BY LANCE SELFA
CHICAGO — People all over Latin America must have let out a hearty laugh when they heard US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice lecture Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez about his post-coup need to "uphold constitutional
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BY NORM DIXON
Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is the “only leader in the world
to have used chemical weapons against his own people” — this has become
a mantra repeated by US President George Bush, British PM Tony Blair, Bush's
political
BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — It's every host's nightmare: US President George Bush refuses
to come if Cuban President Fidel Castro is there, and there will be the
usual pack of terrorists and hired assassins who try to murder Castro whenever
BY LISA MACDONALD
A strike of public sector workers, launched on April 15 in Quetta, Baluchistan, continues to paralyse life in the city.
Led by the militant Baluchistan Civil Secretariat Staff Association (BCSSA), the strike involves paramedics,
South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of TransitionBY HEIN MARAISJuta AcademicCape Town, 2001Ordering enquires at <education@juta.co.za> or visit <http://www.juta.co.za>
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BY CAMILO JORQUERA
GEELONG — Almost 1000 people, mainly members of the the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), gathered to commemorate May Day on May 1 for the first time
BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian
What are we to do with the refugeeswhen we have racists to appease?What we needed was a specific resolutionbut had to make do with the Pacific solution.Just across from the Long White Cloudin the land of the John White Howardlived a people who once
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — More than a month ago, I wrote about Venezuela [see GLW #485], pointing out that little had been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez and the threat to his reforming government from the usual
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — More than 10,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne on May Day, protesting against attacks on workers' and refugees' rights and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The protests' success was a step
BY NICK EVERETT
On May Day (May 1), the ABC's Sally Loane interviewed NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson. When asked about M1, he objected strongly to M1 activists "taking over" May Day, declaring it was a day for "workers' struggles" not a
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