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Aurora Morales, member of the Venezuelan National Assembly and secretary for international relations for the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR) party, was a guest speaker at an international conference, "Socialism in Latin America: Experiences in
Justin Tutty The nuclear industry would be happy with PM John Howard's June 6 decision to appoint a task force to review uranium mining, processing and nuclear energy in Australia. Defending the composition of his pro-nuclear task force, he said,
Simon Black As World Cup fever grips the globe, many progressives will be sighing at the prospect of another sporting spectacle distracting the "masses" from the pressing issues of the day — the classic "bread and circuses" argument. There is a
Andrew Hall, Canberra Many refugee-rights advocates describe the Howard government's Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 as worse than the policy of mandatory detention introduced by the Hawke Labor government in the
Kiraz Janicke, Geelong More than 80 people, including young workers from the Gold Coast, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, joined local participants at Geelong Trades Hall on June 17 for the "Up Yours Howard" young workers' conference. The conference
Ian Lowe, emeritus professor of science at Griffith University and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, spoke to Green Left Weekly's Dave Riley about the nuclear debate. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
On June 14, West Papuan non-violent activist and human rights advocate Jonah Wenda was arrested in the West Koya area, about 30 kilometres from the Papua New Guinean border, and later transferred to Jayapura, where he is being detained. Wenda was
Dick Nichols The first article in this series, printed in GLW #671, looked at how much the bipartisan recipe of neoliberal "economic rationalism" has been responsible for Australia's 15 years of economic growth, noting its successes in making the
Peter Boyle Michael Gerson, US President George Bush's chief speechwriter for the past seven years, is retiring from the White House. Someone else will have to come up with phrases like "axis of evil", "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and