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JOHANNESBURG &#151 In a show of people's power, 6000 residents of KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng reoccupied their homes on September 12 after being forcibly evicted a day earlier by thugs employed by a company partly owned by African

Of the 10,149,542 Brazilians who participated in a week-long unofficial referendum on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), 9,979,964 (98.33%) voted against Brazil joining the US-dominated economic bloc. The

BERLIN &#151 Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power

HAVANA &#151 A dispatch from the EFE news agency in July confirmed that a new method of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the world's least democratic countries, comparable with

Three weeks after the fatal shooting of two Americans and an Indonesian from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, the identity of the perpetrators is still unclear. Indonesian

LONDON — The anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US were remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering

BY CHRIS BAMBERY& ALEX CALLINICOS LONDON &#151 It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the death on September 17 of Duncan Hallas. Duncan was one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency (IST). He supported Tony Cliff

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on September 18 that they are seeking “substantial autonomy and self-government in the Tamil homeland and expressed optimism that a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could be worked out by

Victory for Samsonite workers On September 13, the last 29 workers illegally sacked by a Thai subcontractor of US luggage giant Samsonite were reinstated. The company gave assurances that it will not "interfere with trade union activities" or

MANILA — More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino workers.

AUCKLAND &#151 The new New Zealand parliament is now sworn in and the Labour-Progressive minority coalition government headed by Prime Minister Helen Clark has delivered its "speech from the throne" &#151 sketching out its

The commemorations for the innocent people killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York received saturation television coverage across the globe. However, Israel's atrocities committed against the Palestinian