Raul Bassi
In the lead-up to the election of the centre-left Workers Party (PT) presidential candidate Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva in 2002, one of the PT's key election promises was to get rid of corruption. Undoubtedly, in a country where
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Sue Bolton
After the tremendous success of the November 15 protests, the union movement is debating how to maintain the momentum against the federal government's Work Choices legislation.
A motion was unanimously passed by the November 15 Geelong
Gregory Wilpert, Caracas
Chavez's party, the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR), won 114 or 68% of the 167 seats in the new National Assembly, according to preliminary results that MVR deputy William Lara announced on December 4. Pro-Chavez
As part of its efforts to whip up an atmosphere of "imminent terrorist attack" in Australia, and thereby ensure public acceptance of its new, anti-democratic "anti-terrorism" laws, the federal government staged a drastic attack on civil rights with
Rachel Evans, Merida
On November 29, three of Venezuela's leading opposition parties announced they would not participate in the December 4 National Assembly elections. Late on November 30, a fourth party announced that it, too, would pull out. The
Tony Iltis
Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, who acted for the Tampa refugees in 2001, believes the federal Coalition government's "anti-terror" laws will "seriously undermine basic civil freedoms that have been recognised for at least three
Norm Dixon
The terrible devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in late August, which took the lives of at least 964 people, and the subsequent political crisis caused by the failure of US President George Bush's government to
Workers demonstrated outside the German embassy in Kuala Lampur on December 1, calling on the German ambassador to Malaysia to intervene in an industrial dispute at a German-owned factory. The workers also staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside
Nick Fredman
The execution by hanging in Singapore of convicted Australian heroin trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van on December 2 caused revulsion among people around the world — including among Singaporeans fighting for democratic rights and for the
Sami Ramadani was for many years an exile from his native Iraq as a political refugee from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Today, he is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. invasion and occupation. At an international antiwar conference in London in
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