Federico Fuentes
A little more than a month after the July 18 referendum on the future of Bolivia's natural gas industry, President Carlos Mesa's "victory" has begun to unravel.
Many commentators had predicted that Mesa's "victory" had given him
596
Doug Lorimer
Despite attempts by New York City Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg to deny them permits, protests during the August 30-September 2 Republican Party national convention are expected to draw tens of thousands of anti-war activists.
Roberto Jorquera
The Venezuelan government's victory on August 15 is not only a victory for the people of Venezuela, but for working people worldwide. The Venezuelan voters decisive rejection of the right-wing bid to recall President Hugo Chavez
Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel's most prominent "new historians". In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of
Zoe Kenny, Melbourne
The "Punish Howard" student rally in Melbourne on August 19 was lively and upbeat and there were a number of contingents from places that haven't attended rallies in a while, including Victoria University and several high
Bernard Ryan's article in the August 12 Sydney Star Observer criticised the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby's lack of action on same-sex marriage. In response, letters in the SSO defended the lobby for "not prioritising marriage as the major election
Band banned for politics
HOBART — On August 24, Hobart College band Mr Mukhole played at the school's assembly. Before the band started to play, the lead singer, Bryn Heathwood, explained the band's name and reason for existing.
As Heathwood
Dave Andrews, Fremantle
Power maintenance workers based in Collie, near Bunbury in Western Australia's south-west, are continuing their strike for better working conditions. The strike by 110 workers, now entering its eighth week, has provoked a
Queensland Rail announces job cuts
BRISBANE — Queensland Rail will cut more than 700 jobs from its workforce of 13,500 in the initial stage of a drastic restructure, which follows the loss of a major rail freight contract to private company
Jonah Gindin & Robin Nieto
Despite rumours that Venezuela's right-wing opposition would boycott the regional elections scheduled for October, on August 24, at a meeting of labour leaders belonging to the social-democratic Accion Democratica,
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government has "worked to dehumanise asylum seekers, to use them as a tool in wedge politics", David Ristrom, the lead Victorian Senate candidate for the Australian Greens, told an
Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney
Three years after the Tampa affair, when Prime Minister John Howard's government refused to allow 400 asylum seekers who had been rescued by a Norwegian freighter to set foot on Australian soil, 250 refugee-rights supporters
- Page 1
- Next page