GLW issue 608, published 2004-12-01.

COLOMBIA: Is the FARC planning a new offensive?

James Brittain Since its formal inception in 1964, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) has maintained a unique presence within Colombia and Latin America in general. Unlike many revolutionary movements created

Pool understaffing endangers lives

Chris Slee, Melbourne Daryl Croke, who works as a swimming teacher, coach and lifeguard at a leisure centre in the Moreland area, told a November 24 meeting in Brunswick that understaffing endangers the lives of swimmers at many Melbourne pools.

Why celebrate Eureka?

Karen Fletcher In September 1851, a year after the colony of Victoria was formed, 75-year-old John Dunlop found gold under the wattle trees at Ballarat. By then the Australian colonies were already alight with gold fever. Earlier that year an

IRAQ: Covering up US war crimes

James Petras I am reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary, a journalist's account of Nazi political propaganda during the 1930s, as I watch the US "news" reports of the violent assault on Fallujah. The US mass media "reports", the style, content

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Australian News

Meeting urges Latham to the left

Pip Hinman, Sydney The Leichhardt Town Hall was filling up fast on November 22 when federal Labor leader Mark Latham arrived. Five minutes later people were still pouring in, curious about Labor's plans for the next three years. Latham's

Peace activist acquitted

Tony Iltis, Melbourne On November 24, peace activist Reta Kaur was acquitted in the Melbourne Magistrates Court of criminal damage after she wrote "The killing has started" in red paint and placed red hand prints on two statues outside the US

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International News

UNITED STATES: CIA complicity in Venezuelan coup

Stuart Munckton In April 2002, shortly after the military coup that temporarily overthrew Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, author William Blum asked on the counterpunch website: "How do we know that the [Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)] was

PHILIPPINES: Massacre provokes mass protest

Reihana Mohideen, Manila What should have been a straightforward collective bargaining agreement for a wage increase resulted in the killing of 14 people (including two children) and the arrest of 115 workers on November 16, at Hacienda Luisita, a

Further International News

Cultural Dissent

Fallujah, 15/11/04

"Butchered blond woman found with slit throat" cried the Sydney Morning Herald, in blond coloured tears. But the 100,000s of Iraqis who have died are called "insurgents" and it is left at that. I'll stand on a box and shout at the masses of

Tommy goes Caracas

Tommy Goes CaracasDirected and produced by Aimara RequesCo-produced by Cassandra McGowanFor upcoming screening, contact your local activist centre as listed on page 2, or visit <http://www.resistance.org.au>. REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON

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