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Rallies demand end to war

TEL AVIV — Thousands of Israelis rallied on July 22, demanding an end to Israel's war on Lebanon and calling for an immediate ceasefire. According to the Palestinian News Agency, protesters urged Israeli soldiers not to fight in Lebanon, chanting

BANGLADESH: Workers revolt against pay squeeze

Eva Cheng After suffering vicious cuts in real wages over the last decade, Bangladeshi garment workers' incomes have been further squeezed since January 2005 when the three-decade-old international Multi-Fibre Agreement expired, exposing textile

Cuban unionist: 'solidarity is oxygen for us'

Annolies Truman, Perth Cuban and Australian unionists pledged to step up mutual solidarity at a public meeting on July 15 with Gilda Chacon, head of the international section (Asia-Pacific Region) of the Cuban Federation of Workers. Chacon, who

On the box

Message Stick : Life And Death Of The Murray — Looks at the views the traditional owners who share the Murray River have on the health and the future of the river. ABC, Friday, July 28, 6pm. Israel's Generals: Ariel Sharon — Sharon's path is

VENEZUELA: Chavez outlines vision for public transport

Jim McIlroy& Coral Wynter, Caracas Opening the new Line 4 of the Caracas Metro system on July 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared a vision for a "new Caracas", with major developments in the rail, road and urban planning areas. Chavez was

SOUTH AFRICA: Tripartite Alliance reaping what it has sown

Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg The alliance is dead! Long live the alliance! That about sums up the politics of the organisational marriage between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of

Further set back for Coles workers

In the wake of the sacking of 1000 warehouse workers in Sydney and Melbourne by Coles, the company has further betrayed those sacked. After suggesting that positions would be available for those workers wanting to be redeployed, it announced on July

Pine Gap activists face seven years' jail

Kerry Smith Four peace activists who broke into the United States' Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs last year will stand trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court on October 3. The four, members of Christians Against All Terrorism, will

CUBA: Socialist government guarantees workers' rights

Gilda Chacon, head of the international section (Asia-Pacific Region) of the Cuban Federation of Workers (CTC) and a member of the Cuban parliament, is touring Australia at the invitation of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

ACEH: Government declares sixteen organisations 'illegal'

James Balowski, Jakarta Less than two weeks after the House of Representatives passed the Aceh governance bill — which the government says will pave the way for greater autonomy in Indonesia's northern-most province — on June 21, the Aceh

Queers fighting back

Rachel Evans Eighty countries still criminalise homosexuality. Beheading, torture, jai or rape await many queers fighting for their rights across the world. In one of the worst reported cases, Iran beheaded two young gay men in July 2005. Last

War on the homeless

Norm Barber, Adelaide "We get people housing", a bulky, 50ish woman tells me, her Street to Home identification card hidden inside her shirt. "Where are the houses?", I ask. She laughs. "We help people in other ways", she counters. When asked she