Roberto Jorquera
Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on June 4 that opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had managed to collect enough valid signatures to demand a recall referendum for the presidency.
Martin Sanchez
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Lynda Smith
In their second week at sea, from the South Bellona Reef 500 miles north-west of Brisbane, the seven-person crew of the Flotillas of Hope expressed their ongoing gratitude to all who continue to support them and their desire to be
Dale Mills, Sydney
"This whole thing is about bashing Muslims for votes. Bash a Muslim, buy a vote." This was Sydney solicitor Chris Murphy's response to politicians and media commentators' outrage at the release on bail of his client, Bilal
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Up to 1000 asylum seekers remain behind bars in Australia's immigration detention centres, including 168 children. The majority are from war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq - places the Australian government
Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories by young writers aged 11-20 yearsEdited by Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva SallisWakefield Press, 2004$19.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Dark Dreams is a fascinating anthology of essays, interviews
Alex Tighe
Too bad if you happen to be employed in a small business that decides to cut costs by making you redundant. Even worse luck if you have worked there for several years. The Coalition government has displayed its aggressive anti-worker
Dale McKinley
On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,
Ron Guy
A wall can take many forms. It can be the 2400 kilometres of earth — and estimated three million landmines — that separate the Western Saharan people from their homeland. Or it can be a wall of silence.
Recently, I joined a delegation
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
The ACT Labor government, with the support of the Liberal MLAs, rammed a bill through the ACT Legislative Assembly on May 25 to make the Gungahlin Drive extension immune from planning and environmental legislation. The
Alison Dellit
Colombian oil workers have returned to work after a victorious 37-day strike against the privatisation of the state-run oil company Ecopetrol.
Colombia's government has been progressively privatising Ecopetrol through a restructure
Steps for the Future: A Miner's Tale — From seven different countries in southern Africa comes this unique collection of films which deal with the ever-present danger and tragedy of HIV/AIDS. SBS, Tuesday, June 15, 1.25am.
Cutting Edge: The
John Pilger
Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain's most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked on May 14 because he ran the only English-language popular paper to expose the "war on terror" as a fraud and the invasion of
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