BY FORREST HYLTON
LA PAZ, Oct. 13 — After the October 12 massacre in El Alto, an Aymara city of 800,000 on the upper edge of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, which left at least 25 dead and 100 injured, millions of Bolivians have concluded that
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BY JOHN PILGER
Australian novelist Richard Flanagan was recently asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to read a favourite piece of fiction on national radio and explain his reasons for the choice.
"I was unsure what fiction to
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — The Sydney Social Forum (SSF) will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney on October 24-26. It will feature three international keynote speakers: Ariel Guides from the Philippines Solidarity of Philippines Workers
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — The Action ticket has won the October 6-10 La Trobe University Student Representative Council (SRC) election in a landslide victory. The ticket consisted of independent activists, members of the socialist youth
These photographs of the October 20, 1966, protest against US President Lyndon Johnson were taken by Perry Brown, who is now a member of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance in Newcastle. He described the scene to
BY TRISH REIMERS
In January 2001, US President George Bush reinstated the "global gag" rule on international family planning assistance that the US administration of Ronald Reagan had announced at the UN-sponsored Second International Conference on
BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
PERTH — Western Australia has had more than its fair share of controversial coastal development issues over the last decade.
The national spotlight has mostly focused on a proposal to build a resort and marina at Maud's
BY LYNETTE DUMBLE
The 12-month prison sentence imposed on human rights activist Irene Fernandez, handed down on October 16 by magistrate Juliana Mohamed, was a shameful day for the justice system in Malaysia.
Charged with "maliciously publishing
AUSTIN — The US military is attempting to resurrect the influenza virus that killed up to 40 million people in 1918. Several genes of the extraordinarily lethal "Spanish flu" have been isolated and introduced into contemporary flu strains. The new
BY PIP HINMAN
Despite the federal government's attempts to restrict the protests against US President George Bush, organisers of the Canberra rally on October 23 are confident it will be huge. Buses from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and towns across
BY DUNCAN MEERDING& ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — A growing protest movement is targeting the forest practices of the Tasmanian Labor government, including woodchipping, clearfelling and the use of 1080 poison. A "walk for change" attracted up to 2000
Since the end of July, 24-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker Aladdin Sisalem has been the only prisoner in the Australian government's Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. He has very little human contact,
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