According to a report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, announced on September 7, Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America — 5.6 deaths per thousand in 2004 — putting it on a par with developed countries. The
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Sarah Stephen
The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining on Nauru. Villawood detention
Eva Cheng, Hanoi
Around 100 solidarity and left-wing activists travelled here from some 40 countries on August 31-September 2 to join the 82 million Vietnamese people in celebrating their 60 years of hard-won independence.
Throughout several days
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has abandoned its plan to mount a legal challenge to the banning of four of its parliamentarians (MSPs) from the Scottish Parliament for the month of September.
Colin Fox, Frances Curran, Carolyn
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Sydney's Kinetic Energy Theatre Company is celebrating its 30th birthday by
Tim O'Connor
On September 15, 1975, the Australian flag was lowered for the last time in Papua New Guinea. It was a momentous occasion and an historic day for PNG, but 30 years on the shadow of Australia still has a large bearing on life in that
Sarah Stephen
On April 22, Fijian-born Sereana Naikelekele was released from Villawood detention centre, where she had spent almost three years. She was granted a bridging visa E (BVE).
Naikelekele spent four months struggling to survive with her
Jim Dowling
On September 1, I was introduced to the pre-emptive strike Brisbane-style.
Admittedly, it was mild compared to the more than 100,000 dead and many more living in terror and poverty in Iraq. Still, such thoughts were far from my mind
Roger Annis, Vancouver
Eighteen months after an imperialist invasion that served the overthrow of the elected government of Haiti, a ferocious repression continues to rain down on the people of that country. The three invading countries — the US,
Defend democratic rights!
In the last month it has become clearer than ever that the so-called war on terror is being used as a pretext to destroy civil liberties and democratic rights in Australia.
The "national security" and "anti-terror" laws
Socialist feminist Linda Averill, a bus driver and a union activist, is campaigning as a Freedom Socialist Party candidate for the September 20 Seattle City Council election. She is backed by her union, Amalgamated Transit Local 587, as well as other
Stuart Munckton
The Venezuelan government seized a Heinz Baked Beans processing plant that was left idle by the company, just days after a similar seizure of an idle maize processing plant owned by Alimentos Polar, the largest food company in
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