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Andrew Hall, Buenos Aires On September 9, at least 20,000 people marched from the congressional building to Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires to protest against the November 4-5 visit for the Summit of the Americas by US President George
Eva Cheng, Kajang Two-hundred socialist activists and their sympathisers were joined by socialists and Malaysian political exiles from at least eight countries at Kajang near Kuala Lumpur on September 10-11 to discuss the way forward for socialist
Federico Fuentes, Caracas The right-wing controlled opposition media and big business, both foreign and Venezuelan, have unleashed a wave of condemnation against the recent actions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land (MAT). The editorial in
Rohan Pearce According to the September 15 English-language online edition of the Baghdad Azzaman daily, the US military's assault on the city of Tal Afar, 320 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, has displaced large numbers of Tal Afar residents and
The wake of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States seems to have reverberated all the way to Washington as more and more US citizens question their government's response to their worst natural disaster in decades. Internationally, the
Stuart Munckton "Go and repeat that imperialism is not invincible. Go and repeat that we are in a time of offensive. Go and repeat that a new time is approaching." This was the message that Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez had for the
Stuart Munckton The willingness of the left-wing government of Hugo Chavez to implement the program it was elected to carry out — to use the nation's resources to solve the problems of poverty and underdevelopment — and the inability of foreign
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart "Gunns don't appear to have a very good name in Tasmania. They are seen to be a company based on arrogance. Gunns are not widely respected in the Tasmanian community from my observations." These are the diplomatic words of
A letter to US attorney-general Alberto Gonzalez demanding the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist operatives unfairly convicted by the US has attracted more than 3000 high-profile signatories from around the world. These include French actor Gerard
John Pilger, London When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had taken refuge from the
One week to go, just $9000 more to raise Peter Boyle In just nine weeks our supporters have donated and raised $91,033! It has been an inspiring effort. Several hundred dollars were donated last week by US supporters in response to the letter
Pip Hinman, Sydney Labor won all three NSW parliamentary by-elections on September 17, but with swings against new Premier Morris Iemma's government of 4-12%. In Marrickville, the Greens scored their highest vote ever for a lower house seat,