BY MARCE CAMERON
HAVANA — On November 14, a rally of 12,000 people took place outside the US interests section, Washington's unofficial embassy in Cuba. The rally was against the US blockade and was televised that night throughout Cuba and
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BY MICHELLE BREAR& FEDERICO FUENTES
SYDNEY — Staff members and students from University of Western Sydney picketed all seven UWS campuses on November 9 in protest at the proposed restructuring of the university. The strike was the second held in
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
Any participants who hoped for a radical anti-globalisation message at the "Make it here or jobs disappear" November 15 rally in Newcastle would have been disappointed. The 3000-strong rally was billed as part of the movement
It is time for the opponents of Israel's colonialist war against the Palestinian people to mobilise in support of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat's demand that a United Nations force be sent to protect the unarmed and defenceless
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
The recent purchase by Foundation Health Care of the Medihelp medical centre chain means 1000 general practitioners, about 5% of all those in Australia, will be contracted to Foundation.
Foundation managing director Ken Jones
BY PIP HINMAN
Prime Minister John Howard, under pressure, once described the successive
Australian governments' approaches to East Timor as bipartisan wrong policy.
Yet this hasn't influenced his views on the self-determination struggle
@head = INDONESIA: Activists plan anti-globalisation conference
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Leaders of the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation here are preparing a major gathering of activists to discuss strategies to stop the imperialist
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Who won the November 7 US presidential election? Democrat Al Gore or Republican George W. Bush? As of this writing, it's still too close to call. Based on the peculiar electoral college system, if Bush wins the state
BY PAT BREWER
HAVANA — "We affirm our conviction that the Cuban people have the unquestionable right to construct their own model of economic, political and social development, to decide their own future without interference or aggression and to
BY TIM GOODEN& SUE BULL
DELHI — Workers are locked out of a car manufacturing plant, scabs are brought in and workers are told to sign individual contracts before they can return to work. The new contracts require workers not to participate in
BY YACOV BEN EFRAT
JAFFA — The al-Aqsa intifada has succeeded in altering agendas both in Israel and the region. In Israel, it has drawn Arab citizens into the struggle for the first time, while pushing the Labour Party rightward. In the wider
Maqsood Alshams was released from Sydney's Villawood Detention in April after 16 months of imprisonment and abuse. He was interred under Australia's racist mandatory detention policy for asylum seekers.
Maqsood sought asylum in Australia because he
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