Australia: The Resistance to Howard's Anti-union Laws Begins
Several thousand workers in the Pilbara in Western Australia ignored government threats and kicked off the ACTU’s week of protest against the Howard government’s anti-union laws on Monday this week.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Globalization
The illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq continues to be a drain on US imperialism complicating its ability to respond more forcefully to North Korea, Zimbabwe and other perceived 'outposts of tyranny.'
India: Role of the Communists in the Restoration of Democracy
THE clamping down of internal emergency on June 26, 1975 and its operation over the next 19 months represents one of the darkest periods in the political history of India. For all practical purposes, the Indian Constitution was kept in suspense, parliamentary democracy was trodden brutally underfoot, and an authoritarian rule proclaimed.
End the Ban on Travel to Cuba
A bipartisan House bill (HR 1814) to end the ban on travel to Cuba may come up for a vote this week. Proposed by Reps. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and William Delahunt (D-MA), this bill orders that 'the President shall not regulate or prohibit, directly or indirectly, travel to or from Cuba by United States citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions incident to such travel that are set forth in subsection.'
Japan-U.S. ‘defense’ talks must be directed toward U.S. base withdrawal
In Japan-U.S. 'defense' talks, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stressed the importance of maintaining deterrence in response to Defense Agency Director General Ohno Yoshinori’s view that the task is to reduce the burden (on local residents), mainly in Okinawa.
Bush Administration Restrictions on Trade Affect Sales to Cuba
Cuba this year already spent $300 million USD in markets other than the United States due to Washington´s restrictions hindering free exchange between the two countries. Pedro Alvarez, president of the Cuban food importing company Alimport, denounced the latest measures introduced last February by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) during a meeting with US farm producers and traders.
Sudan: Rape as a Military Weapon
The Janjaweed militia forces allied with the Khartoum regime are continuing a brutal campaign of systematic sexual violence directed against the women and girls of non-Arab or African tribal groups. Khartoum for its part remains deeply complicit in this campaign, now in its third year.
America's Neo-Conservative World Supremacists Will Fail
Three continuities link the global US of the cold war era with the attempt to assert world supremacy since 2001. The first is its position of international domination, outside the sphere of influence of communist regimes during the cold war, globally since the collapse of the USSR.
Cuba: Basic wage increase for education and health workers
The recent raise of the minimum wage from 100 to 250 pesos benefited more than 1,700,000 individuals, and with that figure, approximately 537,000 occupy various posts in general and higher education, and in public health; that was the case for mid-level technicians in nursing.
Nuclear Weapons: US Isolated in its Own 'Backyard'
The Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly adopted a resolution in support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at its thirty-fifth Session earlier this month. The resolution, entitled 'Inter-American support for the CTBT' was adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on 7 June 2005 in Florida, United States of America. It is the sixth such resolution to have been adopted by the OAS General Assembly since 2000.
