BY JIM McILROY& ROBYN MARSHALL
LIMA — Thousands of workers marched through the streets here, and in other Peruvian cities, on June 3 to protest against the declaration of a state of emergency by the government of President Alejandro Toledo, and
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In a dramatic new attack on abortion access, on June 4 the US House of Representatives passed a bill by 282 votes to 139, banning late-term abortions.
The bill criminalises the dilation and extraction method of abortion of a live fetus, used after
BY SHANE BENTLEY
Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members may have had a chance to read the April 2003 edition of the Sea and Waterfront Voice. The edition marks the 20th anniversary of the Maritime Unionist Socialist Activities Association
BY RAISA PAGES
HAVANA — Falling prices in the developing countries' exports of farm produce and the ruin of millions of farmers are the pernicious outcome of neoliberal policies, US professor Peter Rosset from the US Institute of Food and
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The TasDEC Global Learning Centre is looking at ways to continue functioning after a March review by its government funding agency threatened to cut $40,000 from TasDec's funding for next year.
TasDEC is the primary
COMMENT BY SOL SALBE
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly is partisan on the issue of Palestine and Israel. Like some others on the Jewish left, I regard this as redressing the balance of media coverage on this issue.
My own background as a child of two Holocaust
BY IGGY KIM
Four out of six high-profile political prisoners, held under Malaysia's draconian Internal Security Act, were released on June 1 after the government decided not to renew their ISA detention orders. The other two are awaiting the
BY PILAR AGUILERA
Aleida Guevara, Cuban-born daughter of renowned Argentine revolutionary socialist Ernesto Che Guevara, will speak at public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne in early July on the theme "Che Guevara, War and the Fight for Global
BY DYLAN FERGUSON
ADELAIDE — Semaphore Beach, one of Adelaide's most popular and least developed beaches, is threatened by a new experiment being implemented by the Coastal Protection Board.
The board intends to mine 164,000 cubic metres of
BY TIM STEWART& ALISON DELLIT In a disturbing escalation of government harassment of migrant communities, the homes of 10 Iranian-Australian families in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were raided by federal police on June 3. Claiming to be hunting
BY MURRAY SMITH
PARIS — Millions of French workers participated in a huge one-day general strike on June 3 in an attempt to defeat the government's attacks on pension rights. There were also massive street demonstrations across the country.
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) released a report on May 28 recommending that adoption by same-sex couples be legalised.
The report strongly argues that adoption should be an option for same-sex couples
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