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Burma: New charges prove elections 'a sham'

On May 18, human rights activists rallied outside Australian foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith鈥檚 office in Perth to protest against the treatment of Burma鈥檚 democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

GLW Fighting Fund: Politicians grab pay rise

On May 14, the Senate upheld the parliamentary remuneration tribunal鈥檚 decision to raise electoral allowances for federal politicians by $90 a week ($4700 a year). The vote was 38 votes to 7.

Cuba: Anti-homophobia day celebrated

\The article below is compiled from Prensa Latina reports on May 16 and 17.

Queensland teachers strike for fair pay

Chants of 鈥淗ardest working, lowest paid: Bligh and Wilson, be ashamed!鈥 rang out from 4000 teachers at the gates of state parliament on May 19.

Tamil youth call for aid, homeland

When the United Nations describes the Sinhalese army聮s attacks on the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka as a 聯bloodbath on the beach聰 you know a massacre is going on.

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Fremantle Greens victory The ALP failed to ask them selves this question. Who were these Green voters? It was the first time many people from the ALP and Liberals voted Green. The excuse the ALP made [for the Greens victory] is that there was

Ceremony marks anniversary of Cuban hero's death

SYDNEY 聴 A May 19 ceremony at Ibero-American Square marked the 114th anniversary of the death of Cuban national hero Jose Marti.

Friends in the struggle for a better world

Friends in deed
By Heather Saville
Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Inc., 2009
337 pages, $24.95 plus postage (pb)

Fidel's declarations of resistance

The Declarations of Havana
By Fidel Castro, with an introduction by Tariq Ali
Verso, 2008
138 pages, $26.95 (pb)

Epic tale of love and tragedy

Samson and Delilah
Written and directed by Warwick Thornton
With Marissa Gibson and Rowan MacNamara
In cinemas