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Federico Fuentes Antonio Peredo Leigue, a key leader of the Movement to Socialism in Bolivia wrote in an article published on argenpress.info on November 3, "In just one day, Sunday October 31, four elections in as many countries across Latin
REVIEW BY MAX WATTS Kisch in Australia — The Untold StoryBy Heidi Zogbaum, afterword by Marcus PatkaScribe Publications, Melbourne 2004240 pages, $26.95 (pb). Just 70 years ago, on November 13, 1934, Egon Erwin Kisch, a German-writing
Rohan Pearce Months ago, civil libertarians and supporters of democratic rights might have greeted the news of John Ashcroft's imminent retirement from the position of US attorney-general with relief. After all, Ashcroft, a nutty fundamentalist
John Howard's Liberal-National Coalition government sent Australian troops to join the illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Until recently, Labor's policy was to bring the troops home by Christmas. But after the election, and to the dismay
#2 La Trobe University evicts NTEU MELBOURNE — La Trobe University has served an eviction notice on the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), demanding that it vacate its office on campus by December 31. Campus unionists believe this is
Alex Miller Between November 4, when they were moved to central Iraq, and November 9, four soldiers from the Scottish Black Watch regiment were killed. On November 8, the Reuters news agency reported a British Ministry of Defence spokesman as
#4 Melbourne Social Forum MELBOURNE — The first Melbourne Social Forum will be held on November 28, strengthening the city's links to the global anti-capitalist movement. Speakers at the event, to be held at the Ceres environmental park in
Kamala Emanuel & Anthea Stutter, Hobart Tasmanian Aborigines and their supporters are campaigning in favour of the Aboriginal Lands Act 2004, due before state parliament in November. The bill, introduced by the government, will hand back three Bass
On August 27, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston was jailed for nine months for an industrial protest in defence of jobs. Despite 40-50 people being involved in the protest, only Johnston was
On October 19, 2001, the "SIEV X" boat sank between Indonesian and Australian waters, taking the lives of 353 people. Amal Basry survived the tragedy and the following is her story, which she told to Mary Dagmar Davies. Amal means hope in Arabic.
Vannessa Hearman Geoffrey Hearman was a Socialist Alliance member and a supporter of the refugees' rights campaign. A man with a deep sense of humanity, he was also my stepfather and a man who got me interested in politics. Born in Melbourne into
#3 Small wins for asylum seekers Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone, who has fought for the strictest possible interpretations of the Migration Act, faced a small setback in the High Court on October 27. An Iranian asylum seeker who has