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CUBA: Castro rejects US claims of Iran nukes

Speaking to a meeting at the Havana University on November 17, Cuban President Fidel Castro rejected allegations of Cuban involvement with Iran in the alleged manufacturing of nuclear and biological weapons. He said Cuba is not interested in

VENEZUELA: In the trenches of the media war

Federico Fuentes Opening a newspaper or turning on the TV, it is not hard to understand why many Venezuelans talk about the ongoing "media war" in their country. If you believed everything the media said you would think the Venezuelan president was

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Sedition It's all about choice, the multi-million dollar advertising tells us. Bargain with your employer, he will give you an interview and listen sympathetically to your pleas. You and the other several hundred of your comrades individually. He

It's a witch-hunt

Sarah Stephen Following the November 8 arrest of 18 men accused of "conspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act", the media campaign against them has escalated to a witch-hunt. Fairfax columnist Peter Hartcher declared in the

ZIMBABWE: Army mobilised against demonstrators

Bernie Stephens, Harare Army troops were used to retain control of streets of central Harare after demonstrators mobilised in support of a Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) day of action against poverty on November 8. Police were taken off

800 attend civil liberties rally

Kamala Emanuel, Hobart "No police state" and "No to Howard's terror laws" were the mobilising slogans of a civil liberties rally held on November 12 and attended by 800 people. Organised by the Tasmanian Council of Civil Liberties, the rally was

Terror laws: an everyday nightmare

Amendment to TerrorWritten by Kevin SummersDirected by Bec RussellStarring Fabienne Parr, Nigel Johnston, Matthew Molony, Felicity Soper & Christopher ElliottLa Mama, Carlton Courthouse, MelbourneWednesday-Saturday, November 30-December 17Email

'Howard's gone over the top'

My first demonstration was an anti-Vietnam war march, but this one [on November 15] was the biggest I've ever seen. It wasn't just a union rally, it was a community rally. It reminded me of the 1970s before [former Labor Prime Minister Gough] Whitlam

Havana

city of the long weary revolutioncity with much bread and no brickscity of dancing torsos and all night communistsof police who read and kiss on dutya place where children form conga linesin liberated palaceswhere millions chanted dancedalong the

Ruddock's dishonest defence of 'new' sedition laws

Doug Lorimer In an opinion piece in the November 14 Sydney Morning Herald, federal Attorney General Philip Ruddock made an attempt to defend his government's new sedition laws. These have been included as a series of proposed amendments to the

'More industrial pressure needed'

"The mood was excellent, and there's a much greater understanding out there about the issues than some people think. We need to put more industrial pressure on, have more demonstrations like this one, ongoing action to hit the bosses and the members

West Papua poll was sham, says Dutch study

Doug Lorimer The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to follow the Dutch government's example and commission a study into Australia's involvement in the 1969 UN-organised "act of free choice" in West