Saddam Hussein was rushed to the gallows as 2006 ended 鈥 a former dictator put to death under instructions from his one-time supporters in the US government.
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Sending shockwaves through the corporate elite, on January 8 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared his government鈥檚 intention of reversing the privatisations that had been carried out by previous governments. Declaring 鈥淲e鈥檙e on our way to socialism, and nothing and no-one can prevent it鈥, Chavez insisted, 鈥淎ll that was privatised, let it be nationalised鈥, according to a January 9 Associated Press report.
Nuclear power I
No nuclear plant in the World has survived without massive taxpayer subsidies. It's not an energy solution, it's corporate welfare. John Howard's more interested in pork barrelling his wealthy mates than providing Australians with
While starving Australia聮s public education and health services of funding, the Coalition government is planning to spend well over $200 million on the annual talk shop dressed up as a 聯leaders聮 summit聰 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) scheduled for Sydney this September.
Mision Vuelvan Caras, literally 聯about-face聰, is a social project 聴 or mission 聴 launched by the revolutionary government of Venezuela in 2004 to train and offer employment to thousands of people. It is changing the lives of a large number of the country聮s citizens, many of whom previously had no formal education or jobs to rely on.
As the bulk carrier, Pilion, docked in Geelong on January 9 with phosphate from Western Sahara, the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) called on the fertiliser company Incitec Pivot to stop violating UN regulations by importing phosphate from Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa.
On December 5, after weeks of speculation, the commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama announced that he had overthrown the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in Fiji聮s third military coup in the past 20 years. On January 4, the military restored the powers of President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, so that he could swear in an interim government with Bainimarama as PM.
Pro-choice activists are angry that the federal government has subcontracted parts of its $51 million National Pregnancy Telephone Hotline contract to anti-abortion groups.
Several Bushmen families who had been evicted from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve returned on January 12 following an historic December 13 court victory against Botswana's government. The High Court ruling deemed the government's
聯Aboriginal people across Queensland and across Australia have lost all confidence in the capacity of the criminal justice system to address our needs聰, Sam Watson, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on Indigenous issues said about the latest explosion of Aboriginal rage, at the Cape York community of Aurukun. The flare-up was caused by rumours that an Aboriginal man had been assaulted while in police custody.
A national mobilisation for May Day 2007 is set to involve young people, workers, peace activists and others in solidarity with immigrant workers. The protest will say no to anti-immigration legislation, to the militarisation of the US border and to
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