jorge Rodriguez, one of the five members of Venezuela's National Elections Council (CNE), announced on April 14 that the re-verification of signatures on the right-wing opposition's petition for a referendum to recall
Federal treasurer Peter Costello's superannuation plan is just what you would expect from a government that does nothing for workers, unless it first means a profit for the bosses. Costello wants a flood of cut-price pensioners who "choose" to
Max Lane Despite what some media may tell us, the 2004 Indonesian election results indicate that there is no nostalgic swing to the past, but instead a popular rejection of the elit politik. Not a single major political party has increased its
Sarah Stephen Mahmod Salem Yussef, an Iraqi refugee now living in Brisbane on a temporary protection visa, told the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 6 that he saw armed Indonesian police on the beach at Cipanas in Indonesia and in small boats
Andrew Watson After years of retreat under conservative leaderships, sections of the trade union movement are today experiencing a revival of militancy and rank-and-file workplace organising. Socialists are playing a leading role in rebuilding
Rohan Pearce In the early days of the battle for Fallujah and the Shiite militia rebellion, almost every journalist in the corporate media would begin their reports with dire warnings about a country sliding towards civil war. In fact, the
SYDNEY — Canadian academic Leo Panitch discussed the making of global capitalism at a meeting of 25 people on April 14, organised by the Socialist Alliance. Panitch is co-editor of Socialist Register, a professor of political science at York
2 ACT Labor government bans appeals CANBERRA - On April 16, the ACT ALP government responded to the Save the Ridge group's March 31 court victory by announcing not only an appeal, but also a change to land planning regulations so that objections
Sarah Stephen South Korea's April 15 general election has resulted in a shift to the left. Ten representatives to the 299-member parliament were elected from the labour movement-based Democratic Labor Party. The DLP, which previously had no
REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH The Barbarian InvasionsWritten and directed by Denys ArcandWith Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau and Marie-Josee CrozeOpens nationally April 8. In the beginning, Australian audiences could be forgiven for thinking The