BRISBANE 鈥 On May3, 400 people rallied in King George Square to protest against the state funeral held in Kingaroy that day for former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Speakers included veteran left activists Brian Laver, Drew Hutton, Carole Ferrier
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Roberto Jorquera, Caracas
May Day 2005 will go down in Venezuelan history as an significant date in the developing revolution. Although there was no official estimate release, it is speculated that around 1 million workers marched through Caracas
The trial of alleged SIEV X people smuggler Khaleed Daoed is scheduled to commence in the Brisbane Supreme Court on May 17 and will run for at least three weeks. The boat dubbed the SIEV X sank in international waters off Indonesia on October 19,
On May 3, Brazil's government rejected a $40 million grant from the US to fight AIDS, explaining that its conditions were "too severe". The grant was conditional on Brazil's government taking a "moral" stand opposing, among other things,
Fred Fuentes
In the biggest march ever organised by the powerful Movement of Landless Workers (MST), around 13,000 peasants, accompanied by workers from occupied factories, indigenous peoples and others, set out from Goiania, Brazil, on May 2 to
Norm Dixon
Revelations of a covert rendezvous in Washington between top CIA officials and the head of Sudan's secret police have starkly exposed just how hollow and hypocritical are the US administration's expressions of concern for the plight of
Timor Sea
Dave Clarke (Write On, GLW #625) correctly observes that "Australia is cheating East Timor out of its share of the oil in the Timor Sea", but then he raises the clearly rhetorical question: "Could it be that the Australian government
Children of the Crocodile: The Australia-East Timor storyPassengers Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney9.30am-5pm Monday-Sunday until 2007Visit <http://www.anmm.gov.au>
Children of the Crocodile is
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Another man has lost his life while being held under the federal government's policy of detaining foreigners caught fishing in Australian waters.
Muhammed Heri was the captain of a fishing boat taken into custody by
ADELAIDE 鈥 Thirty-five people picketed ANZ on May 6 to highlight the bank's involvement in war profiteering in Iraq. The protesters vowed to return on the first Friday of every month to maintain pressure on ANZ and other Australian companies
Between 500 and 700 people, most of Chinese descent, met at 10am on May 4 at the Chinese cultural center in Vancouver to march to the Japanese consulate to protest cover-ups and revisionism in Japanese textbooks. Protesters also demanded that Japan
Jon Lamb
Six months after his election, the cracks are well and truly appearing in the promises and policies of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The half-hearted support of the Indonesian masses for his presidency is rapidly
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