Stuart Munckton
"In what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has declared a victory for sovereignty, Spain proceeded with its sale of 12 aircraft and 8 patrol boats to the South American nation", reported Venezuelanalysis.com on November 28.
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Rachel Evans & Samuel Pala
Fabian Escalante joined the Cuban revolutionary movement in 1950 at the age of 15, when he became active in a socialist youth organisation. This extraordinary man was imprisoned a number of times before Cuba's 1959
Tim Gooden, Geelong
An important test case for the federal government's new industrial relations laws, which aim to destroy organised labour, has arisen involving all building unions on an isolated construction site in Victoria's west.
The
December 7, 1918: 100,000 textile workers strike in Lancashire, England.
December 17, 1918: Hundreds of trade unionists take over Darwin and chase the corrupt administrator John Anderson Gilruth out to sea.
December 21, 2003: Sydney high-school
Norm Dixon
The terrible devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in late August, which took the lives of at least 964 people, and the subsequent political crisis caused by the failure of US President George Bush's government to
Good Night, and Good LuckDirected and co-written by George ClooneyScreening nationally from 15 December 2005
REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH
Edward R. Murrow is the hero of the best and most politically prescient film scheduled for release this
On December 1, police crushed a World Aids Day march in Harare, arresting several of the organisers, including activists from the International Socialist Organisation and Women Aids Support Network. Hundreds of people joined the march, demanding
Julian Coppens, London
Four hundred people attended the second annual conference of the anti-war Respect coalition in London on November 19-20, including 350 delegates.
The conference followed a year of unprecedented successes. The left gained
Rachel Siewert
[On November 29, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert attempted to block the adoption of the Building and Construction Industry Improvement (BCII) Act (2005) regulations in the Senate. In her speech, abridged below, she related a grim
Thousands of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activists demonstrated in Lahore on December 6 against the imperialist onslaught of privatisation and the World Trade Organisation, on the eve of the WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong.
Trade union
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly #639 published a review of Alan Woods' The Venezuelan Revolution: A Marxist Perspective by Dave Raby. Below is another perspective on Woods' book written by John Riddell, originally published by Canada-based website Socialist
Rachel Evans, Merida
On November 29, three of Venezuela's leading opposition parties announced they would not participate in the December 4 National Assembly elections. Late on November 30, a fourth party announced that it, too, would pull out. The
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