World

  • BRITAIN: The great betrayal

    LONDON — In his first few weeks as prime minister, Tony Blair made a number of symbolic gestures. One of them was to visit the Aylesbury estate in South London, where the poor lived. The stairs of the rough-cast concrete estate

  • INDIA: Socialist blames BJP for massacre

    The March massacre of more than 2000 Muslims in Gujarat was not a spontaneous outburst of religious anger, but a cold-blooded, anti-Muslim pogrom masterminded by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dipankar Bhattacharya,

  • ANGOLA: The crisis you aren't hearing about

    Out of sight of the world, a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions is unfolding in Angola, as perhaps hundreds of thousands of people flee the “grey zones”, the 90% of the country which have until now been closed to

  • IRAQ: Terrorist connection that never was

    Another of the US government's post-September 11 lies has been exposed — and from the horse's mouth. According to the April 28 Newsweek magazine, US officials have confirmed that the alleged leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, could

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Greenpeace highlights illegal logging

    Greenpeace activists blocked the export of illegally logged timber from the Kiunga-Aiambak logging project in western Papua New Guinea on March 12. Volunteers locked themselves onto a barge carrying the timber and also obstructed the

  • PALESTINE: Israel's land grab

    A report released on May 13 by B'Tselem, the Israeli centre for human rights in the Occupied Territories, exposes the continuing illegal appropriation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government and Israeli colonial settlers.

  • PALESTINE: A meeting with Arafat

    RAMALLAH — "They want us to enact a constitution? No problem! I shall ask Israel to send me a copy of theirs and copy it word for word!" Yasser Arafat sent me an amused look. Israel, of course, has no constitution. That was on the

  • CUBA: Carter's concept of 'democracy' debated

    BY KAREN FLETCHER, JO WILLIAMS & JORGE JORQUERA HAVANA — Former US president Jimmy Carter's historic May 12-17 visit to Cuba has highlighted the differences within the US ruling class over how to defeat Cuba's socialist revolution. The wing

  • PHILIPPINES: The struggle for labour unity

    The Solidarity of Philippines Workers (BMP) labour organisation was formed in 1993 emerged from the Communist Party of the Philippines-aligned May First Movement (KMU). Today, the BMP is the largest militant labour organisation in

  • EAST TIMOR: Independence poses new challenges

    As the official festivities wind down in East Timor following the May 20 independence celebrations and the international dignitaries fly back to their comfortable and privileged lifestyles, a beckoning question for most East Timorese

  • ISRAEL: Large Tel Aviv rally calls for troop pullout

    Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories. Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace Now — put the figure at

  • CUBA: 'Our weapons are morality, reason and ideas'

    The following is an abridged version of a statement issued on May 10 by Cuban President Fidel Castro in response to allegations by the US government that Cuba is developing biological weapons (BW). John Bolton, an