Che Guevara
Chris Slee's review of Mike Gonzalez's book Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (GLW #614), while challenging the author's anti-Che biases and cliches, unfortunately introduces a few of his own.
Che did not intend to "initiate a
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Lara Pullin
Federal health minister Tony Abbott's push to restrict (and eventually outlaw) women's access to legal abortion services continues to gather momentum, with more Coalition and some Labor MPs joining in the call for a "public debate"
Jan Lacey, Australia Asia Worker Links coordinator for the Stolen Wages Project, died on January 17.
Jan was born in Melbourne into a working-class family. She started working in retail when she was young and later went to work at Leeds Dyeworks in
John Pilger
National myths are usually partly true. In Australia, the myth of an egalitarian society, or "fair go", has an extraordinary history. Long before most of the world, Australia had a minimum wage, a 35-hour working week, child benefits
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On February 2, 40 members and officials from 10 unions in Victoria founded the Defend the Unions Committee to coordinate resistance to the federal Coalition government's planned attack on union rights — its industrial
On February 4, New York's state supreme justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that the state's Domestic Relations Law, which prohibits same-sex marriages, was unconstitutional because it denied the right to equal protection. Ling-Cohen likened the ban on
On January 20, more than 10,000 secondary students from 18 schools in Quito took to the streets, demanding access to concession fares and student cards. Organised by the Federation of Secondary Students of Ecuador, the students have declared their
Selena Black, Sydney
On February 8, federal police conducted an early morning raid on a refugee supporter's house, taking notebooks, computers and documents.
This followed similar raids on December 1, after which four people were summonsed to
Barry Healy
A new and extensive investigation into Haiti's human rights situation has found that conditions in the country have sharply deteriorated since the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was snatched from the country by US forces in
Sarah Stephen
Asylum seekers in Australian detention centres and the refugee-rights movement have for years tried to convey the awful human cost of the mandatory detention system. But it took the horrific experience of Cornelia Rau, a mentally ill
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