The test broadcast phase for the new Latin America-wide satellite television channel Telesur ended on October 31 with the launch of a continuous live signal from its studios in Caracas.
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On November 4, riots continued for the ninth consecutive night as young people, many with African and Arab backgrounds, set fire to cars and buildings in Paris's poor, migrant-populated suburbs. The riots were sparked on October 27 when two teenagers of African origin were accidentally electrocuted as they fled police.
Green Left Weekly's Liam Mitchell exposes some of the many lies contained in WorkChoices, the federal government's new industrial relations package.
Myth: WorkChoices will protect minimum conditions by law.
Fact: Only the minimum wage and casual
John Cleary
There are about 35,000 electrical industry workers in Venezuela. They are organised in 30 unions, which together form Fetraelec. About 80% of all workers in the electrical industry are in unions.
A new leadership was elected in
Simon Cunich
The strengthening of Australia's "anti-terrorism" laws proposed by the federal government includes creating new offences for "those who communicate inciting messages ... including against Australia's forces overseas and in support of
Roberto Jorquera, Melbourne
On October 29, a stall selling Green Left Weekly in the inner-city suburb of Brunswick was ordered to leave by police who had been called by the Barkly Square Shopping Centre management.
Barkly Square has been the
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has received, from various sources, reliable information that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be in Adelaide on November 16-18.
This information follows several months
According to a report issued on October 24 by the Palestinian National Information Centre, 4172 Palestinians have been killed and 8435 have been wounded in the five years since the beginning of the Al Aqsa intifada. Of those killed, 783 were
The Latham DiariesBy Mark LathamMelbourne University Press, 2005429 pages, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
No wonder federal ALP politicians are narked. Mark Latham, after eleven years in federal parliament (including a year as leader of the
Big bucks and the triumph of Wests Tigers
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
In a nation dominated by the ruling class, where sport is a commodity ruled by big money - more like a Big Mac on wheels than an athletics contest - sometimes remarkable events,
Compensation for trumped-up charge
Five years ago, high profile lawyer Adam Houda was arrested at Burwood Local Court on a trumped-up assault charge by police. On October 25, he received $145,000 compensation, plus interest.
The lawyer, who
Federico Fuentes, La Paz
After travelling 18 hours from La Paz on a number of different buses and a trek through mud and rain to cross flooded roads, I arrived in Chimore, a town of 2000 residents in Bolivia's remote Chapare jungle, located 580
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