World

  • Prawn farming lays waste to Thai mangroves

    Vudthikorn Chittiwan is a lecturer in aquatic science at Prince of Songkla University in south Thailand. He has a scholarship from the Australian government to study the environmental impacts of prawn farming on mangrove

  • INDIA: Congress forms new government

    Sam Pillay Seven days after India's voters ditched the Hindu chauvinist BJP-led government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh was shown in as India's 14th prime minister, at the head of a new Congress Party-led government. The

  • VENEZUELA: Women take revolutionary strides

    The National Institute for Women (INAMUJER) aims to fight for equal opportunity and equality before the law for Venezuelan women. Green Left Weekly's Rachel Evans and Coral Wynter spoke to Corina Fumero, INAMUJER's assistant for international

  • URUGUAY: 'We are not going to sign the FTA with the US'

    "We are not going to sign the TLC [Free Trade Agreement] with the United States", Hugo Rodriguez, secretary of the Chamber of Senators and director of the Uruguayan Socialist Party, which is part of the Frente Amplio government, told Green Left

  • Pakistan earthquake appeal

    Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific is collecting donations from Australian activists to send to Pakistan for the Labour Relief Camp for Earthquake Victims. The LRCEV is a coalition of progressive organisations, including the Labour

  • VENEZUELA: The Bolivarian Revolution will not be defeated

    Leonel Vivas Since President Hugo Chavez won five years ago a national election with an overwhelming majority, a revolution is developing in my country — a very original revolution is being made by peaceful and democratic means, without violence,

  • IRAQ: US Army 'stretched to breaking point'

    Doug Lorimer In a study for the Pentagon, Andrew Krepinevich, a retired US Army officer, concluded that the US Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to defeat the anti-occupation insurgency. He also suggested that

  • IRAQ: Resistance attacks on British troops escalating

    The British military announced on May 29 that two of its soldiers had died in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, bringing the total number of British military fatalities in May to nine. "The deaths are a clear sign that rebel

  • Ray Alexander, 1913-2004

    Saranel Benjamin, Durban Rachel (Ray) Alexander died at her Cape Town home on September 12. She had lived a long life of 90 years and during this time she painted the South African political landscape with courage, fierce determination and

  • IRAQ: Referendum rigged by US-backed parties

    Doug Lorimer While US President George Bush praised the October 15 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution as evidence of Iraq's "progress toward democracy", preliminary results of the voting released by the Independent Election Commission of Iraq

  • UNITED STATES: Huge turnout for abortion rights rally

    Nicole Colson, Chicago "There are just so many people." — Tawana Evans was overwhelmed by the estimated 1 million turnout for the April 25 march for women's lives in Washington, DC. Travelling from Houston with a Planned Parenthood contingent of