Hundreds of people came together on November 16 to protest the installation of pre-paid water metres in Soweto and other townships. The protest was organised by a Coalition that included Anti-Privatisation Forum, Independent Baptists, Jubilee and the
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Doug Lorimer
Yasser Arafat, who died in a Paris hospital on November 11, at the age of 75, was the iconic figure of his people's struggle for freedom from six decades of brutal, US-backed, Zionist ethnic cleansing and colonisation of the
On November 16, the Philippines army and police massacred 16 people, including a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, in Hacienda Luisita, in Tarlac, during a protest of striking workers. More than 5000 sugar-mill workers and sugar-cane farmers in the
The following is a message from jailed unionist Craig Johnston to the November 25 Melbourne rally calling for his release and for an end to the criminalisation of unions.
From my prison cell in Loddon I thank you all for attending this rally. I
Alex Tighe, Adelaide
Angered by federal health minister Tony Abbott's claim that there is an "abortion epidemic" in Australia and calls by Coalition backbenchers for the federal government to restrict women's access to abortion services, on
Michael Karadjis
Five years after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops entered Kosova, occupation authorities have begun a program of privatisation of state and social enterprises.
The surprise is not that NATO and the United Nations
Liberated health care
"Patients and hospital employees [at Fallujah General Hospital] were rushed out of rooms by armed soldiers and ordered to sit or lie on the floor while troops tied their hands behind their backs." — New York Times, November
Roberto Jorquera
Since the 1960s, the US government has maintained a crippling economic blockade on Cuba. The blockade has had a devastating effect on the ability of the Cuban government to trade on the international market. The resulting isolation
Jon Lamb, Darwin
East Arm Wharf is a new sprawling development on the edge of Darwin that is fast becoming the hub of the town's maritime trade. Established in 1999, the site has next to no facilities for seafarers, waterside workers and others who
Ian Jamieson, Fremantle
With the support of the Greens in the Western Australian Legislative Council in October, Labor Premier Geoff Gallop's government finally succeeded, after four years, in getting its much-vaunted workers' compensation
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