GLW issue 685, published 2006-09-27.

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PAKISTAN: Progressive newspaper fund appeal

Pat Denny The Labour Party Pakistan has issued a financial appeal to help maintain the newspaper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers' Struggle), which is Pakistan's only weekly Urdu-language socialist paper. The campaign is running until October 31. In

BOLIVIA: The two blocs within MAS

Only days after handing over his irrevocable resignation as hydrocarbons minister on September 15, Andres Soliz Rada, described by many as the strongman of left-wing President Evo Morales who pushed a hard line on the nationalisation of gas, lashed

Write On: Letters to the Editor

SACP It should come as little surprise that Mazibuko Jara, writing on behalf of the Young Communist League in South Africa (Write On, GLW #683), is "concerned" by the articles appearing in GLW on the politics of the South African Communist Party and

Loose Cannons

Outrageously enriched "UN inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House [of Representatives] committee report on Iran's capabilities,
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INDONESIA: Historians under criminal investigation

Max Lane Several prominent Indonesian historians have come under criminal investigation for writing an official history textbook in 2004 in which they no longer insisted that the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) was the mastermind of an attempted

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Canberra's 'bullying' denounced

Doug Lorimer In a September 18 national radio address — six days after ordering the expulsion of Australian high commissioner Patrick Cole — Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare accused Canberra of using aid and the presence of Australian troops
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