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ECUADOR: Morales encourages nationalisation

On June 12, Bolivian President Evo Morales encouraged indigenous Ecuadorians to continue their fight for control over their natural resources during a visit to Quito for a meeting of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Addressing a crowd opposite

VENEZUELA: Indigenous people march against imperialism

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Several thousand indigenous people gathered in the Plaza Venezuela on June 7 for the First National March of Indigenous Peoples, organised by Conive (the National Council of Indigenous People of Venezuela).

NSW ALP to back anti-Labor candidate?

Geoff Payne, Newcastle The Queen's Birthday weekend conference of the NSW Labor Party rejected a motion, moved by the Newcastle State Electorate Council, supporting the rank-and-file preselection of Bryce Gaudry, the member for Newcastle since

PALESTINE: Abbas' referendum aims to undermine Hamas

Kim Bullimore In a dangerous game of brinkmanship with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the main opposition Fatah party, issued a presidential decree on June 10

Australia's role in occupied Iraq: in whose national interest?

The Australian government has played a deplorable role in post-invasion Iraq. Christopher Doran reveals Australia's role in privatising Iraqi crops and seeds. No weapons of mass destruction and no ties to Al Queda. With the arguments for the Iraq

UNITED STATES: Close Guantanamo Bay!

In response to the suicides of inmates at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, US group International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and Racism) issued the following statement. Three men who had been held at Guantanamo Bay for four years resorted to

Our Common Cause: Market forces won't stop nuclear power

"By 2013 Australia will be the largest exporter of uranium in the world." Martin Ferguson, ALP shadow resources minister, repeated this statement three or four times, just in case anyone missed the message. His message had nothing to do with

IRAN: US-EU forced to drop sanctions threats

Doug Lorimer Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, who holds the European Union rotating presidency, told the June 9 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Iran had until the next meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8) to

IRAQ: Haditha massacre survivors paid 'hush money'

Doug Lorimer "The investigation of an alleged Marine massacre of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last year has focused on whether cash payments to the families of victims were part of a cover-up", the June 8 New York Daily News reported. The

Are workers better off under AWAs?

Sue Bolton Since Labor leader Kim Beazley's announcement that a future Labor government would abolish Australian Workplace Agreements, PM John Howard has repeatedly claimed that workers on AWAs have higher wages than workers on collective

Unionists discuss Beazley's AWA promise

Graham Matthews & Sue Bolton Leading unionists have welcomed federal ALP leader Kim Beazley's pledge on June 11 that the party would abolish Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) if it wins the next federal election. While applauding the pledge,

East Timor asks for UN-led peacekeeping force

Jon Lamb East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta formally requested to a special session of the United Nations Security Council on June 14 that the UN Office In East Timor be extended by at least one month to August 22. The Security Council