The following comments were given by Desiree Santos Amaral, first vice-president of Venezuela's National Assembly, to Â鶹ӳ» Weekly. Come to Venezuela, all of you in Australia. Come and see whatever you want to, and go back to tell the stories
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MELBOURNE — Fifty people attended a "Noise for Darfur" rally on September 18 to call for an end to the war in Sudan. Since 2003, thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced by the fighting. The rally was organised by the
Doug Lorimer In a September 18 national radio address — six days after ordering the expulsion of Australian high commissioner Patrick Cole — Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare accused Canberra of using aid and the presence of Australian troops
Farida Iqbal, Sydney On September 23, activists from Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) and the NSW Queer Students Network visited lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex refugees in Villawood detention centre. The LGBTI movement
Stuart Munckton Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez once again sent waves of shock through the US elite, and the corporate media, by using his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 not for diplomatic niceties but
Stuart Munckton In an exclusive interview with the September 10 Spanish-language daily Diario Panorama, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez spoke about the challenges facing the Bolivarian revolution — as the process of social
Doug Lorimer "We need to change the way we run the oil sector in Iraq. We need to engage with the major oil companies who will bring in investment as well as technology", Barham Saleh, deputy PM in Washington's puppet Iraqi government, told
Only days after handing over his irrevocable resignation as hydrocarbons minister on September 15, Andres Soliz Rada, described by many as the strongman of left-wing President Evo Morales who pushed a hard line on the nationalisation of gas, lashed
Sue Bolton There have been several industrial disputes since the Howard government's anti-union Work Choices amendments to the 1996 Workplace Relations Act came into effect on March 27 in which workers have defied the legislation and scored some
Duroyan Fertl The small oil-rich Andean country of Ecuador goes to the polls on October 15 to elect a new president. Normally, the US isn't too worried about who wins the presidential sash, as they usually end up dancing to Washington's tune. But
Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne A coalition of welfare and legal groups launched Operation Smart Justice on September 19. It aims to challenge "law and order populism" in the lead-up to Victoria's November 25 state election. Anthony Kelly from the
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. To Global Warming or Anything ElseBy Helen CaldicottMelbourne University Press, 2006248 pages, $24.95 REVIEW BY TIM STEWART Helen Caldicott, veteran campaigner and ferocious critic of everything nuclear, has
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