Police clashed with protesters in a May Day demonstration in the Chinese territory of Macau. Around 2000 protesters demonstrated against state corruption and lack of jobs for local workers, which they blame on the use of foreign labour. They were
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BRISBANE Around 50 people picketed the Sofitel Hotel on April 23 to protest a visit by Prime Minister John Howard. Howard was delivering a speech to a hand-picked audience at a $132-a-head luncheon. The protest was organised called for the repeal of
Tayad is the Association of Solidarity with the Families of Prisoners and is part of the Front for Rights and Liberties (HOC) in Turkey. Both organisations were instrumental in supporting Turkish 鈥渄eath fasters鈥, who recently had a significant victory against the abusive regime. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Rachel Evans spoke to Mesut Eroksuz, an Australian representative of Tayad.
Tayad is the Association of Solidarity with the Families of Prisoners and is part of the Front for Rights and Liberties (HOC) in Turkey. Both organisations were instrumental in supporting Turkish 聯death fasters聰, who recently had a significant victory against the abusive regime. 91自拍论坛 Weekly聮蝉 Rachel Evans spoke to Mesut Eroksuz, an Australian representative of Tayad.
The result for Jose Bove in the April 22 first round of France聮蝉 presidential election in the 聯overseas territory聰 (the polite term for colony) of New Caledonia, known as Kanaky to its indigenous inhabitants, was interesting. Bove came in fourth with 5.88%. But in the predominantly Kanak provinces of the North and the Loyalty Islands, his scores were respectively 10.89% and 14.55%. The main reason was the active support given to Bove, who has frequently visited the territory, by the Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers (USTKE).
The first striking thing about the initial round of the French presidential election, held on April 22, was the extraordinarily high turnout 聴 nearly 85%. You have to go back to the 1965 election to find a slightly higher figure. This was a sign of the increasing politicisation of French society in recent years, as was the fact that more than 3 million new electors registered to vote.
Following the April 23 death of Boris Yeltsin, various polling organisations conducted surveys on how Russians regarded his actions. Asked what they saw as Yeltsin鈥檚 main achievement, 33% of respondents answered: 鈥淗e left office voluntarily in December 1999.鈥 All his other achievements were within the statistical margin of error. The majority of those surveyed did not consider that Russia鈥檚 first president had any achievements at all.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers, mostly from Latin America, protested for their rights on May Day in cities and towns across the United States. For the second year in a row, the immigrant rights movement chose May 1, International Workers聮 Day, to raise their demands.
More than 1500 activists from the Middle East and around the world met in Cairo from March 29 to April 1 under the banner, 聯Towards an International Alliance against Imperialism and Zionism聰. The conference 聴 the fifth held in Cairo since 2002 by the International Campaign against US and Zionist Occupation 聴 brought together Islamic, nationalist and socialist forces from the region, together with delegates from anti-war coalitions in Canada, Korea, Venezuela and Europe.
In the latest move against the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion in the US, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 on April 18 to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The act was signed into law by US President George Bush in November 2003.
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