Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the
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Up to 100,000 people protested over four days against the European Union summit at the resort of Porto Carras, near Thessaloniki. The protesters were saying "no" to neoliberalism, war, racism and Fortress Europe.
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BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru
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GLASGOW — Six weeks after the Scottish Socialist Party increased its representation in the Scottish Parliament from one to six MSPs, the SSP's network for young people — Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) — held its second
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On June 24, US journalist William Nessen gave himself up to the Indonesian military in the northern Acehnese village of Paya Dua. Nessen had been accompanying Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters since early May, before the outbreak of
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BY AUGUSTO ZAMORA R. In 2002, 1060 people were executed in China. In the United States around 400 have been executed since 1990, an average of 35 a year or three a month. Hundreds more executions have taken place in other countries, and that's
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Student leaders held sit-ins on June 22 in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) and inside Tehran University to protest the detention of classmates following violent attacks on student protests the previous week by pro-clerical
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PARIS — As the danger of a general strike against his planned reform of the pension system receded, French social affairs minister Francois Fillon knew who to thank. He paid tribute to the "responsible attitude" of Bernard
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"The safety conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated badly in the course of 2003 and one can't say that they have changed in a decisive, long-term or effective fashion. It is therefore hard to think of promoting repatriation [of
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[The following statement was issued by 90 signatories on June 23, 2003. To view the signatories and sign on, visit <www.asia-pacific-action.org>.] We are organisations and groups concerned about human rights in Indonesia and about the
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RAMALLAH — Following the conclusion of the three-way summit between the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Aqaba on June 4, Palestinian activists and political factions have reacted with a mixture of anger and
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A survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has found that Afghanistan has supplanted Burma as the world's largest source of illegal heroin. There are now 741 square kilometres of land being used to cultivate opium poppies in