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Cuban tours

MELBOURNE — More than 60 people met on February 20 for a public forum titled "From Cuba to Argentina: popular resistance to war and neo-liberal globalisation". Barbara Cantero, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC), was the featured speaker.

The meeting was organised by the Committee in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean (CISLAC).

Cantero gave a comprehensive overview of the work of the UJC. CISLAC member Allen Jennings spoke about the rising class struggles throughout Latin America, including in Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil.

Residents fight pollution

MELBOURNE — "Batchelor: minister for pollution", "We need sleep" and "Diesel fumes kill", read the signs at rowdy anti-pollution rally in Yarraville on February 23. Three hundred people gathered to protest increased truck traffic in Yarraville and Footscray since the opening of the City Link freeway.

Recent scientific research has shown a direct link between diesel fumes and asthma, a fact that western suburbs residents have known for years. Residents are angry at the state Labor government's refusal to keep its election promises of alternative truck routes and truck curfews. The next action will be a blockade of Somerville Road at 8am on March 18.

From Green Left Weekly, February 27, 2002.

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From GLW issue 482