The people of Turkey, aided by a long history of organisation and resistance, fiercely resisted the US invasion of Iraq, successfully blocking many of their government's attempts to provide support to the invaders. Taylan Bilgic from the foreign news
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For the moment the horizon is on fireDemocracy rising balanced on a wireLiberation, you can smell it in the airThings are moving and the rich are all awareSome will talk along the sidelines, others they will doMe, I'll sing a song for Chavez before
MELBOURNE — The picket line at the ABM Plastics factory in Braeside ended on April 20. It had run continuously since January 21 in support of the demand for the payment of $2.5 million in entitlements owed to the workers when the company went into
One thousand residents of a disused factory in Wynberg, Johannesburg, are facing eviction by Alexandra Plaza Pty Ltd, which intends to develop a shopping centre on the site. Some have been living there for more than 20 years, and they have built
Simon Cunich
In January, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the nationalisation of Venepal, one of the country's largest paper mills, which had been occupied and run by workers, he called on "workers' leaders to follow this path ...
Two weeks after his asylum application was refused, 26-year-old Hussein Nasseri shot himself between the eyes. On April 18, the inquest into his June 2004 death concluded that the refusal drove him to suicide. Nasseri fled from Iran in 2000, after
Nicole Hilder, Melbourne
On April 20, the same day that the media reported Coalition Senator Ron Boswell's intention to introduce a private member's bill into parliament restricting women's access to abortion, the Socialist Alliance held a
Australia's prison population increased by 3% last year, with an average of 23,816 people behind bars at any one time.
Tasmania recorded a 17% jump in incarcerations last year.
The Northern Territory has the highest incarceration rate: In 2004,
The Chavez Code: Deciphering the intervention of the United States in VenezuelaBy Eva GolingerEditorial de Ciencias Sociales330 pagesCopies can be obtained via the author at <evagolinger@hotmail.com>
The Chavez Code by Eva Golinger cracks
Max Lane, Sydney
On April 26, a new round of negotiations will start between the Australian and East Timorese governments over the maritime boundary between the two countries.
The Australian government is still refusing to recognise the
PERTH — Aboriginal leaders and elders from seven tribal groups in NSW met in Moree on April 22 to set up a "Union of Aboriginal Nations", according to a report carried by Perth Indymedia.
The meeting was attended by leaders and elders from the
Rohan Pearce
No sooner had the Twin Towers come down on 9/11 than the coterie of neoconservatives in President George Bush's administration sought to use the terrorist attacks as justification for a US invasion of Iraq. The aim wasn't to liberate
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