Stuart Munckton
US multinational corporation IBM was recently fined and had its Caracas offices forcibly closed down for 48 hours by the Venezuelan government for attempting to avoid paying its taxes, according to an October 6 Canadian Press
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Doug Lorimer
Argentine President Nestor Kirchner emerged as the victor after the country's October 23 mid-term legislative elections. Kirchner's Peronist governing Front for Victory (FPV) won 43% of the popular vote in the lower-house Chamber of
With its fourth-term agenda, the Howard government has launched a vicious attack on working people, both in and out of work.
Its proposed changes to industrial relations are aimed at crushing the ability of workers to organise collectively, and
WorkChoices
At an invitation-only BBQ in Canberra, Stephen Jones, assistant national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, eloquently outlined his battle plan to defeat the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation. Plan A:
Peter Woodward
$484.40
That's the weekly rate an employer will be able to pay an adult employee under John Howard's new industrial laws in John Howard's new Australia.
"But why can't they pay me that now?" you may ask. Because most people are
Graham Matthews, Sydney
An October 26 public forum organised by members of the Labor Party on the topic of whether the ALP could win the next federal election (in 2007) drew 200 people, many of whom were upset with Labor's inability to distinguish
Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz
Bolivia is once again on the path of political uncertainty, after the Constitutional Tribunal (CT) on September 22 ordered the Congress to modify the electoral law (used to convoke the December 4 general elections) to
Tony Kevin
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has done all Australian citizens and residents a great service by making public on October 14 the proposed raft of counter-terrorism legislation that PM John Howard had laid confidentially before
Dale Mills
Australia is the only industrialised country without a human rights act or its equivalent. Despite being a founding member of the United Nations and a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, successive Australian
Marce Cameron
On November 8, Cuba will once again present a resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the US economic blockade of the island nation. Last year, the assembly voted by 179 votes in favour, four against (the US,
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly has officially opened its Caracas news bureau, sharing an office with the web news service Venezuelanalysis.com, in the administrative division of TELESUR, the new pan Latin American television channel. Pictured are GLW
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Opponents of the nuclear industry took their message to the federal parliamentary inquiry into uranium resources when it met in Darwin on October 24. Deceptively calling itself "the inquiry into developing Australia's
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