Following the announcement by Fidel Castro on February 19 that he would not stand in the election by Cuba鈥檚 National Assembly (AN) for the position of president, the Western media coverage has ranged from grudging acknowledgement of Cuba鈥檚 social gains in the face of 50 years of US aggression, to outrageous claims of 鈥渄ictatorship鈥 and US government plans for a 鈥渢ransition鈥 in Cuba.
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On February 29, 40 people attended a protest organised by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre over the continuation of laws related to the Northern Territory intervention. The demonstration was intended to send a message to federal Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin, who was at Hobart聮s Clarence TAFE campus. 聯End the intervention, human rights for all聰, participants chanted.
鈥淭urkish fighter jets, helicopters and hundreds of commandos streamed across the border into northern Iraq Wednesday despite Iraqi and American calls to swiftly end an operation to root out Kurdish insurgents鈥, Associated Press reported on February 27.
On February 28, thousands of members of State School Teachers Union of the Western Australia (SSTUWA) defied an order by the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) to attend stop-work meetings. The meetings were part of the union聮s campaign to win a new public schools enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
The Reuters news agency reported on February 22 that the 鈥淯N nuclear watchdog said on Friday it confronted Iran for the first time with Western intelligence reports showing work linked to making atomic bombs and that Tehran had failed to provide satisfactory answers鈥.
ADELAIDE 聴 The South Australian government is appealing an August 2007 court ruling that awarded Bruce Trevorrow, a member of the Stolen Generations, $525,000 compensation plus interest for the pain and suffering the state had caused him.
On February 25, 100 people attended a forum at the Redfern Community Centre called 聯After sorry 聴 where to for Aboriginal rights?聰.
Below is a statement from Solidarity Committee with Iranian Workers 鈥 Australia
聯I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!聰, said Sergeant Hans Schultz in the 1970s US sitcom Hogan聮s Heroes.
MELBOURNE 聴 Medical scientists and psychologists working in Victorian聮 s public hospitals who are members of the Health Services Union branch 4 voted on February 27 to take 48 hours of strike action as part of their enterprise bargaining agreement campaign. They will strike across all regional health divisions on March 5-6.
This article originally appeared in the February edition of Progressive Magazine. Since it was published, the 聯anonymous聰 US student in Bolivia on a Fulbright scholarship has gone public about being asked by the US Embassy in Bolivia to spy on Cuban and Venezuelan doctors, causing a major scandal.
It has been revealed that US Peace Corp participants (who volunteer overseas) were also asked by the embassy to provide information while in Bolivia. This breach of Bolivian law has caused major embarrassment to the US, whose ambassador was hauled in by the Bolivian government, which demanded an explanation.
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The Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (with a commentary by Leon Trotsky)
Resistance Marxist Library, 1998
74 pages, $8.50
Available at
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (with a commentary by Leon Trotsky)
Resistance Marxist Library, 1998
74 pages, $8.50
Available at
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