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  1. Peru: Army targets civilians in hostage crisis

    involved in expanding a gas pipeline, were captured on April 9 in Kephasiato, a small hamlet in the ... workers were freed unharmed on April 14. During the crisis, at least four members of the Peruvian police ... million they demanded as ransom. The company denies this. On April 23, the administration of President ...

  2. Avatar is real: Pandora is in Central and South America

    forests on Earth will be taken over by rich and powerful military armies, working on behalf of the ... governments and interest groups in Latin America passed special legislation based on the ... caught in the middle of the internal war between the government, the guerrillas and the ...

  3. Beware the road to tyranny

    organised by the ACT Network Opposing War and Racism, protesting the terror laws on November 28.] Dear Mr ... Australia in the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq. In response, you said on August 10, 2003: "The 43 ... of preventing legal family reunions for refugees who had come to Australia on unauthorised boat ...

  4. Grave challenges ahead for Indian left

    backs the BJP's war on the basic rights and interests of the Indian people, the CPI-ML central ... election on the ticket of the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), which unites various 91自拍论坛 of ... endeavour to mobilise the masses on a larger scale and give a decisive blow to the forces of communal ...

  5. Democrats: still trying to keep the bastards honest

    and Coalition governments. The Democrats go to this election with policies that are, on the whole, ... of Labor's harshest blows. They call for more spending on social welfare, health, education, ... environment, women and Aborigines. They are for a bill of rights, self-determination for East Timor and an end ...

  6. A people's revolution shakes Nepal

    assembly to draft a new constitution. Through the course of the People's War, despite flexibility on ... 830 March 13, 2010 On May 28, 2008, an elected constituent assembly declared Nepal's ... talk at night when the old women laugh and call across the rooftops. Kathmandu is a valley. The white ...

  7. The making of 'the apprentice's bible'

    and became a socialist. For Noonan, "class war" was not an empty phrase but a building-site ... work colleagues. He would "get exasperated when he could make no impression on the workmen when ... began a series of pamphlets on how capitalism works and why socialism is needed. Using his conversations ...

  8. How Thatcher smashed the unions

    discussed. Thornett was a militant unionist and revolutionary socialist. His leadership and activism on the ... The union bureaucracy "cut the branch it was sitting on", disarming the workers' ... militants, including Thornett, opened the door to later Tory sorties on workers. Wherever the left ran ...

  9. 500th issue solidarity messages from around the world

    mainstream has equalled her incisive reporting. Norm Dixon's analysis of the "war on ... on terrorism" and the US-backed Israeli war against the Palestinians has been exemplary. Your ... 500 July 17, 2002 Congratulations to 91自拍论坛 Weekly on its 500th issue. Like other supporters ...

  10. IRAQ: US launches mass slaughter in Fallujah

    606 November 17, 2004 Doug Lorimer On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated ... artillery and attack helicopters 鈥 was preceded by weeks of nightly air strikes on residential buildings, ... reported that hundreds of residents, most of them women, children and elderly men, were being killed by US ...

  11. Pilbara: Australia's longest strike

    strike, sometimes referred to as the "Blackfellas' Eureka". It started on May 1, 1946, and ... worked on dozens of stock and sheep stations throughout north-west Western Australia, wanted 30 shilling ... humpies, without floors, lighting, sanitation, furniture or cooking facilities. On some stations, ...

  12. ZIMBABWE: Mugabe's poll fraud

    485 March 20, 2002 BY NORM DIXON On March 13, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was officially ... process favours Mugabe", Hondora told the United Nations news service on March 11. The Zimbabwe ... observers and the MDC polling agents by war veterans renders the election outcome null and void. We wish to ...

  13. German Greens conference ends in stand-off

    presidium (equal numbers of women and men) took their seats on the stage 鈥 surrounded by flowering pot ... War that Iraqi attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa were the result of Israeli policies towards the ... correspondent SALLY LOW reports below on the April 26-28 first all-German convention of the Greens in ...

  14. Why is an Israeli soldier worth more than a Palestinian child?

    entire lives behind bars away from their family and friends. The thousands of children, women and men ... awaiting news on their child鈥檚 whereabouts, praying that their child wouldn鈥檛 be tortured 鈥 too much. Those ... when they were arrested back in 1991. They were among the first 477 prisoners of war to be released in ...

  15. Socialist Alliance: Left unites against Liberal-Labor consensus

    parties on February 17, opens the door to immense opportunities for the radical left. Here are statements ... organisations and the Greens. The Socialist Alliance will build on that. If we can work together in the ... on May Day plus the continuation of industrial disputes such as in the Latrobe Valley, as well as the ...

  16. 'We can give hope to people'

    with their war on Iraq, just a year after they destroyed Afghanistan. The world now desperately needs ... different ways, like beating us with hands and sticks, and making us stand on cement in the hot sun for more ... university and was arrested again on February 2, 1997. 聯In January, the Sudanese People's Liberation ...

  17. Spot the armed and dangerous fundamentalists

    women, men and children who were members of the Davidian Christian group and four BATF agents in the most ... law who reviewed the Justice Department's report on Waco. He tells an interviewer: "When ... the initial raid. Far from planning a raid on a dangerous group stockpiling weapons, the BATF is ...

  18. Disability is not a protection against villainy

    themselves. They know that the efforts wasted on gaining sectional advantage deflect the citizenry from the ... world war, a range of benefits were introduced to cover short-term unemployment, sickness and other ... workers, understanding the disproportionate rewards which the rich got through tax subsidies on ...

  19. No peace without equality

    written numerous books on the Middle East and literature. This book is a collection of articles written ... and an acceptance of the New World Order promoted by the US establishment following the Gulf War of ... rate. Accompanying this attempt to create "facts on the ground" has been the construction of ...

  20. New movement seeks to revive Pakistani left

    Tehrik held a special conference here on May 3-4 to discuss the possibility of a new left-wing party. The ... Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women, Marxist Workers Tendency Sri ... conflict, which could lead to a civil war-like situation. The speakers also agreed that the present ...

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