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BY MATTHEW RICH MELBOURNE — On July 18, 60 people attended a public meeting on Indonesia's war on Aceh, organised by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP). The speakers were John Martinkus, a journalist recently returned from
BY ELISABETH KEAN In a 24-hour period, the Israeli military placed 10 International Solidarity Movement (ISM) peace volunteers in "administrative detention" at the Ariel settlement police station in the West Bank. Administrative detention is
BY JASON CAHILL BRISBANE — 4ZZZ FM is a community-based radio station that is famous for the support it gives to progressive movements. It is one of the few media outlets to freely publicise the activities of the anti-war movement. The station
BY ANDY McINERNEY When Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998, millions of the country's poor and working-class people put their hopes in him to build a government capable of advancing their interests. Four and a half years
BY ROBYN MARSHALL VILLA GRIMALDI, Santiago — Until the end of the 1980s, Villa Grimaldi was the centre of detention and torture of Chilean citizens during the US-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power on September 11,
BY THE PARTIDO NG MANGGAGAWANG PILIPINO(Philippines Workers Party, PMP) MANILA, July 27 — The rank-and-file soldiers, junior officers from the rank of lieutenant-colonel down, have taken over the Ayala center in Makati, the heart of the business
On July 26, we celebrated, with the Cuban people, one of the most remarkable achievements of bravery and commitment to justice in our time. It is an achievement that in spite of all the hardship inflicted on them for so many years by an unrelenting
BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Blindfolded, giggling children trying to hit a pi¤ata is not unusual. But when the pi¤ata looks like "Uncle Sam" with a skull for a face, you know this is no ordinary fiesta. Fifty years after Fidel Castro led an
BY CHRIS LATHAM During the past two decades, the number of Australian workers employed as casual workers has grown dramatically. More than 2 million workers — or a quarter of the workforce — are now employed on a casual basis. "Casual
BY NOREEN NAVIN& OWEN RICHARDS SYDNEY — Thousands of NSW teachers will stop work for two hours on July 29 to discuss the NSW Teacher Federation's negotiations with Premier Bob Carr's Labor government over teachers' salaries. NSW teachers have
BY GRANT COLEMAN The federal government's plans for higher education, contained in the package "Our universities: backing Australia's future", represent the most decisive step towards a tiered, privatised system since the abolition of free
BY DOUG LORIMER Disaffection is growing in the United States as an increasing number of people realise they were conned by the propaganda of US President George Bush's administration — which was uncritically parroted by the US corporate media —