Nelson Davila
Within Venezuela we have always had strong solidarity movements with just struggles around the world, such as with Vietnam and Cuba. Our struggle in Venezuela is an international struggle, a struggle without borders. A central aspect
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SYDNEY — Fifty-five people attended an April 4 forum at the University of NSW on "War and racism: why are Muslims targeted?" It was the first public event organised by the UNSW Students Against War.
Waleed Khadous from the UNSW Islamic Society
FREMANTLE — On April 6, 100 people picketed PM John Howard when he visited Fremantle harbour for the launch of the Dufyken's voyage around Australia. The protest, organised by UnionsWA to express opposition to the government's new Work Choices
SYDNEY — More than 240 people attended the Australia Cuba Friendship Society's largest solidarity dinner in several years on April 2. The theme was "Venezuela and Cuba making history together".
Nick Rawson, an ACFS organiser, said the turnout
Ray Fulcher, Melbourne
David Hicks' US military lawyer Major Mike Mori told a packed audience at Melbourne University law school on April 6 that Hicks' trial was "politically motivated". Mori was delivering the law school's 2006 Alumni lecture,
MELBOURNE — A thousand unionists and community members joined a solidarity picnic at Yarraville Gardens on April 2. The gathering listened to speakers, including ACTU assistant secretary Sharan Burrow and civil liberties lawyer Rob Stary, condemn
"Almost 6700 Britons have needed hospital treatment in Iraq since the invasion three years ago — almost as many as the total number of British troops still stationed there", the March 31 Belfast Telegraph reported. According to Ministry of Defence
Sue Bolton
For two months, students and workers across France have been striking and protesting against a new law allowing employers to sack young workers for no reason within their first two years of employment.
Around 3 million people poured
Venezuelanalysis.com reported on April 4 that Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez gained an 82.7% approval rate in the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis.From Green Left Weekly, April 12, 2006.
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BY ALISON DELLIT
Asked in 2005 if his decision to ask DC to remove his name from the V for Vendetta comic he scripted in the 1980s constituted "throwing the baby out with the bathwater", Alan Moore explained: "The baby is one I put a great deal of
Just eight months of Howard control of the Senate has produced:
The Building Improvement Act, which puts coppers on work sites and fines workers $22,000 for refusing to incriminate themselves.
The Work Choices legislation, which gives employers
Ron Perkins, Perth
On April 5, the Maritime Union of Australia led a snap protest involving 300 MUA members against the provocative actions of a number of maritime industry-based companies.
Addressing the rally, MUA state secretary Chris Cain
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