Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, chairperson of the Alola Foundation and wife of East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao, addressed a public meeting attended by 100 people at the Australia Institute for International Affairs in Canberra on August 2. This is an
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Simon Butler
It Can't Happen Here: A Political History of Student ActivismBy Graham HastingsEmpire Times Press, Adelaide, 2003$30 (pb)
On September 27, 1971, five student draft resisters who had refused to fight in the Vietnam War announced to
Sarah Stephen
On August 16, we finally got confirmation that PM John Howard deliberately lied when he claimed, days before the 2001 federal election, that there was proof that asylum seekers on the Olong threw their children overboard. The welcome
Norman Brewer, Bremen
The number of people taking part in the weekly Montagsdemonstrationen (Monday demonstrations) across Germany has been tripling from week to week. On August 16, more than 100,000 people marched in more than 100 cities,
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is an "unprecedented revolution in participatory democracy", Leonel Vivas, Venezuelan ambassador to Australia, told an audience of around 70 people on August 7.
When Hugo Chavez was
The postal division of the Victorian communications union has been under left-wing leadership since a sweeping victory for the members Reform ticket in July 2003. The division's secretary, Joan Doyle, discussed the state of her union's struggle at a
Socialist Alliance member Alex Bainbridge and environmental activist Jimi Cocking outside the Launceston Magistrate's Court on August 17, after police dropped charges against them. The two activists had been arrested protesting against PM John
Raul Bassi & Federico Fuentes
On June 29, under the headline "US concerned by piqueteros advance", Argentina's main daily newspaper, Clarin, quoted an anonymous "high level source from the US state department" voicing "concern" over the
Roberto Jorquera
Thousands of Venezuelans gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace on August 16 to hear radical left-wing President Hugo Chavez claim victory soon after the National Electoral College (CNE) released the results of a
On August 7, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced that he would be joining the African National Congress and encouraged other NNP members to do likewise. Although the NNP will still exist — the ANC allowing dual membership
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
"The Democratic Party's campaign of dirty tricks to keep [independent left candidates] Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo off the presidential ballot constitutes the most serious threat to voting rights in the US since the
Chris Latham, Perth
On August 17, 40 police broke up the six-week-old Forest Rescuers' protest camp in the Ludlow Forest near Busselton in south-west Western Australia, evicting 70 protesters.
The move against the camp followed the granting of
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