Marcus Pabian

  • Eyewitnesses to Venezuelan people's power

    On May 30, an Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network forum heard from Adam Leeman and Federico Fuentes, two participants in this year’s May Day brigade to revolutionary Venezuela.

  • Anniversary of Venezuela's coup marked

    Supporters of the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions assembled on April 11 at the Iberoamerican square to commemorate the failure of the April 2002 US-backed coup against the government of Venezuela’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez.

  • DET workers strike against job cuts

    MELBOURNE — Following a three-month campaign to resist job cuts, workers employed in the state Department of Education and Training (DET), frustrated by intransigence of Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government, went on strike on

  • Buildings workers protest

    MELBOURNE — On August 20, 1000 construction workers rallied outside the ACTU congress. Organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the rally called on the ACTU to support unions resisting the federal government's legislative

  • NTEU rally protests attack on higher education

    MELBOURNE — On August 21, 300 members of he National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) were joined by delegates to the ACTU congress in a protest rally against the Howard government's proposed changes to university funding which

  • Community sector rallies against cuts by Bracks

    MELBOURNE — On August 12, 3000 people rallied outside the Treasury building to support the community services sector in the face of funding cuts proposed by Premier Steve Bracks' state Labor government. Disabled people were out

  • Students protest Coalition education 'reforms'

    MELBOURNE — Part of the May 22 national day of protest called by the National Union of Students (NUS) against the Howard government's education "reforms", announced in its May 13 budget, 330 students marched in protest from

  • Detention of refugees condemned

    BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that

  • Burmese target Canberra embassy

    Burmese target Canberra embassyCANBERRA — Fifty federal police were unable to prevent 200 Burmese pro-democracy demonstrators, chanting "Eliminate dictatorship", from staging a sit-in outside the Burmese government's embassy

  • Education activists meet

    WOLLONGONG — The National Union of Students' (NUS) national education conference was held here on June 27-28. It was attended by students from all states and territories and discussed the state of higher