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Not happy George! "Two days early, with a veil of secrecy and a tight security lockdown, Washington's proconsul in Iraq, Paul Bremer III, handed a hollow and uncertain sovereignty to Iyad Allawi, a former Baathist collaborator of Saddam Hussein who
Robyn Marshall, Caracas Since it took office in 1999, the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has implemented a number of programs and reforms to help the poor. Assisting in the process of change has been the Bolivarian Circles, through
Disability rights campaigner Kathleen (Katie) Ball died in Melbourne on June 25 from pneumonia at the age of 39. Katie was a qualified secondary teacher, a community development worker and a grassroots activist, who never shied away from taking
Roberto Jorquera On June 29, web-based news service Venezuelanalysis.com reported that several people were attacked at a protest opposing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The angry protest was caught on tape by the state-run television channel
Civil rights suspended: Labor nods 'yes' Hardly a week goes by without another civil liberty being abolished. Largely ignored by the corporate press, the current sitting of parliament is examining the National Security Information (Criminal
Melanie Sjoberg, Adelaide "The representative notion of governance is not one held among many Aboriginal communities", John Tregenza, an Aboriginal public health worker, told a Socialist Alliance meeting on June 30. Aboriginal councils, services
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco On June 27, the Green Party convention voted against endorsing the independent Ralph Nader-Peter Camejo campaign for the US presidency. Less than a week before the convention, Nader named Greens activist Camejo as
Lynda Hansen, Brisbane The Selling Sex in Queensland report, commissioned by the Prostitution Licensing Authority 18 months ago and independently prepared by researchers from the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology,
Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney As human beings we have the capacity to imagine an alternative future, one which is not based on deception, cruelty and injustice, Sister Susan Connelly from the Mary McKillop Institute for East Timorese Studies told a public
Kathy Newnam & Owain Lewis-Jones, Darwin One Mile Dam, an Aboriginal camp on prime land close to Darwin's CBD, is under pressure to relocate to the fringes of the city. Developers plan to build up-market apartments in the surrounding area and want
Norm Dixon The African National Congress-led Johannesburg City Council is attempting to evict two of South Africa's leading activist organisations from their premises in the city's Newtown arts precinct. On July 1, more than 50 activists gathered
My Life is an extraordinary book that should be read and reread by every socialist. Of course, we mean My Life by the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. My Life by Bill Clinton, on the other hand, is a pompous piece of junk — lies and distortions