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  • UNITED STATES: Gay marriage legalised in Massachusetts

    The US Socialist Worker's Gina Sartori, Conor Morey-Barrett and Elizabeth Schulte report on the victory for gay marriage in Massachusetts. Thousands of people gathered at city halls across Massachusetts on May 17 as the state took its place in the

  • CAMBODIA: Sex workers celebrate unity

    Allen Myers, Phnom Penh Several hundred members and supporters of the Women's Network for Unity (WNU), the union of sex workers, gathered on June 28 to celebrate the organisation's sixth anniversary. The events began on the bank of the Tonle Sap

  • PACIFIC: Rising sea levels force evacuations

    On November 24, plans were put in place to evacuate the 980 people living on the six Carteret atolls, after they battled for decades with the effects of climate change. The Papua New Guinean government will move 10 families at a time to Bougainville,

  • Anti-war vet speaks out: Getting to the bottom of it

    Lou Plummer is a member of Military Families Speak Out and the Bring Them Home Now Campaign. He offers a war veterans take on the debate around the US military's torture of Iraqi prisoners. One Friday when I was in my early 20s, I took off my

  • PHILIPPINES: Protests expected against emergency decree

    Max Lane Warrantless arrests appear to be one of the first results of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyos's February 24 declaration of a state of emergency, professor Randy David from the University of the Philippines told Green Left Weekly from

  • 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

  • EGYPT: Anti-globalisation activist still imprisoned

    Wael Khalil from the Egyptian Anti-Globalisation Group remains in pre-trial detention after he was arrested at an April 27 protest in support of the independence of the judiciary. Khalil has been actively involved in many grassroots campaigns against

  • VENEZUELA: Culture and politics - a tale of two suburbs

    Margarita Windisch, Caracas Three months after the takeover of the local metropolitan police station by the poor community of 23 Enero, in the west of Caracas, the place is as busy as a beehive. The Coordinadora Simon Bolivar (CSB), a militant

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez dumps Monsanto

    Jason Tockman, Caracas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the

  • 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,

  • VENEZUELA: US isolation campaign falters

    Stuart Munckton Venezuela's push to join the United Nations Security Council has triggered a new conflict between the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez and Washington, which is desperately manoeuvring to stop this from occurring.