Robyn Marshall

CARACAS — Dr Carolus Wimmer is in no doubt that a revolutionary process is underway in Venezuela. "Really it's a process of social and economic transformation, which I defend as, definitely, a revolutionary process", he told

VILLA GRIMALDI, Santiago — Until the end of the 1980s, Villa Grimaldi was the centre of detention and torture of Chilean citizens during the US-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power on September 11,

BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA &#151 The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru

BY JIM McILROY& ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — Thousands of workers marched through the streets here, and in other Peruvian cities, on June 3 to protest against the declaration of a state of emergency by the government of President Alejandro Toledo, and

BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE &#151 Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.

For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for all. A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished

BRISBANE — In the Brisbane City Gallery of the Town Hall is a remarkable collection of photographs, selected by radical Australian journalist John Pilger. The photographs that are included in Reporting the World are a

BRISBANE — After attending an evening lecture at one of this city's universities last August, a young woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in a badly lit area of the campus. She could not identify her attacker. The woman

BRISBANE — Hundreds of people took action around the country on August 8, in a national day of action to demand the repeal of anti-abortion laws. August 8 marked the anniversary of the introduction of Medicare payments for

BRISBANE — The International Women's Day collective here has launched a petition campaign to demand that Peter Beattie's Labor state government repeal sections of the criminal code which make abortion illegal. The

BRISBANE — A meeting on March 19 to discuss decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland attracted interest from many quarters, including sections of the Labor Party. The abortion issue has come back onto the political agenda

BRISBANE — Every square inch of green space is precious in the overdeveloped, inner city ghettoes — which may be why 150 people turned out on February 24 to protest the building of more townhouses on one such area of green