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This week in history

July 6 1971: Demonstrators disrupt a Springbok rugby match in Australia with smoke bombs. July 9 1999: Police storm a Tehran University hostel in Iran, sparking days of student protests. July 10 1917: Emma Goldman is jailed for two years

BRITAIN: Saved at the last minute

On June 30, after five days without water and 11 without food, Iranian Seyed agreed to end his hunger strike because the local Social Services department agreed to give him emergency housing, money for food, and legal assistance to appeal the

Opposition to "welfare-to-poverty" agenda

Matthew Davis, Perth In response to the federal Coalition government's unfair changes to the disability support pension, peak body Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) has initiated Campaign Enable. The campaign will target 16

200,000 protest in Edinburgh

Alison Dellit In the largest protest in Scotland's history, more than 200,000 people, most wearing white, joined the July 2 Make Poverty History march through Edinburgh, ahead of the July 6-9 G8 summit. "Life doesn't have to be this way",

LEBANON: Left leader assassinated

Waving red hammer-and-sickle flags and banners of Lebanon's Communist Party (LCP), thousands of people marched through Beirut on June 24 behind the hearse carrying the body of assassinated LCP leader George Hawi. Hawi led the LCP during Lebanon's

'One thing to have laws, another to enforce them.'

Pip Hinman According to Marcus Clayton, an industrial lawyer and labour activist, the government's new workplace relations bills are designed to "provide the legal framework for bosses to slash wages and conditions, smash collective organisation,