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The VicTec apprentices committee has organised a rally on Victorian parliament steps to protest the increasing number of retrenchments of apprentices, to take place on March 19.
The article below following is abridged from the March editorial of Eslabon, a monthly bulletin produced by the Argentinean Union of Militants for Socialism (UMS). It has been translated by Federico Fuentes. A UMS founding member and leader, Luis Bilbao, will be a feature speaker at the World at a Crossroads conference held in Sydney from April 10-12. Visit for more information or to register.
The following statement was recently released by Climate Action Canberra in response to the government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Visit .
After 8000 km on the road with 100 vehicles and 500 volunteers, the passage of the Viva Palestina convoy into Gaza City brought out thousands of jubilant Palestinians to celebrate the latest breakthrough against Israeli oppression.
The killing of two British soldiers and a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer by Irish republicans opposed to the peace process have threatened to destabilise the political situation in the six counties in the north of Ireland still claimed by Britain.
This article is abridged from accounts by Farooq Tariq, a leader of the Labour Party Pakistan, posted at . An LPP representative will be attending the World at a Crossroads conference in Sydney, April 10-12. Visit .
The glory of being 聯the other聰. The pride and punishment of not being 聯like them 聟聰 Not being white, being Indian and being half cast 聟 That is the harsh but ultimately glorious destiny of the Bolivian.
The general strike in the French Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe, which began on January 20, ended March 4, when an accord was signed between the Collective Against Super-Exploitation (LKP) strike collective and the local governments, the employers鈥 federation and the French government.

More than 49 of the 133 Tamil civilians killed inside a "safe zone" by Sri Lankan Army shelling on March 10 were children and 16 of them were children below the age of three.

On March 3, the People聮s Liberation Army (PLA), which fought a 10-year war against the Nepalese monarchy, started recruiting new soldiers to fill vacancies.
On March 20, anti-war and international solidarity activists globally will mark the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the US-led 聯coalition of the willing聰.

鈥淲e鈥檝e got two goals in the G20", US President Barack Obama said of the approaching London summit of finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 of the world鈥檚 largest national economies plus the European Union. 鈥淭he first is to revive the capitalist system and the second is to agree on new regulations to save capitalism from itself.鈥