Chris Peterson, Melbourne
The Terminate Tulla Toxic Dump Action Group (TTTDAG) is having some success in their campaign to get the dangerous toxic dump, close to residents and the Tullamarine airport, closed down. While they are yet to get
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Dave Riley, Brisbane
On April 7, 2000 trade unionists gathered in the Roma Street Forum to protest against the Howard government's Work Choices laws and to hear a report from the Light the Fuse workers' rights tour that had been organised by the
Gregory Wilpert, Caracas
Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA took over seven oil fields in early April, which were previously run by foreign oil companies. Five of these fields were ceded to PDVSA intentionally and the others — one run by
Jim Green
From the corporate media reports of the uranium export agreement struck between Canberra and Beijing last week, you could be forgiven for not knowing that China need not subject a single gram of Australian uranium to safeguards
CANBERRA — One-hundred-and-fifty people demonstrated here on April 8 in support of a bill proposed by ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope that would give same-sex couples access to civil unions.
After a noisy march through the city amid a sea of
ARMIDALE — Ten people joined an April 6 protest against Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Peter Hendy, called by Unions Armidale. Hendy had been invited by the local Liberal Party branch to talk about the "merits" of the Work Choices
The Cuban Revolution and Venezuela and Barrio Adentro and Other Social Missions in the Bolivarian revolutionBy German SanchezOcean Press, 200633 pages
REVIEW BY EMMA CLANCY
German Sanchez, Cuban ambassador to Venezuela since 1994, offers the
Doug Lorimer
US officials claim that they will withdraw their occupation troops from Iraq as soon as the US-recruited and trained Iraqi army is capable of fighting and defeating the anti-occupation resistance movement. But the Pentagon is spending
Greg Harris
Twenty-first century technology is making giant strides forward in some key areas. One of these is cinematic special effects. Having already relegated script-writers to a minor role, US movie studios are near the point where they can do
Trent Hawkins
Since 1996, the Howard government has presided over the cutting of 20,000 government-funded places for students at universities as a result of funding not being properly indexed to inflation, the reduction of untied government funding
Peter Boyle
With the world as it is, some people imagine that a publication like Green Left Weekly has only more and more bad news to report. But that's not true. There is good news to be covered, and one source of such news is the GLW bureau in
Tim Anderson
While New Matilda magazine's proposal for a bill of rights in 2006 is far superior to the 1999 republic proposal and failed referendum (to simply impose an appointed president in place of a constitutional monarch), I think it will fail
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