Venezuela
I wish to address Ray Fulcher's concerns ("Write On", GLW #629) regarding my article in Socialist Worker detailing my all too brief stay in Venezuela. For the record, the article described an all too brief visit to Venezuela I made
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Kim Bullimore
Since early June, almost-daily peaceful protests in the Salfit district of the West Bank have been hit by teargas, stun grenades, live ammunition and rubber bullets by Israeli occupation forces. The residents of Salfit are trying to
June 24
1978: The first Sydney Mardi Gras march ends in a police riot.
June 25
1876: US cavalry face the biggest defeat in their war against Native Americans in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1955: During a three-week strike in NSW,
Peter Boyle
On June 16, the federal minister for employment and workplace relations, Kevin Andrews, used a Dorothy Dix question to attack the June 11 National Trade Union Fightback Conference, singling out Socialist Alliance members Chris Cain and
Douglas Wood, the US-based, Australian construction contractor held for six weeks by Iraqi resistance fighters, has been freed. But what about the hundreds of Arabic- speaking and Turkomen Iraqis who have been abducted at gunpoint in the northern
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Anti-war campaigners from Brisbane and other parts of Australia gathered in Rockhampton over the June 10-12 weekend to protest against Operation Talisman Sabre, the largest military exercise ever held in Australia.
Involving
CANBERRA — The June 1 meeting of the ACT Trades and Labour Council, commonly known as Unions ACT, voted to hold a rally on June 26 (a Sunday) outside the Liberal Party national council meeting at the Hyatt Hotel to protest against the federal
On June 12, the International Labor Organization rejected a request by Fedecameras, Venezuela's largest employer group, to open an investigation into supposed abuses of workers' rights in Venezuela. Fedecameras's ILO delegate walked out in protest at
SYDNEY — The NSW coroner announced on June 15 that an inquiry will be held into the death of Australian journalist Brian Peters in East Timor in 1975. Peters' sister, Maureen Tolfree, made the application for an inquest a year ago.
Tolfree's
Federico Fuentes
No one can talk about the crisis in Bolivia, the site of continuous waves of mobilisation, road blockades and general strikes that have thrown out two presidents already, without mentioning Evo Morales. No matter what the viewpoint
Got a buddy in Najaf, he's playing it straightPrays to the Lord Jesus Christ every nightGot a homey in Samarra goin' up the wallsEvery time he hears an Islamic prayer callMe, I don't care much for Jesus or MohammedThey don't stop bullets to the best
BRISBANE — On June 7, 40 people attended an anti-war forum jointly organised by the Stop the War Collective and the Brisbane Anti-Bases group.
Speakers included Marianne Hanson, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the
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