BRISBANE — The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of Iraq, leading US peace activist Phyllis Bennis told a public forum at the Avid Reader Bookshop on July 27. The forum was sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum
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Alex Bainbridge, Toronto
Two-hundred people, mainly academics and graduate students, participated in the first international anniversary conference of the California-based red-green journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism over the July 22-24
Sue Bolton
Kevin Quill, a member of the Electrical Trades Union and a Pilbara Mineworkers Union activist at Hamersley Iron, described what happened when individual contracts were introduced in the Pilbara in the early 1990s.
"Individual contracts
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Coalition Senator Nigel Scullion was given a cool reception at an "information session" he held in Alice Springs on July 26 in an attempt to sell the Coalition government's proposal to build a nuclear-waste dump near the town.
Max Lane
East Timor's local elections are now in their eighth month. In Aileu, close to Dili, the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) achieved second place after Fretilin, pushing the Democrat Party into third place. Overall, in the districts contested
To the chagrin of right-wing media pundits in Britain, Karl Marx has been voted "greatest ever philosopher" by listeners in a five-week online poll run by the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time. The July 21 Weekly Worker reported that the In Our Time
Sarah Stephen
If it's true that terrorists are driven by a hatred of Western "democracies" and liberal ideas, it's more than ironic that, in the wake of the London bombings, there is bipartisan agreement in Australia to step up security
Max Lane
"The mobilisations on July 23 when Arroyo gave her state of the nation address to Congress were the biggest since the anti-Arroyo actions began", Sonny Melencio told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by phone on July 27. Melencio is vice-chair of Bukluran
Students were brutally attacked and tear-gassed by police at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby on July 27, following a series of clashes over a new grading system at the university. A number of students sustained serious injuries
BRISBANE — "The trade union movement is facing the biggest challenge in its history" from the Coalition government's planned anti-union laws, environmentalist and former NSW Builders Labourers Federation secretary Jack Mundey said at the July 24
Duroyan Fertl, Havana
On July 26, the Cuban people celebrated the 52nd anniversary of the failed attack on Moncada Barracks, an attack led by a 26-year-old lawyer named Fidel Castro.
The 1953 attack was designed to inspire Cubans to rise up
Message Stick: 4-Wheel Dreaming — Documents a journey into the very heart of Australian Aboriginal culture. ABC, Friday, August 5, 6pm.
Hiroshima's Atom Bomb Dome — To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, this program
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