Kim Bullimore On September 13, Palestinian political leaders condemned Washington's refusal to lift its aid embargo against the Palestinian Authority (PA) after Hamas and Fatah, the two major Palestinian political parties, reached agreement on
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Federico Fuentes During the swearing-in of more than 300,000 people to the "battalions" of the Miranda Command on September 9, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking re-election through a massive grassroots effort led by the
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas National and state governments are attempting to tackle the threat posed to Venezuela by right-wing paramilitary groups that have infiltrated the regions of the country bordering Colombia, particularly the state
In his comment piece, "Should Venezuela have entered Mercosur?" (GLW #682), Raul Bassi emphasises the incapacity of Mercosur — the "Common Market of the South" set up in 1991 between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — to
My Israel QuestionBy Antony LoewensteinMelbourne University Press, 2006340 pages, $32.95 REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE Australian Jewish writer and journalist Antony Loewenstein has set the cat among the pigeons with his first book, My Israel Question.
Dick Nichols The experience of the last round of crises and near-misses (from Mexico's 1994 crash through to the 2001 meltdown of the US "new economy" bubble) have made the guardians of the world capitalist economy very wary about the speed with
Troy McGuinness A 48-hour strike by 500 National Distribution Union members in three New Zealand cities has turned into all-out war. The workers were locked out of supermarket distribution centres when they took strike action on August 25.
Message Stick: The Gathering — The Mirning people of the Nullabor: the reconnection to their land and their ancient tradition of whale dreaming. ABC, Friday, September 22, 6pm. One Mile Dam/Writing Wrongs — Traces the survival of a community
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas A major row has been created after moves by Greater Caracas's mayor, Juan Barreto, to expropriate two golf courses, frequented solely by the very wealthy, in order to build houses in the capital, which faces a
Cameron Vincent On September 12, Mechanical Engineering Services Pty Ltd notified the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) that the company would be locking out 45 of its employees from its Yallourn premises for up to three months.
MELBOURNE — On September 14, 200 people attended a forum at Melbourne University to hear Mamdouh Habib speak about his time in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The forum was organised by Students Against War and Racism. Habib condemned the
Federico Fuentes At the September 9 swearing-in of the members of the Miranda Command, Venezuela's left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, called for the creation of the "great party of the Bolivarian revolution" to unite the groups that support
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