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Second assassination of Trotsky

Trotsky: A Biography By Robert Service, Pan Macmillan, 2009 624 pages, $59.95 hb

US soldier charged over protest song

Marc Hall — a US soldier at Fort Stewart and hip hop artist — is to be whisked off to Iraq for a military court martial, out of reach of the public eye and his own civilian defence lawyers.

Power, anger, humour — Fiona Foley confronts racism

Fiona Foley: Forbidden University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. Showing February 19-May 2

US student strike planned against cuts

The following call for a national strike and day of action in defence of public education was released by the California Coordinating Committee. It is reprinted from

Afghanistan: Bloody war drags on

On February 13, 15,000 occupying troops from the US, Canada, Britain, Denmark, Estonia and the Afghan puppet state launched the Operation Moshtarak military offensive on Helmand province.

Canada: Thousands protest Olympics opening

Five thousand people took to the streets of Vancouver on February 12 to protest the opening of the corporate spectacle known as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.