BY STUART MUNCKTON
Right-wing opponents of elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have gone on a new offensive aimed at destabilising the country and bringing Chavez down. In recent weeks there has been a general strike supported by national and
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BY KARL MILLER
MELBOURNE — On November 2, the Socialist Alliance held a very successful dinner. Around 110 people filled the Flemington Community Centre to celebrate achieving electoral registration in Victoria.
Every party that was affiliated
A peace protester in Rochester, New York, USA, was arrested in September for playing a song called "Hey, Hey, USA: How Many Children Have You Killed Today?" at high volume outside a military recruitment office. He was fined for "disturbing the
Fatima is a widow and grandmother who has been in Australia for 10 years, living with her family who are financially supporting her. She has no remaining close family in East Timor and has grown very close to her grandchildren here.
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — "Victorian economy surges past NSW" announced the November 14 Age. Heralding the growth of the Victorian economy, the article praised the state government. Photos of a serious looking Premier Steve Bracks and
BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke to STEPHEN HOPPER, a solicitor who has been representing a number of the Indonesian-Australian families who were raided by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and ASIO at the end of October.
MAPUTO — The structural adjustment program under way in Mozambique since 1987, with its privatisation of well over a thousand formerly state-run companies, has led to 120,000 workers losing their jobs, according to the country's largest trade union
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — The Queensland branch of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia has urged nurses to strike in opposition to a $15 million contract for the manufacture of up to 18,000 nurse uniforms over five
Peace danger looms
"The risk in the strategy [of allowing UN inspectors to return to Iraq], [US] officials note, is that the inspectors may visit those sites and discover nothing", — New York Times, November 14.
Washington, London and Canberra
BY JIM GREEN
A US-led attack on Iraq is likely to result in between 48,000 and 260,000 deaths during the first three months of combat. Post-war health effects could result in a further 200,000 deaths, according to a report by the International
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — On October 28, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) issued an environmental impact assessment supporting a proposed marina resort development at Mauds Landing on the Ningaloo Reef.
An ongoing campaign has
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
& LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Anti-corporate globalisation and anti-war protesters won
a significant victory on November 13-15, when they successfully defied
a NSW government ban on protest marches during the
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