Haider, Austria and resistance
VIENNA — On August 10, 3000 people gathered outside Government House to take part in the usual Thursday demonstration against the coalition government of the conservative Austrian People's Party (VP)and the extreme
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Major donors to the Democratic convention Organisation Total to convention Total soft money, PAC & individual contributions Dems Repubs American International Group $2,000,000 $774,362 $315,162 $456,700 BP Amoco Corp $1,000,000 $1,008,070
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ASIA: Economy recovers, bound and gagged East Asia used to be the Fred Astaire of the world economy until, on a dark night in 1997, it was mugged by the combined crunch of Wall Street currency speculators and the International Monetary Fund. Now,
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LOS ANGELES — On the night of August 14, cops showed off their months of anti-protest training for the Democratic National Convention. Police shot high-pressure water and pepper spray pellets at protesters on a peaceful, festive march through
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SAN FRANCISCO — It does happen. Not often enough, but it does take place: a defeat for racial bias and white supremacy. On August 2, in a San Francisco Superior Court room, a jury punished the country's largest wholesale baker with a staggering
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SOUTH AFRICA: Who is bringing the SACP's name into disrepute? The chairperson of the Johannesburg Central branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Dale McKinley, was officially notified of his expulsion from the party on August 16. He
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Earlier this summer, a comprehensive school student from the north-east was refused a place at Oxford University, despite having exceptionally high examination grades. The Labour Party, in a populist outburst which even by their standards of cynicism
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PACIFIC: US military a 'toxic criminal' SAIPAN, CNMI — Greenpeace has declared the United States government a toxic criminal for using the Pacific as a dumping ground for its poisons. Greenpeace and Tanapag villagers have re-fenced and signposted
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AUSTRIA: Peak union plays dead Austrian peak union plays dead GRAZ, Austria — At a recent government-organised summit, it was proclaimed that the European Union target of a zero budget deficit could be reached only through joint national
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Hypocrisy, Republican style SAN FRANCISCO — The four-day Republican Party convention finally came to an end on August 4 with the formal nomination of Texas Governor George W. ("Dubya") Bush, as the party's presidential candidate in November.
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Pro-Jakarta militia operating out of refugee camps and other bases in West Timor show no sign of scaling down their attacks upon refugees or United Nations soldiers and humanitarian staff. The increasing number of clashes between the militia and UN
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UNITED STATES: Anti-corporate activists go cross-country Fresh from protests against the Republican convention in Philadelphia, a coalition of pro-democracy groups set out cross-country on August 8 to share their message with unions and the rest of