DURBAN — On March 5, there were protests by AIDS activists around the world against the South African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association legal attack on South Africa's laws designed to make anti-AIDS medicines cheaper.
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SEOUL — Daewoo's Bupyong factory recommenced operations on March 7 under the guard of 8000 riot police. As 80 buses took workers into the factory about 200 laid-off workers attempted to block them. All were detained by the police.
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Following the lead of Brazil and South Africa, Kenya announced on March 6 that it plans to relax its patent laws to enable its population to buy cheaper drugs to fight HIV/AIDS. Health minister Sam Ongeri said he would introduce a
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"In all that we do, we will honour our obligation to provide protection for those fleeing persecution. We must not allow such tragic loss of life to continue." With this blatant lie British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian
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DILI — The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic East Timor" was presented to East Timor's National Council by the United Nations Transitional
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The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of
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Canadian police have launched a ferocious campaign to discredit, intimidate and, they no doubt hope, scare off would-be protesters from the April 20-22 Summit of the Americas (SoA) in Quebec City. Leaders from 34 countries of the
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SAN FRANCISCO — The richest US citizens are paying a declining share of their income even as their incomes grow more rapidly than everyone else's does. Yet President George W. Bush announced a budget that includes a tax cut proposal that will give
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In the face of rising police violence backed by the Hindu fundamentalist-dominated state government in Jharkhand, India's newest state which came into existence only in November, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) led a
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BY CHRIS LATHAM & PIP HINMAN On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was extended for the third time since the so-called humanitarian pause in 2000. These declarations mean nothing,
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MEXICO CITY — The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) is marching on Mexico City to publicise the plight of Mexico's indigenous peoples and to press its demand for adoption of the San Andres peace accords to put an end to
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Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23. An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,