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Doug Lorimer Newly elected Solomon Islands Prime Minister Mannasseh Sogavare hit out on May 7 at Australian leaders for interfering in the internal affairs of the archipelago-nation after they publicly criticised his decision to include two
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas "The Venezuelan revolution is a very popular mobilisation, which was revealed especially in the opposition to the counter-revolutionary coup in April 2002 and the bosses' strike of early 2003", Pedro Eusse,
The Vote: How It Was Won And How It Was UnderminedBy Paul FootViking (Penguin) 2005 506 pages REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER Paul Foot, who died in July 2004, began this ambitious book in 1990, and completed it shortly before his death, having been
The Great Labor Schism: a retrospectiveedited by Brian Costar, Peter Love & Paul Strangio Scribe, 2005 384 pages, $35 (pb) REVIEW BY MATTHEW LAMB Although the essays collected in The Great Labor Schism are said to be a retrospective of the
Message Stick: The Lost Ones — Academic Henry Reynolds and Queensland woman Bron Nurdin are trying to trace their Aboriginal heritage, their families and where they belong. ABC, Friday, May 26, 6pm. The Chaser's War on Everything — Confronts
James Crafti On May 12 Sydney resident Phillip Reiss was shot with a "rubber" bullet in the back of the head while demonstrating in the Palestinian village of Bil'in. The misleadingly named "rubber bullet" — a metal cylinder covered by a
NEWCASTLE — On May 12, 80 residents rallied outside the government's planning department office to protest developer Hardie Holdings' proposal to construct a "village" on a 2300-hectare site between North Rothbury and Branxton, with 28,000
Chris Peterson, Melbourne On May 15, 200 students rallied outside a university council meeting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to protest against RMIT's decision to cut funding to the student union. RMIT plans to cut funding to the
June 28 national day of action ACT Canberra: Lunchtime rally, Garema Place, Civic (time to be confirmed) NEW SOUTH WALES Armidale: Rally details to be confirmed Lismore: 12.30pm, Magellan St, Lismore Newcastle: 10am, Newcastle Panthers
Doug Lorimer "Malnutrition among Iraqi children has reached alarming levels, according to a UN-backed government survey showing people are struggling to cope three years after US-forces overthrew Saddam Hussein", Reuters reported on May 15. The
Solidarity rallies took place in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne as part of a May 20 international day of solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba. The day was initiated by social justice and solidarity groups in the US opposed to their
MELBOURNE — In the early hours of May 11, police attacked 150 Indigenous activists and their supporters as they removed embers from the "sacred flame" that had been burning in the Kings Domain park in central Melbourne since the Camp Sovereignty