Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, Caracas
"I think it is possible to build socialism. We are demonstrating it already", Lilibet Sira Torres, Caracas director of the Frente de Francisco Miranda, told Green Left Weekly. The FFM is a revolutionary youth
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Ron Perkins, Perth
On April 5, the Maritime Union of Australia led a snap protest involving 300 MUA members against the provocative actions of a number of maritime industry-based companies.
Addressing the rally, MUA state secretary Chris Cain
SYDNEY — On April 4, NSW Greens MP and infrastructure spokesperson Sylvia Hale moved in the NSW parliament to stop the state government from selling off the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.
Hale said: "This government's record on public
Susan Austin, Hobart
Kevin Harkins, state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union in Tasmania, spoke to Green Left Weekly about the June 28 national day of action against Howard's Work Choices laws.
It is "a damn fine idea", he said. "You need
Allen Myers, Hanoi
Mai Giang Vu was a conscript in the Saigon regime's military from 1968 to 1973, when he was wounded, losing his left eye. In 1968 he accompanied an infantry patrol on a week-long defoliation operation. In 1970 and 1971 he was
Coral Wynter, Caracas
Venezuelan political activist Miguel Laffe and three friends, members of the Communist Party Youth of Venezuela, were invited by the Farabundi Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) to be international observers of the March
Graham Matthews
Barely one week after the federal government's anti-worker legislation became law on March 27, and following a spate of sackings nationally — the most publicised being the Cowra Abattoir workers in NSW — the new power that Work
Protests continue in numerous cities against proposed revisions to the 2003 labour law, which will remove the obligation of employers to provide protection, welfare and health benefits to workers and will dramatically reduce severance pay. On March
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
A "dangerous situation" is being created in Venezuela after a series of much-publicised murders in recent weeks, according to Carolus Wimmer, a deputy to the Latin American Parliament and prominent member of the
Federico Fuentes
Three months into Evo Morales' presidential term, much of Bolivia's mainstream media has been focusing on a range of protests and mobilisations by different sectors that have sprung up across the country. The April 2 El Nuevo Dia
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