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On December 1, South Africa's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that same-sex marriages have equal status with those between men and women. The court stayed its ruling for one year, so that parliament may amend a 1961 marriage law to reflect the

Gloria La Riva, Miami On March 10, lawyers for five Cuban citizens who have been in prison in the US since 2001 on frame-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage presented oral arguments to a three-judge federal appeals court in Miami. The

Eva Cheng Although only a small fraction of China's numerous protests in the last decade have been documented by media, from those reports we have, the willingness of aged pensioners to defend their rights stands out. According to a 2002 China

On June 29, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) picketed the Johannesburg offices of BHP Billiton in solidarity with Australian unions fighting against the government's draconian anti-worker laws. A COSATU statement noted that "These

On November 19, Cuban-born Santiago Alvarez Magrina was detained in Miami by federal US authorities. Alvarez is linked to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was behind the bombing of a commercial airliner that killed 73 people. A stockpile of

G. Buster Paying homage to its resistance to fascism, the poet Rafael Alberti once called Madrid "the capital of glory". On March 11, Madrid again became a martyr city. A cruel terrorist attack has left 198 dead and some 1500 wounded. Most of the

Bernie Stephens, Harare With the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) divided down the middle, President Robert Mugabe would have celebrated his 82nd birthday in February with temporary respite. The MDC split in the lead-up to last

Norm Dixon For at least 18 months now, Western governments have quietly stood by as the non-Arabic-speaking black farmers of the Darfur region in western Sudan have borne the brunt of a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign carried out by

Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas On the June 4 edition of his weekly television program Alo Presidente, President Hugo Chavez announced the formation of a new social mission — Mission Tree — commencing a major campaign to save Venezuela's

Max Lane The Indonesian government's policy, announced last month, of giving a A$40 handout to people on an income of less than $25 per month as compensation for rises in fuel prices was only due to last for a few weeks, yet was supposed to help

Separate is not equal. That's the message of the gay civil rights movement that has burst forth across the US, inspired by the fight for the right of gays and lesbians to marry. Elizabeth Schulte, Steve Trussell and Sherry Wolf report. Thousands of

Azad Arman, an Iraqi Kurd now living in Melbourne, recently spent three months in northern Iraq. A member of the International Socialist Organisation, an affiliate of the Socialist Alliance, Arman spoke to Green Left Weekly's Chris Slee. The