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BRAZIL: Indigenous leader shot

On June 29, a heavily armed gunmen on the Brazil-Paraguay border attacked a group of Guarani Indians, hours after the Guarani, part of the Sombrerito community, had moved back onto land they had been forcibly evicted from 30 years ago by a cattle

A woman's place is in the struggle - Single mothers fight back

The federal Coalition government is attacking single-parent families from several directions at once. Welfare "reforms" will force single mothers to find paid work, despite their child-raising responsibilities. The proposed changes to family law will

Solidarity brigade farewelled

MELBOURNE — Sixty people gathered at Comrades Bar on July 1 to farewell participants in a soldiarity brigade to Venezuela. The even was jointly organised by Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity

This week in history

July 6 1971: Demonstrators disrupt a Springbok rugby match in Australia with smoke bombs. July 9 1999: Police storm a Tehran University hostel in Iran, sparking days of student protests. July 10 1917: Emma Goldman is jailed for two years

Record attendance at NSW union protest meetings

Susan Price, Sydney Billed as Australia's biggest meeting of workers, the July 1 Unions NSW Sky Channel-linked protest meetings against PM John Howard's attacks on unions and workers — held simultaneously at 219 venues across NSW — outstripped

BRITAIN: Saved at the last minute

On June 30, after five days without water and 11 without food, Iranian Seyed agreed to end his hunger strike because the local Social Services department agreed to give him emergency housing, money for food, and legal assistance to appeal the

Opposition to "welfare-to-poverty" agenda

Matthew Davis, Perth In response to the federal Coalition government's unfair changes to the disability support pension, peak body Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) has initiated Campaign Enable. The campaign will target 16

200,000 protest in Edinburgh

Alison Dellit In the largest protest in Scotland's history, more than 200,000 people, most wearing white, joined the July 2 Make Poverty History march through Edinburgh, ahead of the July 6-9 G8 summit. "Life doesn't have to be this way",

'One thing to have laws, another to enforce them.'

Pip Hinman According to Marcus Clayton, an industrial lawyer and labour activist, the government's new workplace relations bills are designed to "provide the legal framework for bosses to slash wages and conditions, smash collective organisation,

LEBANON: Left leader assassinated

Waving red hammer-and-sickle flags and banners of Lebanon's Communist Party (LCP), thousands of people marched through Beirut on June 24 behind the hearse carrying the body of assassinated LCP leader George Hawi. Hawi led the LCP during Lebanon's

G8 will not ease Third World poverty

John Pilger LONDON — The front page of the June 12 Observer announced, "$55bn Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'". The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first

Sex-work bill unlikely to pass

Ema C, Hobart Working as a prostitute is not illegal in Tasmania, but it is illegal to "live off the earnings of a prostitute". The Tasmanian Sex Industry Regulation Bill, introduced into Tasmanian parliament on June 7, would have allowed for legal