Murray Smith, Paris
The movement of French students and workers against the right-wing French government's new First Employment Contract (CPE) law is entering a decisive phase. The law was approved by parliament on March 10, and allows employers to
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In France in May-June 1968, there was a potentially revolutionary situation.
For several months leading up to May, students had protested for better conditions. When the government used riot police to stop their protests, the students resisted
Rachel Evans
The March 16 edition of the gay and lesbian newspaper SX quoted from the Australian Federation of Aids Organisations (AFAO): "Since 2000 the rate of diagnoses of HIV in Australia have risen from 656 a year to 912 last financial year.
Liam Mitchell, Sydney
Around 150 people marched through inner-city Glebe on March 25 to protest against the Howard government's Work Choices legislation. The rally was organised by Inner West Your Rights at Work (IWYRaW).
Rally speakers included
On March 18, majority Labor governments were elected in both South Australia and Tasmania. Voters' refusal to give the Liberals government in those states undoubtedly reflected, at least in part, the huge public opposition to Howard and Co.'s current
Omar Hamed, Auckland
"Fuck 12 dollars, we want 20", rapped Unite union member and hip-hop MC Fyzykl to around 1000 students and workers in Myers Park on March 18. The occasion was the Supersizemypay.com concert — the Big Pay Out — which
Five bus drivers from the executive board of the Tehran bus drivers' union and metalworker Sattar Amini were released from jail on March 18 and 19. Yet the union's leader Mansoor Ossanlou, as well as auto worker Afshin Bahrami, are still being
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PORT MACQUARIE — On March 5, 60 people attended a screening of David Bradbury's new documentary Blowin' in the Wind, which focusses on the use by the US military of depleted uranium munitions. The DVD showing raised funds for Amnesty
Federico Fuentes
Even before the January 22 inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivia's first indigenous president, commentators from all sides of the political spectrum, particularly on the left internationally, have begun to speculate about what
Sarah Stephen
On March 23, the immigration department announced that 42 of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived in Australia on January 18 and have been held on Christmas Island since then, had been granted refugee status. They will be
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
Venezuelan right-wing parties Accion Democratica, Primero Justicia and Sumate are "up to their neck" in planning for a transport strike that will use as a pretext the increase in crimes that are affecting the
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