Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz
Government officials and planners have long seen El Alto as a "problem city" — a hotbed of political protest, indigenous people's resistance and autonomous grassroots organisation.
El Alto — located 4000 metres above
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Alex Broun
It was an extraordinary moment — not just for Australian television but for the battle for more humane treatment for abused and neglected refugees in Australia.
It was Sunday night on Channel Ten — another mundane eviction episode
David Scrimgeour
The Coalition government is currently spending millions of dollars in an advertising campaign to convince the Australian people that the recent legislative changes with "strengthen" Medicare.
Not only is this a blatant waste of
Up to 10,000 people, including veterans carrying photos of US soldiers killed in Iraq, march in San Francisco on June 5 to demand an end to the occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Haiti. Simultaneous anti-occupation marches attracted up to 7000
Monica Hill, New York
Radicals representing divergent opinions and various tendencies and groups crowded into Freedom Hall in Harlem on June 2 to take part in a forum entitled "Is it time for a US socialist alliance?"
The 70 people present
SYDNEY — On June 10, refugee-rights group ChilOut marked the passing of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's deadline for children and their parents to be released from immigration detention.
In Sydney, 500 people rallied and
The corporate media have filled the airwaves with days on end of nauseating tributes to Ronald Reagan. Here, Alan Maass and Lee Sustar from the US Socialist Worker tell the truth about this disgusting bigot.
It was natural that US President George
SARAH STEPHEN
Franciszek Kulon was born in Sanok, Poland, and developed his painting skills by studying with masters such as Bronislaw Naczas, Edward Kiferling, Marian Kruczek and Michal Bylina.
Today, Kulon lives in the Catskills, not far from
Rohan Pearce
The exposure of the brutal policy of torture carried out by the US occupiers in Iraq is just the latest political debacle for the governments of the US-British-Australian invasion coalition. Just like the scandal over Iraq's
DARWIN — Participants in a June 7 protest against the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources. The protest was organised to coincide with the annual South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference.
Photo by Kathy
Lynda Hansen, Brisbane
Participants in the annual Pride rally at King George Square on June 12 had plenty to be angry about. The event followed the announcement of the federal government's intention to exclude same-sex couples from the definition
Norman Brewer, Auckland
In elections on May 9 in New Caledonia (Kanaky) and on May 23 in French Polynesia (Te Ao Maohi, also known by the name of its main island, Tahiti), both pro-French ruling parties unexpectedly found themselves unseated. In
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