Oliver Ressler, an Austrian artist and co-director (with Dario Azzellini) of Five Factories 聴 Worker Control in Venezuela, hosted special screenings of his film in Melbourne and Sydney. Ressler聮s presentations were part of the 聯If You See Something, Say Something聰 exhibition and were sponsored by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), LASNET and the Melbourne Bolivarian Circle.
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The Socialist Alliance will launch its campaign for the NSW election with a rally and concert on February 24.
David Hicks聮s demonisation, and continued incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, helps the US and Australian governments聮 promotion of its endless 聯war on terror聰. The Australian government is keen for the US to prosecute Hicks rather than have him return home because he has done no wrong under Australian law.
Mulrunji Doomadgee
I am pleased to see that justice will finally be delivered in regards to the death in custody on Palm Island. This is one victory among many for all those who have been fighting for justice ever since the tragic death of
Petrodollar Warfare
By William Clark
New Society Publishers, 2005
$29.95 267pages
By William Clark
New Society Publishers, 2005
$29.95 267pages
In her 2001 book, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Victoria, senior lecturer in criminology at Monash University Associate Professor Jude McCulloch reports 44 victims of police shootings in Victoria since the 1980s, mostly poor people from non-Anglo backgrounds, but also police themselves. That number is now more than 50.
When former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib announced last week that he would contest the March 24 NSW state election, the corporate media in Sydney cranked up a campaign of vilification against him. Habib was held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay for more than three years before being released in January 2005 without charge.
Walter Chavez, an adviser to Bolivian president Evo Morales, has found himself in the centre of a well-orchestrated corporate media campaign aimed at delegitimising the Morales government internationally by linking it to 聯terrorist聰 groups. This accusation comes only a week after attempts by the Spanish media to link Morales聮s party 聴 the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) 聴 with the Basque separatist group ETA.
鈥淏rilliant, fantastic, inspiring 鈥 Never shaken so many hands in one day鈥, commented Pat Rogers, a Brisbane staff member of the Electrical Trades Union, after experiencing the May Day march of more than 1 million workers in Caracas during the Australian trade union solidarity brigade to Venezuela in April-May last year. People in Australia will have the opportunity to join a May Day brigade to Venezuela again this year, from April 30 to May 9, organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN).
Nobody can quite believe their eyes and ears. More than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has made it abundantly clear that his country is embarked on a socialist revolution.
The announcement on January 30 that Australia鈥檚 first nuclear reactor was to be decommissioned sounded good. But residents and activists hoping for an end to the nuclear industry will be disappointed to hear that this is not the end of Australia鈥檚 nuclear experimentation. The old HIFAR reactor, Australia鈥檚 only multi-purpose research reactor, has been superseded by another reactor in the same suburb of Lucas Heights.
One of the best-known and most successful aspects of Venezuela聮s Bolivarian revolution has been the 聯social missions聰 聴 social programs funded by Venezuela聮s oil wealth aiming to solve the most pressing problems of the nation聮s poor majority. One of the best known and most successful social missions was one of the first to be established, the health program Mision Bario Adentro (聯Into the Neighbourghood聰). Established in April 2003, the mission has brought free quality health care via the establishment of popular health clinics in poor neighbourhoods across Venezuela. Before Barrio Adentro, health care was out of reach for many of the poor, as private health care was too expensive and the public health system was in a state of disrepair.
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