After having supported the May 20 international day of action in solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba, the National Union of Students (NUS) has taken a retrograde step by voting against giving support to the international week of solidarity with Venezuela starting on November 12.
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Venezuela has alleged there is a new plot backed by the US to destabilise the left-wing government of President Hugo Chavez in the lead-up to the December 3 presidential elections. According to independent polls, Chavez has a huge lead over opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.
EM>91自拍论坛 Weekly is calling on supporters to help get the paper into thousands of new hands on November 30 鈥 the ACTU-called national day of action against Work Choices.
GLW is committed to the union and community campaign against the Howard
Despite a relentless campaign by the Bush administration to derail his election, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega won Nicaragua鈥檚 November 5 presidential election.
The ABC announced on October 31 that it was axing the popular satirical TV panel show The Glass House 聴 one day after NSW Liberal Senator Connie Fierrvanti-Wells attacked the show in a parliamentary estimates committee hearing examining 聯ABC bias聰.
Michael Lebowitz is a director of the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM), a Caracas-based foundation for analysis and discussion of Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution; professor emeritus of the department of economics at Simon Fraser University, Canada; and author of several books on Marxism and socialism, including his newly published Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy about the unfolding revolution in Venezuela.
A new 聯security pact聰 between Australia and Indonesia, to be signed on November 13 in Lombok, will strengthen Canberra聮s military and economic alliance with Jakarta, at the expense of the peoples of both countries.
Within hours of the November 7 mid-term US congressional elections, in which voters expressed their disaffection with the US-led war in Iraq by ousting a raft of Republican legislators, US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld fell on his sword, handing President George Bush his resignation.
Like a large part of the continent, Victoria is in the grip of unprecedented drought. Across the state, dams are rapidly emptying and river flows are at record lows, cities and towns face drastic restrictions and farmers confront an uncertain future. The water crisis gives the question of global warming and catastrophic climate change a new immediacy, and is a major issue in the November 25 state election.
For Margarita Windisch, an anti-war leader and one of the organisers of the G20 protests in Melbourne, the 鈥淗ey, vote for us! We鈥檒l sort it all out!鈥 attitude of the two major parties is not only condescending, it is increasingly falling on deaf ears. This is because the major parties have not, and cannot, 鈥渟ort it鈥 to meet people鈥檚 needs, she said.
鈥淚n practice, it has been a shabby affair, marred by serious flaws that call into question the capacity of the tribunal, as currently established, to administer justice fairly, in conformity with international standards鈥, Amnesty International spokesperson Malcolm Smart told journalists in London after the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) imposed the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his seven co-accused on November 5.
As the November 7 emergency water summit of federal and state parliamentarians was told that the current drought is the worst in 1000 years, the opposition parties criticised the governments for fiddling while the drought worsens. Greens Senator Rachel Siewert claimed the summit 聯shied away from making the tough decisions at a time when urgent action was sorely needed聰.
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