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The United States has created a real mess for itself in Korea. Washington's strategy of incessantly stirring up confrontation would be less risky if it wasn't also accompanied by a doctrine of permanent, global, pre-emptive war: For the

PHNOM PENH — Hundreds of workers jammed into the premises of the Womyn's Agenda for Change on May 1 to celebrate May Day. The day's events were organised primarily by garment workers, who produce for subcontractors who supply

GLASGOW — Socialism has taken a giant leap forward in Scotland. In a wonderful May Day election success, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) will send six members into the Scottish parliament. The leader of the SSP, Tommy

With the destruction of the Baath Party regime, two significant political poles have emerged within Iraq — US-imposed administration headed by retired US general Jay Garner and the anti-US occupation Shiite clergy. It is the

The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold

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JAKARTA — About 10,000 people marched on May 1 in a colourful display of opposition to the anti-worker policies of the Indonesian government. Organised by the May Day Action Committee, the demonstration drew together contingents

APTOS, California Despite staunch backing from fundamental religious groups, the Bush administration continues to face opposition over the war in Iraq from mainstream religious leaders. Many wonder how religious groups that claim

KUALA LUMPUR — Around 1000 people, including plantation and factory workers, farmers, urban settlers and students, attended a lunch-time rally on May 1 in the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) to commemorate May Day. Organised

The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government of “deliberate recklessness”. The attack, the third on foreign supporters of the

"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International

Even as the administration of US President George Bush was waging war with Iraq in order to "disarm" its regime of as-yet-discovered chemical and biological weapons, Washington continued to implement a US$6 billion-plus expansion of