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More than 2,000 civilians were slaughtered by Sri Lankan Army shelling on the night of May 9,
More than 50 people crowded into the Melbourne Resistance Centre to take part in a lively May Day toast hosted by the Socialist Alliance on May 3.
Domestic violence support centres in Alice Springs are in desperate need of funds to meet demand.
The article below is abridged from a May 7 Inter-Press Service report.
鈥淭he country is not going to sink. Despite the world economic crisis, we will keep advancing in social and human development鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, inaugurating a new pharmaceutical plant at Las Adjuntas, Caracas, on May 3. He was speaking on his weekly TV program Alo Presidente.
When it comes to reporting on the situation for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, with no reporters on the ground to witness the Sri Lankan Army鈥檚 carnage, newspapers like the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald suddenly discover 鈥渞eliable information鈥 on what the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are up to!
Scuffles broke out in Parramatta mall on May 5 as police and Lord Mayor Tony Issa forcibly shut down a Tamil hunger strike protesting the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 genocide of the Tamil people.
鈥淲e ask the Afghan government to force the American forces to leave Afghanistan. They kill more civilians than Taliban鈥, an angry Haji Nangyalai told AFP on May 7 at a demonstration outside government offices in the western town of Farah.
The statement below was released by the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran. For more information, contact info@workers-iran.org or alliance@workers-iran.org. Visit the site of Solidarity Committee with Iranian Workers-Australia, at
The article below is abridged from a May 6 report.
The following motion was passed by Students for Palestine (University of Western Sydney) on May 6.
Motorola, Caterpillar, Veolia, the Tesco supermarket chain, and other companies across the world that do business with Israel are suffering losses due to a global boycott in support of Palestinian rights.