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  1. BRITAIN: Unity fires socialist election campaign

    responded warmly to Loach, arguing, "We must declare war on the sectarianism which has dogged us for so ... 402 April 19, 2000 BRITAIN: Unity fires socialist election campaign LONDON 鈥 On April 13, the ... unity on the usually fractious British far left? Without doubt, it is the change of attitude towards ...

  2. Indonesian PRD resumes open campaigning

    and Max Lane On March 21, the People's Democratic Party (PRD) organised a series a public ... campaign activities of a myriad of local action committees on campuses, in factory areas or poor squatter ... areas. The PRD has been formally legal since a lower court lifted the ban on it in September 1998, citing ...

  3. Cuba: showing how to defeat racism

    overwhelming majority of the population. This discrimination was based not only on race but, more importantly, ... on class. The revolutionary government correctly realised that to overcome racism it needed to ... is finding accurate statistics on who is, or defines themselves as, black. According to the 1955 ...

  4. Prague 2000: Boris Kagarlitsky's diary of the people's movement

    427 November 8, 2000 The final part of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the ... They sit directly on the pavement, singing and chanting slogans. Street theatre troupes perform in the ... on a building site. The police are no longer blockading the demonstrators, they themselves are ...

  5. Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?

    fashion brands that rely on outsourced sweatshop labour were concerned, was that so many workers 鈥 more ... goods on our shelves and the exploited foreign workforce that makes them was bridged. With research ... was a general feeling that 鈥渟omething鈥 should be done. Three months on from Rana Plaza, what has ...

  6. ACEH: Military tightens grip in run-up to elections

    brutal 24-year occupation. On April 5, Indonesians will go to the polls to elect new national, regional ... own interests". Foreign observers Following a cabinet session on March 12, the government ... military command (PDMD), Major General Endang Suwarya, told Serambi on February 14: "Every single ...

  7. Philippines: Moro people demand self-determination

    Estrada declared all-out war on the MILF. The MILF has been involved in peace negotiations with the ... the Moro homeland, Bangsamoro, was included. In the ensuing war, which lasted until 1913, 20,000 Moros ... each province for businesspeople, fisherpeople, farmers, traditional leaders, women, youth, etc., in ...

  8. The search for common ground

    our new prime minister, Julia Gillard, proclaim on her night of victory that our nation expects the ... new federal parliament 鈥渢o find more common ground in the national interest鈥 we may care to reflect on ... everything on legal precedent. Our law has often been blind to Indigenous rights. In the eyes of Indigenous ...

  9. Hugo Chavez: Hero of the poor slams Bush

    such as Venezuela's decision to withdraw its charge d'affaires from Israel during the war on ... United Nations General Assembly on September 20 not for diplomatic niceties but to expose the reality of ... World nations to overcome the legacy of imperialist domination. Prensa Latina reported on September 15 ...

  10. Greece eyewitness: SYRIZA pushes rapid changes

    SYRIZA Athens There were scenes of joy on the streets of Athens on the night of January 25 as results of ... hope, with dignity and steady steps towards a changing Europe.鈥 SYRIZA ran on a platform of rejecting ... the catastrophic austerity measures imposed on Greece that caused a deep social crisis. After five ...

  11. United States: Rage erupts against police brutality,鈥 鈥琻eglect

    police custody, prosecutors announced on May 1. Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who said the ... eye contact with police, then began running. Despite the charges, TeleSUR English said on May 1 that ... protesters marched in more than a dozen cities across the US. An overnight curfew has been imposed by on ...

  12. Mexican students' epic struggle in danger

    鈥 Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ... a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in ... imposed on all students. This corresponded to a long-held demand of the IMF that the government cut ...

  13. Gene patents: new way to rob the Third World

    activity is being seriously opposed on a number of grounds, the legality of patenting "naturally ... Project" by its opponents, of which there are many, including the Sami indigenous women from the Nordic ... countries, who denounced the project at the Beijing Women's Conference in August 1995. While the HGP has ...

  14. Venezuela and the change of eras

    president, Venezuela has been undergoing profound and radical changes based on the simple idea that to get ... Across the country, communities, workers, small farmers, students and women are organising to begin to ... unwinnable wars in the Middle East 鈥 the other pole of opposition to imperialism that has emerged in recent ...

  15. NETHERLANDS: Left win, as the Dutch vote 'no'

    discussions about how to proceed. The media has been blaming the result on the same factors it blamed for the ... upheavel, after the Fortuyn revolt, as it is a continuation of the social protest that had its climax on ... voted almost 50/50. There was also a bigger no vote from women than from men. In the weeks leading up to ...

  16. INDONESIA: The IMF: A globalising debate

    formed at the initiative of the US government at the end of World War II. But they have come under ... with Bank Central Asia. It is also the reason why the IMF insists that tariff quotas be dropped on ... sugar. Their misery has been made worse still by the ending of subsidies on fertilisers. Solidarity with ...

  17. Dioxin: more dangerous than we thought

    in dioxin-exposed Vietnam War veterans. As well, on October 6 Reuters reported on a new 20-year study ... dioxin. Learning disorders Laboratory experiments on monkeys (marmosets) reveal learning disabilities in ... of the uterus. Endometriosis is increasing in US women. Dioxin, it is becoming clear, is an ...

  18. Contemporary foodism

    overnourished. The remedies for war, social injustice and economic anarchy all take second place to the weight of ... pathogens". Even the noble intent of the green revolution has fallen short on its promise. Before the ... of the earth are now being blamed for many of our ills. The big C, it seems, is waiting for you on ...

  19. Artist and revolutionary

    counter-punched with jibes about Counihan's "chip-on-the-shoulder class rubbish", while the poet ... Geoffrey Dutton could muse with genuine perplexity on "what artistic capital can a painter make out of ... struggles against war and fascism. Even romance was politicised. For the 24th birthday of his future wife, ...

  20. The struggle for peace in Guatemala

    their war-ravaged country. The mass movements of the early 1970s grew from agricultural worker's ... to organise on the big plantations or fincas. In 1972, peasants' daily wage was 90 centavos, ... seasonally, during harvest time, and spent the other nine months on their own small plots in the mountains. It ...

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