BY STUART MARTIN
WOLLONGONG — "If the Socialist Alliance is going to gain the confidence of working people, we have to make a firm commitment to our policies. It's not enough to have a great platform, we have to be supporting these campaigns."
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By Stephen Marks
US government officials have reacted with hostility to the possibility that Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) may be re-elected president of Nicaragua on November 4.
US ambassador to Nicaragua,
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — Having arrived at his St Kilda press conference more than an hour late, Michael Franti was quick to break with the convention and respectability of the expensive surrounds of the Astor Hotel.
Sitting on the back of
BY JON LAND
The start of the formal election campaign period for East Timor's new Constituent Assembly began on July 15. Some 16 political parties and a number of independent candidates are contesting 88 seats in the election set for August 30,
By Raul Cienfuegos
The latest phase of US military intervention in Colombia — the US$7.5 billion Plan Colombia — under the thin veil of the "war on drugs" has completed over a year of operations. The US is now topping up their $1.3 billion
BY DALE MCKINLEY
HARARE — Zimbabwe's worsening political and economic crisis is doing more than any Marxist text could ever do to turn ordinary Zimbabweans into potential revolutionaries.
A majority of politicians and "experts" (both in
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Council of Unions has backed a proposal for a march the day before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting begins here on October 6, but has refused to back a planned "people's unity march" on the
BY LARA PULLIN
CANBERRA — On July 14, the conflict between police and protesters at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy site turned violent. A police car ran into indigenous custodian Daryl Bloomfield, knocking him onto its bonnet in full view of TV
BY STUART ROSS
The Ulster Defense Association (UDA) — also known as the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) — has announced that it will be withdrawing its support for the Good Friday Agreement.
"We can no longer remain silent in our criticism of
BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE — It was standing room only when Naomi Klein came to town on July 16, packing out both the Atheneum Theatre and the Trades Hall Council auditorium.
Hundreds crammed in to hear the Canadian activist and author speak about
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Some 400 people attended the Now We The People conference over the July 14-15 weekend to discuss the negative impact of economic rationalism and corporate globalisation on ordinary people's lives.
Sponsored by a wide
By Roberto Jorquera
On June 8, a federal court in Miami convicted five Cuban citizens on espionage and murder charges. Three of them, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino and Antonio Guerrero, were convicted of "conspiracy to commit espionage" and
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