April 13
1949: 10,000 people attend the Australian Peace Congress in Melbourne.
April 14
1930: More than 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers are arrested in California, USA, for union activity.
April 15
1944: Fred Paterson becomes
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Rose Gentle, the mother of Gordon Gentle who was killed in Iraq last year, announced on April 5 that she would stand against minister for armed forces Adam Ingram in the May 5 British general election. The Scottish Socialist Party immediately
The article in GLW issue #621 entitled "UNSW Guild staff strike over redundancy pay" stated that the previous year's guild executive officer had agreed verbally to the NTEU's demands. It was the staff management committee negotiating team that agreed
America's Military Today: The Challenge of MilitarismBy Tod EnsignNew Press, 2004430 pages, $37
Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War ZoneBy Michael MooreSimon and Schuster, 2004218 pages, $25
REVIEW BY ERIC RUDER
Since September
I saw the pricks pricking balloonsI saw them seizing kitesthey were protecting ignorance for the sake of all uptights.They all wore coppers' uniformsthey all had coppers' minds,barely a brain cell between them,these are John Howard's times.When
The Cuban embassy in Bolivia announced on April 4 that Cuba would award 100 university scholarships to poor Bolivian young people. The bulletin explained that the program was part of Cuba's policy of international solidarity and collaboration. There
Jim Green
Have the nuclear industry and its supporters suddenly gained an environmental consciousness? While they're not planning to close their dangerous, polluting reactors nor begin dealing responsibly with their legacy of toxic radioactive
Alex Bainbridge
Socialist Alliance member Kamala Emanuel was labelled one of Tasmania's "top ten protesters" by the March 29 Mercury, alongside the likes of Greens Senator Bob Brown, gay rights activist Rodney Croome and Gardening Australia
Resistance: A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance Volume 1: 1965-72By John PercyResistance Books, Sydney 2005338 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
This is an important and timely book, given the transitional period the
On April 2, hundreds of people across Britain joined protests organised by asylum seekers facing deportation from that country. Actions were held in Glasgow, London, Nottingham, Oxford, Canterbury and Manchester, where more than 700 marched. Three
Farida Iqbal, Wollongong
On April 4, queer rights activist Annaliese Constable appeared in court under the charge of trespass. Constable led the 2004 campaign at Wollongong University for a safe queer space.
The existing campus queer space was a
On April 6, members of the People's Democratic Party in Jakarta protested against Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, demanding his government be replaced. Yudhoyono has begun increasing the price of fuel, which is already causing price
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