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BY FEDERICO FUENTES BUENOS AIRES — Two separate delegations travelled to the northern province of Tucuman, one of the poorest provinces in Argentina, in January. Each represented the deep gulf that divides Argentinian society and politics.
BY FEDERICO FUENTES PORTO ALEGRE — This city is buzzing as more and more people arrive each day for the third annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF), being held here January 23-28. Once again, tens of thousands of global justice
BY ROHAN PEARCE The wave of global anti-war protests on January 18 was a massive show of opposition by the world's working people — in particular those in the United States — to a US war on Iraq. The protests also signal that the US
BY RAY FULCHER Centrelink and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are back in negotiations over a new "development agreement" after a rejection by 72% Centrelink staff of management's attempt to get an unpopular pay and conditions
BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — On January 22, more than 300 journalists and other observers crammed into a room in the Struggle Museum to hear representatives of several political and social movement organisations announce the formation of a new
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan women have joined in protest marches and actions defending their government. The opposition, a US-backed wealthy elite, has locked out workers from their factories, called for a new presidential election and
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF Only a year after the worst bushfires in Australia's written history, another round of horrific bushfires is sweeping through south-eastern Australia. In Canberra, four people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 530 houses
BY MICHAEL BULL MELBOURNE — For the second time, unions and the community will rally in support of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state secretary Martin Kingham, who is facing contempt charges against the Royal Commission into
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that they will be
BY PIP HINMAN US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity
Dispute at stadium BRISBANE — Completion of the $350 million Lang Park stadium redevelopment in time for the Brisbane vs Newcastle rugby league blockbuster in late May is in doubt because of a looming industrial dispute. Developers involved in
BY MADHAVEE INAMDAR The United States decided to use the 9/11 tragedy to reorganise the world. It has military bases on every continent. The largest of these is situated in one of the tiniest states: Qatar in the Persian Gulf. There are 189 member