Federico Fuentes
Twenty-thousand people chanted, "El Alto is on its feet, never on its knees", as they marched from that city onto the capital to celebrate their victory on January 14. Less than five years ago, the population of Cochabamba
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Kim Bullimore
Kate Raphel-Bender, a Jewish activist was forcibly deported from Israel on January 16. Raphel-Bender, an activist with the International Women's Peace Service, had been arrested along with another anti-wall activist, Kelly
Green Left Weekly's Jim McIlroy and Paul Benedek
spoke to Brisbane Murri community leader and Socialist Alliance activist Sam Watson about key issues facing Indigenous people today.
Could you tell us about the trial in Goondiwindi you've just
Kate Howard & Simon Butler, Newcastle
After a week of intense campaigning and local media interest, anti-racists in Newcastle organised two major events in opposition to the activities of the small fascist group the Patriotic Youth League.
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Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
"The car-bomb attack on Australian troops in Baghdad is yet another reminder that Australian troops should be brought home immediately", Hobart Peace Coalition activist Kamala Emanuel told Green Left Weekly. "Any suggestion
Pensions
The federal treasurer Peter Costello has been saying that with an ageing population in the next 40 years there will be insufficient revenue to provide pensions and adequate health services for older Australians.
This is an inadvertent
Josephine Hunt, Canberra
More than two years after their claim for a wage increase first went before the Industrial Relations Commission, qualified childcare workers in Victoria and the ACT were delivered a pay rise of up to $82.20 per week in a
Reihana Mohideen, Sri Lanka
Kirinda, a small coastal fishing village in the south, was flattened by the tsunami waves. A large cargo ship had been swept in and lay in the middle of town. There was debris everywhere: collapsed homes and buildings,
Fred Fuentes
In a surprise move, the National Liberation Army (ELN) has decided it will participate in Colombia's elections for the first time. The four-decade-old ELN is the second largest Colombian guerilla group, with around 7000 fighters.
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Pyrrhic victory
"Last November's operation in Falluja, most analysts agree, succeeded less in breaking 'the back' of the insurgency — as Marine Gen. John Sattler optimistically declared at the time — than in spreading it out." — Newsweek,
Raul Bassi
When Nestor Kirchner was elected president of Argentina in 2003, many both inside and outside Argentina viewed him as a progressive alternative to the rampant neoliberalism of the Carlos Menem years.
Menem had governed the country
At least 10,000 protesters from around the country converged on John Marshall Park in Washington, DC, on January 20 bringing a powerful antiwar message to the presidential inauguration of George Bush. The first thing that Bush saw as the presidential
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