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Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas Walter Gaviria, president of the Latin American Parliament, spoke briefly to Green Left Weekly on September 1, during a march to greet President Hugo Chavez, who had returned from an overseas trip. The campaign
Pablo Alfonso and Wilfredo Cancio Isla, two of the Miami Herald's most recalcitrant journalists, have been fired in the wake of a scandal involving them receiving US government payments to appear on Radio Marti and TV Marti to transmit anti-Cuba
Simon Cunich, Sydney For the first time in a number of years, the left activist tickets in the Sydney University student representative council elections, which finished on September 21, posed a serious challenge to Labor students' dominance of the
Nick Fredman The fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the US was marked by much of the corporate media in a subdued and reflective fashion. The ongoing bloodshed and chaos in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the brutal, but
SYDNEY — Forty members of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation and supporters from the union movement protested outside the James Hardie shareholders' meeting on September 19. "It's outrageous that we're still asking James Hardie Industries to pay
Art for quake victims ArtquakeStone Gallery at Eastside Arts (Paddington markets, Sydney)October 7, view from 10am, auction at 3pm. PREVIEW BY REBECCA CONROY As the monsoon season draws near, post-earthquake recovery in Indonesia is increasingly
The following comments were given by Desiree Santos Amaral, first vice-president of Venezuela's National Assembly, to Green Left Weekly. Come to Venezuela, all of you in Australia. Come and see whatever you want to, and go back to tell the stories
MELBOURNE — Fifty people attended a "Noise for Darfur" rally on September 18 to call for an end to the war in Sudan. Since 2003, thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced by the fighting. The rally was organised by the
Farida Iqbal, Sydney On September 23, activists from Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) and the NSW Queer Students Network visited lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex refugees in Villawood detention centre. The LGBTI movement
Doug Lorimer In a September 18 national radio address — six days after ordering the expulsion of Australian high commissioner Patrick Cole — Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare accused Canberra of using aid and the presence of Australian troops
Stuart Munckton Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez once again sent waves of shock through the US elite, and the corporate media, by using his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 not for diplomatic niceties but
Stuart Munckton In an exclusive interview with the September 10 Spanish-language daily Diario Panorama, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez spoke about the challenges facing the Bolivarian revolution — as the process of social