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CANBERRA — Chilean solidarity activists around Australia have been holding information evenings to raise awareness of the conditions of political prisoners being held in Chile and other Latin American jails. Galvarino Sergio Apablaza Guerra, also
@PARAFLTR = Slap on the wrist for ERA Kathy Newnam, Darwin The Ranger uranium mine operator, Energy Resources Australia, has received a $150,000 fine by the Darwin Magistrates Court for breaching the Mining Management Act. ERA pleaded guilty
Norm Dixon Zimbabwe's authoritarian capitalist government, headed by President Robert Mugabe, has unleashed a massive wave of police brutality and destruction in an attempt to terrorise the country's fiercely anti-government urban working class and
Barbara Rojas & Owen Richards, Sydney Aleida Guevara, 44-year-old daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, criticised the neoliberal policies of Western governments and called for anti-globalisation activists to study the revolutionary ideas of her
Up to 20,000 people took part in Tonga's largest ever demonstration in the capital Nuku'alofa on May 26. The protest was fuelled by anger at high electricity costs while the executives of power company Shoreline, owned by the Crown Prince Tupouto'a
Trade unionist and political prisoner Craig Johnston was released from Loddon prison in country Victoria on May 26, the same day that the Coalition government announced its next set of anti-union laws. In 2001, while Johnston was the Victorian
That Craig Johnston was released from jail on the very day that the Coalition government unveiled its new industrial relations laws warrants special attention by all those millions of Australian working people who will see their wages, job security
According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
Leaders of the New Zealand Maori Party have been touring Australian cities to boost support for the party, which has become a growing force in NZ politics over the past year. They were invited by branches of the party formed by Maori migrants in
On May 30, the revolutionary socialist party Lalit nominated 32 candidates across all 20 constituencies for the upcoming general election. Opposing the constitutional requirement that for their nomination to be accepted, each candidate must list
@intro2 = Peter Boyle is a member of the national executives of both the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance. What has the Socialist Alliance achieved in its four years of existence? The Socialist Alliance is probably the
MELBOURNE — On May 30, 30 people attended a meeting in Campbellfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, to launch a local group to campaign against the federal government's attacks on workers' rights and welfare. Dave Kerin, convenor of the Union