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Support justice and peace in Asia

Two events in Sydney on July 11 will provide an opportunity to offer solidarity to peace and democracy activists in Asia. At 4.30pm, at the Sydney Town Hall steps, there will be a solidarity protest with Aceh, demanding Indonesian troops withdraw

Loose cannons

Sensitive I "Australia is not a neo-colonial power and we are sensitive to the regional concerns about our role." — Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer, June 26, justifying the deployment of 1500 Australian troops to the Solomon Islands

Michael Franti: Modern day prophet

Everyone Deserves MusicMichael Franti and SpearheadBoo Boo wax records, through Liberation Music Australia. REVIEW BY CRAIG BULLEY The recent Australian release of the Michael Franti and Spearhead album Everyone Deserves Music will be followed up

PALESTINE: Saadat: Our quest is a democratic and free society

Fightback! interviewed the imprisoned general-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, on May 20. The PFLP is the second-largest political group within the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). It is a

Ridge campaigners to protest at ALP conference

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — A June 30 meeting of Save the Ridge activists decided to rally outside the July 26 ACT ALP conference as part of their campaign to press the territory's Labor government to abandon its plan to build a major freeway,

VENEZUELA: Chavez challenges the US

BY CHRIS KERR The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is not just a national phenomenon, it is impacted upon greatly by international developments, particularly the US-led campaign against it. In 2002, the US government stepped up its intervention

Che Guevara investigating the legend

BY ZOE KENNY MELBOURNE — On June 26, the Latin American Film Society Filmoteca held a special film screening which showcased three films about Che Guevara at Federation Square's Australian Centre for the Moving Image. My father, Che: a

BRITAIN: WMD scandal causes Labour poll slump

BY ROHAN PEARCE A survey by polling organisation YouGov has revealed that the British Labour Party's popularity has fallen dramatically as the scandal over Prime Minister Tony Blair's lies about Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction

FRANCE: Three thousand voices for Bove

BY DANNY FAIRFAX Denouncing the arrest of Jose Bove, one of the most high profile global justice activists in France, 3000 people protested in the town of Millau, the major population centre of Bove's home region Aveyron, on June 28. Bove, a

SCOTLAND: Union backs socialists

BY KEEF TOMKINSON From its birth, the Scottish Socialist Party has called on trade unions to break their link with the British Labour Party. On July 1, the 65,000-strong British Rail Maritime and Transport union decided that branches could affiliate

Write on: Letters to the editor

Brazil Luke Fomiatti's letter (Write On, GLW #544) is not informed, but is based on wishful thinking. Fomiatti seems to know little of what is going on in Brazil and even less about the way in which the Lula regime is being received by the left

IRAQ: US occupation troops losing morale

BY ROHAN PEARCE There are an increasing number of reports in the corporate press that the growing armed resistance to the US occupation of Iraq and the deepening hostility of they face from the Iraqi population is causing US soldiers to lose