CZECH REPUBLIC: Communist Party's velvet return
A spectre haunted last November's celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the "velvet revolution". After years on the margins, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) had suddenly doubled
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BY DAVID ROBIE & SHERYL HO
SUVA, May 20 — George Speight, the leader of the seven gunmen who seized Fiji parliament on May 19, has defied mounting international condemnation of the kidnapping of Fiji's elected cabinet. He claims that his
Less than a month ago, Peter Boyle walked the sad and dusty one-kilometre stretch of the only open land border crossing between Pakistan and India, at Wagha.
Compensate the stolen generations!
Last month, the federal minister for Aboriginal affairs, John Herron, questioned the use of the term "stolen generation" to describe the victims of decades of Australian government policy to forcibly remove
Heat still on at Bondi Beach
SYDNEY — Protesters are maintaining their presence at the construction site of the Olympics beach volleyball stadium at Bondi Beach. Hundreds of people stopped at stalls on May 13 and 14 to sign a petition against the
Support for teachers urged
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — One hundred and seventy people, angry at the diversion of federal and state funds from public to private schools, were urged to support the NSW teachers' industrial campaign and calls for
RAMALLAH — Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops
broke out in the West Bank on May 15 and 16, the most violent confrontations
since 1998. Four Palestinians were killed; two Palestinian children also
died when they were
Dishonest advertising
BY JONATHAN SINGER
"It is hard to accept that the federal government's latest GST advertisements are anything more than political propaganda ... the television campaign is devoid of any information that could plausibly be
Solidarity with refugees
BY BIANCA AZAR
SYDNEY — Danger. Displacement. Despair. The experiences of refugees are undeniably grim, and the difficult, often demoralising process of seeking asylum in Australia makes their struggle even harder. But
NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT JUSTICE!
Sunday, March 28
Sydney
Join the "No reconciliation without justice" contingent in the Corroboree 2000 walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Rally at 10am, Clark Park, Lavender St, Milson Point to demand:
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SOUTH AFRICA: Land reform blocked
JOHANNESBURG — The Zimbabwean land crisis presents South African activists with an opportunity to honestly review their country's land reform program to date. South Africa's post-apartheid land reform program was
The suicide of New Left Review
By Boris Kagarlitsky
For 40 years, New Left Review was a symbol for the radical intelligentsia throughout the world. Now, this journal is no more. There is another journal which bears the same name, but it is
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