Graham Matthews, Sydney
"Building the fightback against Howard's agenda" was the theme of the Socialist Alliance's NSW state conference held at the Newton Neighbourhood Centre on April 16. Ninety members and supporters of the Socialist Alliance
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Bill Mason, Brisbane
Representatives of the old and new generations of Resistance members combined to celebrate the Brisbane launch on April 16 of a new book on the history of Australia's longest existing socialist youth organisation —
After attending a March performance of the play The Vagina Monologues, Carrie Rethlefsen and Emily Nixon decided to make "I [heart] my vagina" badges and wear them to their Minnesota high school, to spark discussion about sexual violence and women's
Kim Bullimore
Eyal Brami and Alex Kohn are 18 years old and serving time in an Israeli jail. Their crime is their refusal to be conscripted into the Israeli military and to serve as part of an occupying force in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The cover-up of the murder of Douglas Scott in Darwin's Berrimah prison continues to unravel in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. The case against the NT government and three prison officers, Barry Medley, Michael Lawson
Roberto Jorquera, Caracas
Three thousand people, including leftists from the US, Canada, Australia and most of Latin America, attended the third Global Encounter in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, held on April 13-16.
The event began
April 27
1904: The first Australian Labor Party government is elected.
1973: Female script assistants walk off the job, launching the ABC's first ever strike.
April 28
1981: Thousands march against Expo 88 and demand Aboriginal land rights.
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Phil Glendenning from the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) was the keynote speaker at a meeting organised by the Refugee Action Coalition on April 21. He told a crowd of 70 people that the Australian government has been involved in
Duroyan Fertl
After four months of mounting political pressure and constitutional crisis, the people of Ecuador have driven President Lucio Gutierrez from office. In the face of unstoppable mass protest, and growing calls for the dissolution of
On April 22, the British Association of University Teachers voted to boycott two Israeli universities — Haifa and Bar Ilans — because of their failure to speak out against the Israeli government's attacks on Palestine. The boycott will follow a
Peter Sypkens, Hobart
More than 1000 people marched through Southport Lagoon Conservation Area in southern Tasmania on April 17, to support the protection of Recherche Bay, a national heritage-listed site under threat from logging.
The march
Simon Cunich
In January, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the nationalisation of Venepal, one of the country's largest paper mills, which had been occupied and run by workers, he called on "workers' leaders to follow this path ...
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