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Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered the following address to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, in Durban, September 1. It has been slightly abridged. Racism, racial discrimination and

US dock workers and protesters in Portland on August 16 and Oakland on August 18 prevented the Italian ship, Cielo di San Francisco, from unloading its cargo. Protesters and members of the International Longshore Workers Union acted against the

Despite protests by human rights groups and large sections of the legal profession, Indonesia's police are continuing their prosecution of more than 30 people for their political activities. In the northern province of Aceh, where the

DURBAN — More than 3000 landless South Africans — women, farm workers, chiefs and young people — gathered on August 30 at the Roger Rovers Club for the International Landless People's Assembly, called by the newly formed

Nearly 1000 former residents of the major industrial city of Chongqing, who were displaced by Beijing's US$24 billion Three Gorges Dam project, clashed with police on August 27 when they protested in Yongzhou city, Hunan province,

DILI — In its first major mobilisation since the beginning of East Timor's election campaign, on August 25 some 5000 Timorese Socialist Party members and supporters gathered at Dili's Independence Field for one of the most energetic,

Fretilin, the party which declared East Timor independent in 1975 and which was the largest single force in the long fight against occupation, has won 57% of the vote in the country's first elections since the end of Indonesian rule —

Ngadinah binti Abu Mawardi made Indonesian history on August 30 when she became one of the first workers to defend herself in a court of law and win. The factory worker, who produces merchandise for giant Western sportswear

BEIT UMMAR, West Bank — As soon as the Israeli army jeep disappears around the bend, a dusty minivan emerges from the grape fields outside this farming town in southern West Bank. Revving the engine as he accelerates into the turn,

One of the poorest countries in Africa is about to undergo a process of debt reduction with a difference. It will be paying more in debt servicing after creditors provide debt relief than it is at present, with devastating

Thousands of South Africans protested in support of the Palestinian people in Durban on August 19. The rally packed the City Hall. Organised by the Palestine Support Committee and the Durban Social Forum, it called on the African

The United States has scored another victory in its long campaign to ensure China pays dearly to enter the World Trade Organisation, forcing the country to agree to limits on agricultural subsidies tougher than those on other Third