HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
489
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting
planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands
on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of
BY URI AVNERY
TEL AVIV — One hundred and five years ago, the day after the first Zionist congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the state of the Jews." Last week, Ariel Sharon should have noted in his diary: "In
BY RICARDO ALARCON
[The following message was sent on April 5 by Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.]
In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli
Resistance activists summonsed
MELBOURNE — Two members of the socialist youth group Resistance have been summonsed to appear in court in late May for "trespassing" while attempting to visit hunger-striking refugees at the Maribyrnong detention
and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health
On newsstands advertising the Melbourne Herald Sun on April 11, the banner headline declared a "Women's Health Alarm". This was a reference to the ruling by the Health Insurance
Drugs industry
The current debate around the use of currently illicit drugs in the Northern Territory provides a perfect opportunity for government and the community to look at alternatives to the current approach of prohibition.
Psychedelics,
Woomera reportback #1
PERTH — More than 100 students from three universities — Curtin, Murdoch and the University of Western Australia — heard reports from the Easter protest outside the Woomera refugee detention centre in outback South
BY TAMARA PEARSON
A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help.
One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After
BY EVA CHENG
More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general
strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal
offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats
of the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were
BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT).
Venezolana de
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