Stuart Munckton

  • Reject entire Nelson attack on higher education!

    The November 28 Australian reported that federal education minister Brendan Nelson has watered down legislation attacking the higher education system in a bid to get it through the Senate. Labor, the Greens and the Democrats

  • Solidarity with Aceh grows

    BY PIP HINMAN & STUART MUNCKTON As news of Indonesian military atrocities in Aceh — including girls as young as six being raped — spreads, so does the solidarity with the Acehnese people's struggle for democracy. On June 5, 33 people gathered

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez: 'There is no turning back'

    "We have burnt our boats. There is no turning back", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in a national broadcast on January 6. "We will carry on consolidating and deepening the revolution", the radical pro-poor president

  • VENEZUELA: Bosses' 'strike' loses steam

    "The strike that once left most commercial areas of the city dark and abandoned — at an economic cost of more than $50 million a day — is now a collage of contrasts: abandoned shopping malls and bustling street markets ...

  • VENEZUELA: The other war for oil

    Reading the mainstream press over the last month, one could be forgiven for believing that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has become so unpopular that his government is facing a revolt by the country's workers. However, at

  • VENEZUELA: Right-wing campaign of sabotage escalates

    "Highways are blocked with barricades, creating huge traffic jams. Protests and tear gas fill streets; police patrols are few; residents stick by their radios and TVs, ingesting venomous political rhetoric while seeing if it's

  • VENEZUELA: New attempts fail to oust Chavez

    Right-wing opponents of elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have gone on a new offensive aimed at destabilising the country and bringing Chavez down. In recent weeks there has been a general strike supported by national and

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez looks for an 'axis of good'

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has answered right-wing commentators who have attacked Brazil's new president, the Workers' Party candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the claim that Brazil will, with Venezuela and Cuba,

  • VENEZUELA: Millions declare: 'No to the coup-makers!'

    Political tensions in Venezuela continue to rise. On October 10, there was a mass mobilisation of middle- and upper-class opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the capital Caracas. This was followed three days later by an even

  • VENEZUELA: Struggle for power intensifies

    A Reuters news-wire report from Caracas on September 19 tells of a joke circulating among wealthy Venezuelans: George Bush wakes from a 10-year sleep to find that Saddam Hussein has embraced democracy. "What about Venezuelan

  • Evolve wins low-key elections

    CANBERRA — In a low-key Australian National University Students Association (ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and

  • Students support refugees, bureaucrats block action

    CANBERRA — More than 100 students attended the Australian National University Students' Association May 27 annual general meeting, at which students voted to make opposition to mandatory detention and support for asylum