World

  • Venezuela's sexual revolution within the revolution

    At the January World Social Forum in Caracas, Green Left Weekly's Rachel Evans and Maurice Farrell caught up with Ricardo Hung from the Alianza Lambda gay-rights organisation and Moises Rivera Lopez, the coordinator of the Sexual Riverside Network

  • BRITAIN: Left current launched in new lecturers' union

    Alex Miller, London Some 220 members of the University and College Union (UCU) met at the London Metropolitan University on June 24 to launch the UCU Left, an organised progressive platform within the 120,000-strong union, which was formed when the

  • IRAN: US floats new WMD fabrication

    Doug Lorimer A claim by US intelligence officials that they possess "strong circumstantial" evidence that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program were dismissed on November 14 by US nuclear weapons expert David Albright. According to the

  • In brief

    HAITI: Disease epidemic looms As the death toll from Hurricane Jeanne's attack on Haiti continues to climb well over 2000, Oxfam health experts in the country have warned of a looming disease epidemic, as hundreds of thousands of people are forced

  • HAITI: Washington was behind coup says Aristide

    Alison Dellit "The Haitian constitution is working", US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped

  • CANADA: 'Anti-terror' arrests aimed at anti-war movement

    Ian Angus, Toronto On June 2, a combined force of local, provincial and federal police arrested 15 young Muslim men, including five minors, in the Toronto area. Those 15, and two others who have been in jail since last August, are accused of

  • CFMEU commits to solidarity with Venezuela

    On October 17, the CFMEU Construction and Energy Division adopted the following resolution in solidarity with Venezuela at its national conference. The CFMEU Construction and Energy Division congratulates and supports the Venezuelan government for

  • ISRAEL: &#145Holiday! Liberate!&#146

    Kim Bullimore, Tel Aviv As Israeli and international peace activists gathered outside of the David Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday night, the tune of Madonna's hit Holiday blared from the speakers, only the words had been changed. "Holiday,

  • Gay marriage: A struggle for all of us

    Married with a house in the suburbs, 1.9 kids and a white picket fence? No thanks. Some people on the left have echoed this caricature, arguing that radicals should oppose gay marriage — or at least turn our attentions elsewhere. True, marriage

  • SRI LANKA: Air force bombs Tamils

    Two Sri Lankan Air Force jets began bombing the town of Mullaithivu and its suburbs on June 15, according to a TamilNet report. The town is controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE's S. Elilan said that Sampoor and Muttur East in

  • INDIA: Terror, tragedy and policies of insecurity

    Swadesh Bhattacharya Even as India was getting ready for the festivities of Deewali and Eid, October 29 turned out to be India's saddest Saturday in recent memory. Tragedy struck in the wee hours when many bogies of a Secunderabad-bound passenger

  • IRAN: UN inspectors report no evidence of nukes

    Doug Lorimer United Nations inspectors have found no clear evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, according to a report circulated to the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Iranian government