Karen Fletcher, Melbourne
La Trobe University was pretty much closed for business by a well-supported staff and student strike on May 4. Every major entrance to the university was blocked by union picket lines, campus coffee shops reported business
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Hoang Thi Nghi is 77 years old and today, 30 years after the Vietnamese people's defeat of the US occupation of their country, she works among the poor and disadvantaged in Vietnam. Her life paints an extraordinary picture of the courage,
Rohan Pearce
The post-9/11 rehabilitation of thinly veiled imperialist militarism, in the guise of the "war on terror", has been a massive windfall for "private military companies" (PMCs) — the preferred euphemism of the modern mercenary
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REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
As you grow older you forget. My ears have been listening to music for longer than I know and thousands of melodies have wafted between my two earlobes.
I have been treated to so
Pip Hinman
Anti-war groups across Australia responded quickly to the news that US-based Australian contractor Douglas Wood had been taken hostage in Iraq. Snap protests were held in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in the first week of May to urge his
SYDNEY — On May 1, 100 people attended a meeting organised by the NSW Greens at the Newtown Hotel to discuss same-sex marriage laws. The meeting was addressed by Rodney Croome, gay rights advocate from Tasmania, Tasmanian Greens MP Nick McKim,
On May 5, a union meeting of 300 police in PNG demanded that the Australian police serving in the country leave within 48 hours. In a statement, they explained that crime has risen since the 160 police arrived earlier this year. They also criticised
Roberto Jorquera, Caracas
May Day 2005 will go down in Venezuelan history as an significant date in the developing revolution. Although there was no official estimate release, it is speculated that around 1 million workers marched through Caracas
BRISBANE — On May3, 400 people rallied in King George Square to protest against the state funeral held in Kingaroy that day for former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Speakers included veteran left activists Brian Laver, Drew Hutton, Carole Ferrier
The trial of alleged SIEV X people smuggler Khaleed Daoed is scheduled to commence in the Brisbane Supreme Court on May 17 and will run for at least three weeks. The boat dubbed the SIEV X sank in international waters off Indonesia on October 19,
On May 3, Brazil's government rejected a $40 million grant from the US to fight AIDS, explaining that its conditions were "too severe". The grant was conditional on Brazil's government taking a "moral" stand opposing, among other things,
Fred Fuentes
In the biggest march ever organised by the powerful Movement of Landless Workers (MST), around 13,000 peasants, accompanied by workers from occupied factories, indigenous peoples and others, set out from Goiania, Brazil, on May 2 to
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