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  • IRAQ: Communists condemn Washington's 'bloody policy'

    The bombardment of Baghdad by US and British warplanes on February 16 proves that "George W. Bush's administration is maintaining the US government's bloody policy against the Iraqi masses", a statement issued by the politburo of the Worker Communist

  • LIBYA: Mandela: US, Britain have 'shifted the goal posts'

    Former South African president Nelson Mandela has accused the British and US governments of "shifting the goal posts" by refusing to honour a deal to lift UN sanctions against Libya. Mandela told the February 9 London Independent

  • ZIMBABWE: Mugabe escalates harassment of critics

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have escalated the violent harassment and repression of their critics. Mugabe faces a presidential poll in 2002. He will be

  • BRAZIL: Taking back the land

    Eron Domingos de Rocha used to work in a shoe factory in the Franca district of Sao Paolo. He earned 220 reales a month there (about US$110) — not enough, he says, to "allow you to survive". Then he met an organiser with Brazil's

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Anger at government's pay hypocrisy

    Workers in Papua New Guinea have threatened to take action to have an increase in the minimum wage restored after it was revealed that members of parliament, ministers, judges and top public servants were secretly awarded massive pay

  • PALESTINE: Sharon's victory boosts apartheid

    On February 6, Israel elected its first settler prime minister. Premier-elect Ariel Sharon, who gave his negotiators 10 days to forge a “national unity” government with Labour, maintains an official residence in Old

  • SCOTLAND: Socialists arrested in anti-nuke protest

    The Scottish Socialist Party's member in the Scottish parliament, Tommy Sheridan, was among the more than 370 anti-nuclear weapons protesters arrested at the Faslane navy base near Glasgow on February 12. Scottish Labour MP George

  • CHINA: Tiananmen revelations discredit Jiang

    The January release of the Tiananmen Papers — the purported leaked documents and transcripts of important top-level meetings of China's leaders concerning the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — appears to be aimed at discrediting President Jiang Zemin before he steps down from two of China's three most powerful positions.

  • UNITED STATES: Does Bush mean trouble for the IMF?

    Under concerted attack from increasingly vocal protest movements on its left flank, the International Monetary Fund may now face a new threat from its right flank — in the form of the new US administration of President George W.

  • SOUTH KOREA: Daewoo Motors workers strike

    SEOUL — In an effort to get back in the black, bankrupt Daewoo Motors confirmed on February 16 that it will proceed with the sacking of 1785 workers. This follows the sacking of more than 3500 in recent months. In response, the

  • EAST TIMOR: Scrap the Timor Gap Treaty

    The Australian government is attempting to prevent East Timor from gaining full sovereign rights over vast oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea that are expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties over the next 20

  • INDONESIA: Elite fears new radicalisation

    The Indonesian political elite is becoming increasingly fearful of a radicalisation of the country's masses, which is being provoked by a right-wing campaign to destabilise President Abdurrahman Wahid's government. It's turning to