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Correction

GLW #488 incorrectly reported that at a Brisbane public forum on April 5, Fernando Duque, Oceania representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, had stimated that the illegal US 42-year trade embargo had cost Cuba "US$60

Thousands protest for Palestine

BY JESS MELVIN MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people marched for Palestine on April 20, in a protest mobilising much of the Palestinian community in Melbourne. "I am angry", Rarda Abdel Fatah, speaking on behalf of Young Palestinian Women, told the

NEW ZEALAND: Anderton splits from Alliance party

BY SUE BOLTON On April 3, New Zealand Alliance party leader and deputy prime minister Jim Anderton announced that he and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee would not stand under the Alliance banner in New Zealand's national elections, due in

Cuba is winning the 'battle of ideas'

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — “Human capital, the level of knowledge of our people, is the most important type of capital in Cuba.” Otto Rivero Torres, Cuba's minister for youth and the first secretary of the Union of Communist Youth,

Drug users 'surrender' to police

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — Four drug law reform advocates handed themselves into the Darwin Local Police Office on April 12 to raise awareness of the Northern Territory Labor government's proposed "drug house" legislation. The four activists,

Loose cannons

Immovable "The Palestinian leader is seen to be just as immovable as his Israeli opposite." — ABC correspondent Jill Colgan, 7.30 Report, April 15, after earlier noting that "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been held under siege by Israeli

'Free, free Palestine!'

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — Two thousand people, many of them carrying candles and Palestinian flags, marched through the city centre as part of an Asia-Pacific regional day of action for Palestine on April 19. Simultaneous protests were held in

PALESTINE: The reality of Israel's 'generous offer'

No Israeli defence of its war on the Palestinians would be complete without a reference to Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat's supposed rejection of "peace" at the July 2000 Camp David summit hosted by US President Bill Clinton. The story is

VENEZUELA: Uprising defeats US-backed coup

BY FEDERICO FUENTES

The simple slogan on a wall in Caracas explained it all: "Yankee, game over. You lost". Within the space of 48 hours, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was overthrown by a military coup, only to be swept back to power by an uprising of the Venezuelan people.