On February 4, 2000, agricultural labourers in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu turned what had been planned as a rally into a militant, hours-long blockade. The state assembly had shut down aid relief in the area 40 days after the Boxing Day
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MELBOURNE — On February 21, the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) stated that the federal government is likely to cut funding by 10% to Supported Accommodation Assistance Programs (SAAP).
Both federal and state governments are currently
Stuart Munckton
Speaking on his television program, Hello President on February 27, Venezuela's popular pro-poor president, Hugo Chavez, explained: "I am convinced, at this stage of my life — I am now 50 years old — after six years as a
James Balowski, Jakarta
Washington announced on February 26 that Indonesian participation in the US International Military Education and Training (IMET) program would restart immediately.
State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher said US
Pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was elected president of Tahiti on March 3, with the support of 29 of the 57 members of the semi-autonomous parliament that governs France's "overseas territory". Until last year, Tahiti had been governed for 20
Nicole Hilder, Melbourne
A popular 15-year-old year student at Thornbury Darebin Secondary College, Nak Assavatheptavee, was forcibly deported by immigration officials to Thailand on February 25.
Assavatheptavee has lived in Australia for the
On February 5, the English Socialist Alliance was wound up as a national organisation at a conference called for that purpose. The alliance, which drew to its banner all the main English far-left organisations, had been a viable left unity project
Stuart Munckton
According to a February 22 article by Venezuela Analysis commentator Jonah Gindin, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on February 20 that the recently expropriated paper company, now known as the Venezuelan Endogenous Paper
A February study carried out by researchers from Glamorgan and Cardiff universities has concluded that a third of child asylum seekers in Wales experience racial abuse. Released by charity Save the Children on February 24, the researchers' report
Sarah Stephen
A year ago, few people had heard of Peter Qasim. Now he's rapidly becoming a household name, a symbol of the Australian government's harsh and punitive policy of mandatory and indefinite detention of asylum seekers. In the first week
Brayden joined the US army not thinking he'd ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn't entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004.
Five anti-war activists were arrested on March 2, after they forced their way into the Irish embassy to protest the use of Ireland's Shannon Airport to refuel US war planes on their way to Iraq. The activists were members of the Irish group Pit-Stop
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