489

BY FEDERICO FUENTES The April 22 edition of Newsweek magazine reported that the plotters behind the failed April 12-14 coup in Venezuela had revealed their plan to the US embassy in Caracas less than two months earlier. A senior US state
BY PENNY DUGAN PARIS — On March 23, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR, French section of the Fourth International) deposited at the Constitutional Council the 500 "sponsorships" that will enable its candidate, Olivier Besancenot, to
BY LARRY DOUGLAS On April 8, Ray Krone, became the 100th person in the United States since 1973 to be released for a crime that put him on death row. Krone, 45, was convicted for the 1991 stabbing death of 36-year-old Arizona bartender, Kim
HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
BY ALISON DELLIT SYDNEY — Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of
BY URI AVNERY TEL AVIV — One hundred and five years ago, the day after the first Zionist congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the state of the Jews." Last week, Ariel Sharon should have noted in his diary: "In
Resistance activists summonsed MELBOURNE — Two members of the socialist youth group Resistance have been summonsed to appear in court in late May for "trespassing" while attempting to visit hunger-striking refugees at the Maribyrnong detention
BY RICARDO ALARCON [The following message was sent on April 5 by Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.] In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli
and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health On newsstands advertising the Melbourne Herald Sun on April 11, the banner headline declared a "Women's Health Alarm". This was a reference to the ruling by the Health Insurance
Drugs industry The current debate around the use of currently illicit drugs in the Northern Territory provides a perfect opportunity for government and the community to look at alternatives to the current approach of prohibition. Psychedelics,
Woomera reportback #1 PERTH — More than 100 students from three universities — Curtin, Murdoch and the University of Western Australia — heard reports from the Easter protest outside the Woomera refugee detention centre in outback South
BY EVA CHENG More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats of the