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Television with social conscience

Art Resistance TV, edition 14Produced by Art ResistanceSingle DVD $25, or by subscriptionemail <artres@aussieisp.net.au> REVIEW BY JILL HICKSON The latest DVD release from Art Resistance contains four programs. The first features

BOLIVIA: Tensions mount as vote nears

Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz Only a few days out from the July 2 constituent assembly elections and referendum on regional autonomy, the focus of Bolivia's electoral campaign was not any of the candidates — most of them practically unknown to voters

VENEZUELA: Peasants march against paramilitaries

Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas The June 20 Diario Vea reported that more than 4000 campesinos (peasants) marched in the town of Guasdualito, in Apure state, near the border with Colombia. The protesters alleged that right-wing paramilitaries

Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's 250,000 Fighting Fund 2006: Putting a face to the war on children

Peter Boyle Occasionally the innocent casualties of war are given a human face. And it is shocking — sometimes so shocking it can help stop a war. Last week, in a blogsite (no longer online) by a Cuban doctor serving in East Timor, there was a

Memoir of a life well lived

REVIEW BY TOM CRUMPACKER Fightback: A Collection of Socialist EssaysBy Sylvia WeinsteinSocialist Viewpoint Publishing, 2003358 pages, US$ 25.00 (pb)Order from 1380 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110Send cheque for US$25.00 + 5.95, shipping and

Iraq: Australian troops must leave

Pip Hinman As Japan's troops prepare to leave Iraq, PM John Howard has announced that Australian troops will stay, despite the majority of Iraqis not wanting them there. However, the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) shooting of the trade minister's

IRAQ: Leak debunks White House propaganda

Doug Lorimer The Washington Post reported on June 18 that it had obtained a copy of a cable sent to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from the US embassy in Baghdad that paints "a starkly different portrait" from the White House's public

Howard's attacks demand solidarity

James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne Union Solidarity, a community-based organisation with 10 local groups across Melbourne, aims to support workers in struggle. Dave Kerin, the initiator and coordinator of the Melbourne central group, told Â鶹´«Ã½

Loose Cannons

Soccer capitalism "The beautiful game is a pointless pursuit except that it provides a big stimulus for consumer spending in rich countries. One billion people will probably watch the [FIFA World Cup] final and the event itself will earn some $2.8

We can strike Work Choices out

Sue Bolton Spotlight became a lightning rod for mass discontent with the Howard government's anti-worker laws when one of its Coffs Habour employees, Annette Harris, went public about the pressure put on her to sign an individual contract. If

VENEZUELA: How workers sacked their bosses

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas During its April-May tour of Venezuela, an Australian trade union brigade organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network visited the Invepal paper plant at Moron, west of Caracas. After the owners

'Operational reasons': the new excuse for sackings

Chris Latham Less than a week after Work Choices came into effect on March 27, the Cowra Abattoir in NSW hit the headlines when it announced plans to sack 29 workers and re-hire 20 on worse conditions and with a $200 pay cut. PM John Howard