While much of Venezuelan's attention is focussed on the December 4 National Assembly elections, another set of important elections are scheduled to take place during November in the municipality of Sucre.
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MELBOURNE — More than 80 people attended a double-header launch on October 28. The Melbourne west district of Socialist Alliance launched its campaign for the Maribyrnong Council elections and new activist band The Conch gave its first ever
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New high school zine launched
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
Over the recent school holidays, a group of Adelaide high school students, in association with Resistance, produced the first issue of a new zine, The Bench. The zine has
Nicole Colson, Chicago
Force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is being used as a form of torture, says a lawyer for several detainees.
According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Julia
Frida Kahlo: Between Passion and Pain — Tells the story of world-renowned Mexican artist and iconic figure Frida Kahlo, in her own words using extracts from her diary. SBS, Saturday, November 5, 3.05pm.
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of
Refusenik! Israel's Soldiers of ConscienceCompiled and edited by Peretz KidronZed Books120 pages
REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE
On October 20, 1956, Israeli soldiers killed 47 Palestinians from the village of Kafr Qasem, who were returning home from
Kerry Vernon, Newcastle
The University of Newcastle will expel the offices of staff unions from its campus in November in order to receive an extra $6 million in funding from the federal Coalition government.
A letter of expulsion was sent to the
American Civil Liberties Union analysis has found "irrefutable evidence that US operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogations", according to ACLU attorney Amrit Singh. The ACLU studied the cases of 44 prisoners who died in US military
Sean Seymour Jones, Melbourne
It is becoming more and more obvious that the so-called war on terror is being used in countries like Australia as a pretext for significant attacks on civil liberties. The Australian government has tried to sell these
Sarah Stephen
Following a coordinated series of raids by Australian Federal Police and immigration department (DIMIA) officers on houses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane last December 1, four refugee supporters in Sydney were charged with helping
On October 27, some 1000 people rallied in Port Moresby to highlight the struggle for West Papua's independence. West Papua was annexed by Indonesia in 1969 after a sham "act of free choice" and both the PNG and Australian governments support
At the Tyson Foods slaughterhouse in Brooks, more than 2300 workers have been on strike since October 12 to demand better wages and conditions. The United Food and Commercial Workers members are demanding an end to harassment, improved safety
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