Jailed PRD leader: 'We want to empower the people'
Since March 21, when the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) relaunched itself as a political party that campaigns openly, rightist groups and political figures have campaigned for its banning.
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US: it's money, not morals
By Zanny Begg
With grave insincerity, US President Bill Clinton informed the world on March 25 that NATO had a "moral imperative" to intervene in Serbia to "defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe". Clinton assured
May Day: 'The movement is worth more'
By Jonathan Singer
For more than 100 years, workers and socialists around the world have seen May Day — May 1 — as the international day of working-class demonstration and action. It symbolises the
East Timor: time for action
By Jon Land
The events of April mark another turning point in the East Timorese people's struggle for independence. Pro-integration terrorist gangs armed and funded by the Indonesia military have unleashed a wave of
By Patrick Bond
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's June 2 national and provincial elections
will be won by the African National Congress (ANC) government with two-thirds
(or possibly more) of the vote. Nelson Mandela will hand the presidency
Residents say no to loss of parkland
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Residents in the Parkville and Carlton areas have united to protect permanently reserved parkland at Royal Park near the Royal Melbourne Zoo which is being threatened by the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — When police in the city of Krasnodar in southern Russia searched a rucksack belonging to 19-year-old Gennady Nepshikuyev last November, they found a bomb. It was not a particularly sophisticated bomb, just a container
Good morning Vietnam!
Good morning, Vietnam! And it's a lovely day here in beautiful downtown Pristina. Wakey wakey, hands off snakey. It's time to rise and shine! Up and at them! It's yours truly on the dial way until 10 this AM today. Yessiree,
By Barry Sheppard
For two weeks in the wake of the police's February 4 shooting of Ahmed Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant in New York, daily protests kept the spotlight on police terror against blacks and Hispanics. A mass civil disobedience
The harsh reality of sex discrimination
By Ida Rohne
Sexual harassment, intimidation and gender-based discrimination are confronted by working women on a daily basis. More than 85% of complaints received by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
By James Vassilopoulos
David Beniuk will perform songs from his latest CD, UnAustralian Folk Songs, at the Canberra 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly May Day dinner on May 1 at the Pensioners Club in Acton. Beniuk describes his music as "dysfunctional/
'Fact and fantasy' at Lucas Heights reactor
By Jim Green
SYDNEY — The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), which operates the nuclear reactor in southern Sydney, is distributing a document called "Lucas Heights —
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