Federico Fuentes

  • UWA declared refugee safe haven

    PERTH &#151 Refugees' rights activists scored a major victory on October 22, as students voted to declare the University of Western Australia Guild a refugee safe haven. Nearly 900 students voted during the half-day of polling,

  • UWA to become a refugee safe haven?

    PERTH — Refugees' rights activists at the University of Western Australia pledged to turn their campus into a refugee safe haven at the launch of the campaign on August 8. The campaign is being organised by the UWA Refugee

  • Police attack peaceful protest

    PERTH — On July 25, police launched an extremely brutal attack on a peaceful student protest. Thirty-five students were assaulted with batons and squirted with pepper spray. The students had gathered at Curtin University to

  • Student conference to welcome refugees

    Student conference to welcome refugeesPERTH — The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability (S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that it will give sanctuary to

  • VENEZUELA: Why Washington tried to topple Chavez

    Since the failed April 11-14 coup against Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, it has become even clearer that the move to topple the oil-rich Latin American country's democratically elected government was inspired from

  • VENEZUELA: US role in coup exposed

    The April 22 edition of Newsweek magazine reported that the plotters behind the failed April 12-14 coup in Venezuela had revealed their plan to the US embassy in Caracas less than two months earlier. A senior US state

  • VENEZUELA: Uprising defeats US-backed coup

    The simple slogan on a wall in Caracas explained it all: "Yankee, game over. You lost". Within the space of 48 hours, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was overthrown by a military coup, only to be swept back to power by an uprising of the Venezuelan people.

  • ARGENTINA: 'For a government of popular assemblies!'

    Protests against the government in Argentina continue to grow. Calls for new elections and the resignation of the government are being increasingly linked to the demand for a "workers' government". On February 15, 20,000

  • VENEZUELA: Anti-Chavez campaign escalates

    The campaign against leftist President Hugo Chavez, led by local big business interests and backed by Washington, has rapidly escalated in recent months, with more and more talk of the need to remove Chavez. On November 5-7,

  • Coalition, ALP refugee policy condemned.

    PERTH — "The way we treat our most vulnerable and powerless will mark our society for years to come", Carmen Lawrence, ALP MP for Fremantle and the shadow minister for indigenous affairs, told 600 refugee-rights protesters on

  • Support gathers for West Papua

    MELBOURNE — Indigenous, trade union and religious leaders from around Australia and the region will gather here in September to sign a memorandum of understanding in support of West Papua's independence struggle. The

  • Student activists map out anti-corporate protests

    MELBOURNE — Students have begun to organise for the biggest possible blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum on October 3 to 5. On nearly all university and TAFE campuses, students have formed collectives to help build the