BY NICOLE COLSON
Colombian President Andres Pastrana gave the order on February 20 for his military to invade territory controlled by left-wing rebels in a deadly escalation of the government's four-decade-old dirty war.
Pastrana broke off talks
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Bus drivers strike for better pay
SYDNEY — Government bus services in Sydney and Newcastle stopped for 48 hours on March 6-7, as drivers and maintenance workers took strike action over pay.
The strike was called after the Rail, Tram and Bus
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — "The problem of Afghanistan is a political one. It won't be solved with aid. As long as warlordism continues, there will be no real solution", Tahmeena Faryal, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
For several months, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) party has been whipping
up communal tension and targeting Muslims in India. In particular, it has
renewed its focus on building a Hindu temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh,
at the same site
BY ALISON DELLIT
During the 1990s, successive Australian federal and state governments sold public assets worth a total of $85 billion — equal to the combined size of the Western Australian and Queensland economies. Australia's privatisation
BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — Through the US government's anti-Cuba propaganda outlet Radio Marti, the right-wing "Miami mafia" provoked a break-in and occupation by hooligans of the Mexican embassy in Havana on February 27.
Beamed from Miami into
BY NGLINTING DARMONO
YOGYAKARTA — Two hundred protesters from across central Java gathered in Yogyakarta on March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
The protesters marched from Gadjah Mada University to the regional parliament. Their demands
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — On February 26, the Socialist Alliance received confirmation from State Electoral Office that the alliance has been registered as a political party in NSW.
This enables the alliance to have its name printed on ballot
BY TERESA FOARD
LONDON — Around 20,000 people mobilised on March 2 in Hyde Park to march to Trafalgar Square for a rally called by the Stop the War Coalition — a broad movement of the left and trade unions.
The anti-war protest had three
Museworthy: Silence and its Answer
The uprooting of words
took place here
in the country with no tongue
The most silent of plants
grows here
It is an animal
that turns its belly
to the blade
and faces with the heart's generic
Sweden
Annual refugee resettlement quota of 1800.
In 1999 34% of 11,231 asylum claims were approved for refugee status.
No skilled migration or family reunion program.
Asylum seekers spend at least two weeks in Carlslund Refugee Reception
Afghan, Iraqi events
SYDNEY — Around 60 people gathered in Parramatta Town Hall on March 8 for a "Women's rights are human rights" dinner organised by the worker-communist parties of Iraq and Iran. The next night, around 200 members of the Afghan
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