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BY STUART MUNCKTON 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
BY ROHAN PEARCE On November 3, six men in Yemen were murdered in cold blood by a US "hellfire" missile launched from a remote-controlled Predator aircraft. The men were "suspected" of being al Qaeda members. The explosion, which obliterated the
AMWU and N14 When it was announced the November 14 anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) unity rally in Sydney would not be marching due to fears of "violence", I was appalled. When I found that the leadership of my union, the Australian
BY SARAH STEPHEN SYDNEY — Green Left Weekly spoke to STEPHEN HOPPER, a solicitor who has been representing a number of the Indonesian-Australian families who were raided by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and ASIO at the end of October.
BY STUART MUNCKTON 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,
Peace danger looms "The risk in the strategy [of allowing UN inspectors to return to Iraq], [US] officials note, is that the inspectors may visit those sites and discover nothing", — New York Times, November 14. Washington, London and Canberra
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — On October 28, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) issued an environmental impact assessment supporting a proposed marina resort development at Mauds Landing on the Ningaloo Reef. An ongoing campaign has
MELBOURNE — A South American folk mass, sung by a 60-strong choir and accompanied by an Andean band, will be the major piece in the "Voices of the Masses" concert in Melbourne on November 22-24. Over the last nine years, the community choir Canto
BY OWEN RICHARDS SYDNEY — A dynamic and colourful gathering of around 1000 activists at Town Hall on November 13 kicked off three days of protest against the mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with a march demanding
BY NORM DIXON Up to six Kabul University students were killed when police opened fire on demonstrators on November 11 and 12. Human Rights Watch reported on November 14 that police fired directly into the crowd on November 12, without warning.

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