BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Two hundred people demonstrated outside mining giant Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on April 18. The action, organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was in protest at the company's
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BY SOPHIA ZIELINSKA
PERTH — Why do we have to destroy a marine paradise just to build a giant man-made paddle pool for the elite? This is the question many ask about a proposal to build a tourist resort a short swim away from Ningaloo Reef.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Demonstrating the total bankruptcy of the so-called “leaders” of the
Arab world, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, gave
an interview to Insight Magazine on April 17 which bears more than
a passing
BY ALEX MILNE
EAST GIPPSLAND — More than 20 logging areas (coups) have been planned for Goolengook, in East Gippsland in Victoria, of which four have already been logged. Much has been lost already, but a lot can still be saved if enough people
Museworthy: Suitcase
Your joy breaks into many colours when it passes through other people. Pain doesn't pass. It is a suitcase carried inside another and left as if abandoned. Heavy. Unopened. A journey never taken.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
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
BY PENNY DUGAN
PARIS — On March 23, the Revolutionary Communist League
(LCR, French section of the Fourth International) deposited at the Constitutional
Council the 500 "sponsorships" that will enable its candidate, Olivier
Besancenot, to
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY — Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting
planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands
on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of
BY ROHAN PEARCE
If it weren't for the horrendous death toll of Palestinians, the destruction of West Bank towns and the fierce repression of dissent of anti-war protesters within Israel, US Secretary of State Colin Powell's tour of the Middle East
BY URI AVNERY
TEL AVIV — One hundred and five years ago, the day after the first Zionist congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the state of the Jews." Last week, Ariel Sharon should have noted in his diary: "In
Resistance activists summonsed
MELBOURNE — Two members of the socialist youth group Resistance have been summonsed to appear in court in late May for "trespassing" while attempting to visit hunger-striking refugees at the Maribyrnong detention
Drugs industry
The current debate around the use of currently illicit drugs in the Northern Territory provides a perfect opportunity for government and the community to look at alternatives to the current approach of prohibition.
Psychedelics,
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