BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Two hundred people demonstrated outside mining giant Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on April 18. The action, organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was in protest at the company's
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT).
Venezolana de
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — Israel's attack on the Jenin refugee camp will be recorded as one of the bloodiest massacres in the history of the Zionist state.
The scenes of devastation go beyond anything describable in words. Friends of mine who
Museworthy: Suitcase
Your joy breaks into many colours when it passes through other people. Pain doesn't pass. It is a suitcase carried inside another and left as if abandoned. Heavy. Unopened. A journey never taken.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY Human capital, the level of knowledge of our people, is
the most important type of capital in Cuba. Otto Rivero Torres, Cuba's
minister for youth and the first secretary of the Union of Communist Youth,
BY ANNE WINKLER-MOREY
To those of you who would call me a self-hating Jew because I oppose
the Israeli government's policy of terrorism and apartheid against the
Palestinian people, let me say this right away before you do: I do not
go to
BY ROHAN PEARCE
If it weren't for the horrendous death toll of Palestinians, the destruction of West Bank towns and the fierce repression of dissent of anti-war protesters within Israel, US Secretary of State Colin Powell's tour of the Middle East
No Israeli defence of its war on the Palestinians would be complete without a reference to Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat's supposed rejection of "peace" at the July 2000 Camp David summit hosted by US President Bill Clinton. The story is
BY ALEX MILNE
EAST GIPPSLAND — More than 20 logging areas (coups) have been planned for Goolengook, in East Gippsland in Victoria, of which four have already been logged. Much has been lost already, but a lot can still be saved if enough people
HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
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