With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township 鈥渟ervice delivery protests鈥, rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, global demand for rubber from the upper reaches of the Amazon (encompassing Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian territory) was at its height.
Ben Peterson is a 91自拍论坛 Weekly correspondent in Kathmandu. He spoke with Manushi Bhattarai, who was part of the Maoist ticket that won student elections at Tribhuvan University 鈥擭epal鈥檚 largest. She discussed the revolution, recent developments, the international situation and the role of youth in the struggle for change.
The article below is abridged from a June 24 statement by the Civic Council of People鈥檚 and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).
At last, after decades of brutal right-wing rule, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won El Salvador's March 15 presidential election.
An attempted coup has broken out in Honduras in the lead-up to a referendum scheduled for June 28. The referendum is on whether a further vote should be held to decide to re-write the Central American nation鈥檚 constitution.
Despite the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which waged an armed struggle for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka鈥檚 north-east, life for the Tamil minority remains one of oppression and suffering.
A week of education strikes across Germany peaked on June 17 when up to 240,000 students ditched classes in 90 cities to demand improved conditions and funding.
More than 150,000 people joined protests in France on June 13 against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy鈥檚 government to make working people carry the costs of the global economic crisis.
鈥淗undreds of workers at sites up and down the country have launched unofficial action over the last two weeks in support of 650 colleagues at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery who were dismissed鈥, Sky News said on June 25.
The British Morning Star said on June 21 that the United Nations has warned that the global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world鈥檚 hungry to a record 1 billion. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said this is an increase of 11% from last year.
NASA climate scientist James Hansen was among the 29 people arrested for trespass at an anti-coal mining protest in Raleigh County, West Virginia on June 23.
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