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  • IRAN: 'Is being feminist criminal?'

    Following a June 12 protest for women's rights in Tehran that was brutally attacked by police, Green Left Weekly spoke to an Iranian feminist, Roshan (not her real name), about the situation facing women in Iran and the battle for women's rights.

  • IRAQ: Escalating resistance to face martial law

    Doug Lorimer As Iraqi resistance fighters fought running gunbattles in the streets of central Baghdad, on July 7 the US-appointed Interim Government of Iraq (IGI) announced a set of security laws that will override the country's interim

  • VENEZUELA: The threat of a decent society

    John Pilger I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential rain and emerge at night like fireflies in the fog. Caracas is said to be one of the

  • NEW ZEALAND: Woolworths locks out workers

    Sue Bolton A New Zealand subsidiary of Australian retailing giant Woolworths responded to a 48-hour strike by its employees at distribution centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch on August 25 by locking them out. The sudden lockout

  • IRAQ: The corporate reconstruction racket

    Doug Lorimer Eleven months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the electricity supply in the country's two largest cities — Baghdad and Basra — has still not been fully restored. By contrast, it took Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime only three

  • IRAN: Tehran rejects illegal UN ultimatum

    Doug Lorimer On July 31, Iranian UN ambassador Javad Zarif denounced as illegal a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council demanding that his country suspend its research into the production of nuclear power-plant fuel (low-enriched uranium) by

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez pushes Zulia recall referendum

    Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Speaking to thousands of supporters during a September 6 election rally in Maracaibo, capital of the western state of Zulia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he would promote a recall referendum against

  • MAURITIUS: Solidarity vigil

    On August 7 a candlelight vigil in Port Louis, Mauritius' capital, expressed solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine. The protest called for a UN resolution to end Israel's war, as well as for a boycott of Israeli products and for the

  • NEW ZEALAND: Woolworths tries to smash union

    Troy McGuinness A 48-hour strike by 500 National Distribution Union members in three New Zealand cities has turned into all-out war. The workers were locked out of supermarket distribution centres when they took strike action on August 25.

  • 'It is Venezuela against imperialism'

    Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas Walter Gaviria, president of the Latin American Parliament, spoke briefly to Green Left Weekly on September 1, during a march to greet President Hugo Chavez, who had returned from an overseas trip. The campaign

  • BRITAIN: Terror alert boon for Blair, Bush

    Alex Miller On August 10 the British government's home secretary, John Reid, announced that a major terrorist plot involving the bombing of multiple transatlantic airline flights had been discovered by security services. Reid placed the country's

  • PAKISTAN: Progressive newspaper fund appeal

    Pat Denny The Labour Party Pakistan has issued a financial appeal to help maintain the newspaper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers' Struggle), which is Pakistan's only weekly Urdu-language socialist paper. The campaign is running until October 31. In