Despite claims by the Western media that women are now free in
Afghanistan, women and organisations that support women's rights are still
being targeted by the Northern Alliance-dominated, US-backed government
in Kabul.
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CHICAGO — The Bush administration has been parading handcuffed felons from WorldCom, ImClone and Adelphia in front of the TV cameras. But it's getting harder by the day to sell the story that the collapse of corporate giants like
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BOGOTA US under-secretary of state for political affairs Marc Grossman led a delegation of senior US political and military leaders to Colombia to hold talks with the government of newly elected President Ivaro Uribe
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BOGOTA Although it has gone unreported in the mainstream media, paramilitary death squads working with the Colombian security forces have continued assassinating hundreds of civilians in recent weeks. Among the dead
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GLASGOW Three-hundred ancillary workers at Glasgow's biggest hospital, the Royal Infirmary, on August 16 celebrated a sweeping victory over Sodexho, one of the most powerful multinational corporations in Europe. The company has been
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JOHANNESBURG On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum (SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than the fact that they wanted to
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The unravelling of the reputations of firms that were once the toast of Wall Street continues and the end is not in sight. But one thing is certain: already fragile prior to Enron, the legitimacy of global capitalism as the dominant
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LAGOS One woman was shot dead on August 8 in Nigeria's southern oil town of Warri when groups of women protesters besieged the premises of oil transnationals Royal-Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco, witnesses said. They said two groups of
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[The following statement was issued on August 5 by the central committee of the newly formed Workers Party of the Philippines.] MANILA In a historic step forward for the Philippine left, more than a hundred delegates from three
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SAN FRANCISCO Once again an amateur's videotape is spoiling the lawful deeds of cops in Los Angeles county. In 1991 it was Rodney King. Today it is a teenager. Unbeknownst to the cops, these videotapes exposed the men in
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BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG Not far from the predominately working-class Northwest Province town of Rustenburg, where the South African Communist Party (SACP) recently held its 11th congress on July 24-28, lies the garish ramparts
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Tamim's family live in Joee Sheer, which means "stream of milk". But, outside his slum home, a stream of warm, reeking sewage flows. Never was there more reason to take off your shoes at a wooden door. Inside, you climb a narrow