Norm Dixon

  • Repression is Ankara's response to PKK peace moves

    The Turkish government has significantly stepped up repression in the country's Kurdish south-eastern provinces. Ankara is cynically taking advantage of concession's offered by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the easing of

  • Mbeki warns South African unions

    Mbeki warns South African unionsSouth Africa's President Thabo Mbeki used his annual "state of the nation" address to the joint sitting of national parliament on February 4 to warn trade unions that the African National Congress

  • Herri Batasuna leaders arrested

    Following the January 21 bombing in Madrid, which apparently brought to an end ETA's (Euskadi Ta Askatasura — Basque Homeland and Freedom) 14-month unilateral cease-fire, the right-wing Spanish government has launched a serious

  • Why the West allows Russia to butcher Chechens

    Why the West allows Russia to butcher Chechens"Troops descended on the town ... and detained at least a dozen men and 20 cars ... Villagers had a similar wake-up call two days earlier when ... troops swept in and beat or harassed

  • Ozomatli: The sound of the United States' future

    The sound of the United States' futureCalifornia is infamous for the 1991 bashing of black motorist Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles "riot" — in reality a spontaneous uprising — that was triggered when the cops responsible

  • Radical LA band to play free

    Radical LA band to play freeSYDNEY — Ozomatli, a politically and musically incendiary band from Los Angeles' sprawling and distressed working-class suburbs, is coming to Sydney for three free concerts at Darling Harbour. No

  • Mbeki calls for 'black capitalist class'

    Mbeki calls for 'black capitalist class'South African President Thabo Mbeki told the annual conference of the Black Management Forum on November 20, "Because racism lives, the struggle continues. As part of the aim to eradicate

  • Nigerian military on rampage in Niger delta

    At least 43 people in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger delta region have been killed in the opening hours of an invasion by federal troops. The people of the delta have long demanded an end to the environmental and social vandalism caused by

  • Zimbabwe workers force health spending up

    Zimbabwe workers force health spending upThe Zimbabwean government bowed to public pressure on November 17 and agreed to raise per capita health spending by more than 100%. State medical staff pay will be boosted by 50%. Health

  • Zimbabwe doctors win, nurses strike

    Zimbabwe doctors win, nurses strikeNurses in several Zimbabwean cities went on strike on November 9 to demand a pay increase, three days after doctors ended their seven-week strike in protest at low salaries, poor working

  • Johannesburg workers march against privatisation

    Johannesburg workers march against privatisationAround 20,000 members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) paralysed the streets of Johannesburg on October 26 to protest against the African National

  • Iraq accuses UNSCOM of cover-up

    The Iraqi government on July 31 lodged a protest with the United Nations against the destruction of seven samples of VX nerve gas found at the UN Special Commission on Iraq's (UNSCOM) Baghdad headquarters. UNSCOM ignored an Iraqi