On May 18, President Hugo Chavez sent condolences on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the death the previous day of revolutionary Uruguayan poet, novelist and playwright Mario Benedetti. The following is abridged from Chavez聮s letter.
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NEWCASTLE 聴 The NSW ALP and property developers are yet again pushing to cut the Newcastle train line, this time proposing rail services end at Wickham and be replaced by buses.
The most popular leader among the Arab population in the Middle East, the May 20 Christian Science Monitor said, isn鈥檛 even from the region: it is Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In a time of climate crisis, logic dictates we should be cutting carbon pollution and ending our reliance on burning coal for energy. Yet the opposite is happening in Australia.
聯This book is part of the red armband view of Australian history聰, Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen told an audience at Brisbane聮s Paddington Workers Club at the May 28 launch of his new book, Framework of Flesh: Builders聮 Labourers Battle for Health and Safety.
BRISBANE鈥 Unions at the University of Queensland (UQ) held a rally and barbeque on St Lucia campus on May 27 as part of their campaign for a new collective agreement.
Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the 鈥渟ocialist transformation of basic industry鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: 鈥淚 can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.鈥
The threat of climate change means that for the first time humanity is faced with the very real possibility of extinction. The root cause of the ecological crisis is capitalism鈥檚 drive to maximise immediate profits above all else.
Carbon footprints, melting icecaps and ecological disasters 鈥 the hot-button issue of the century is explored in a series of films that focus on sustainability at the Sydney Film Festival.
On its opening day, Israeli soldiers walked past piles of books for sale and commemorative PalFest鈥09 tote bags into the Palestine National Theatre in Jerusalem to tell the owner that the Palestine Festival of Literature was an event organised by the Palestinian Authority and therefore illegal.
Pakistan鈥檚 workers and peasants continue to be caught between the brutal military conflict waged between the Pakistani military, backed by the US, and the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban.
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