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Campesino coca growers (cocaleros), public school teachers and other labour sectors in Bolivia joined together during the week of September 18 to press their demands with a coordinated series of strikes, protests and roadblocks that had the country

BRAZIL: Land reform activist murdered Sandoval Alves de Lima, a land reform activist and one of the leaders of a group of landless families occupying an estate in northeastern Brazil, has been shot dead by a gunman closely linked to the

PRAGUE — This city was deliberately chosen as the venue for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to showcase what IMF managing director Horst Kohler triumphantly called "the new Prague", the jewel of a capitalist

LONDON — The idea that Britain has a "dot com" economy got a severe jolt with the week-long protests outside the oil depots, which brought the country to a complete stop. It became rapidly apparent that, to function, every aspect of industry and

Nothing can highlight more the failure of the Indonesian government to rein in the pro-Jakarta militias operating in West Timor than the sham weapons handover that began on September 22. The first three-day "persuasive" phase of the handover has been

Heavily armed gunmen, suspected of belonging to a paramilitary group, murdered four leaders from the Embera-Kateo indigenous communities in Colombia's Upper Sinu River Basin on September 19. Twenty other Embera-Kateo people were abducted by the

It was the movement which finally toppled the dictator Suharto in 1998 which made Romawaty Sinaga realise that workers and students had to unite to achieve any lasting fundamental change. IN that year, she left her position as an assistant lecturer

HO CHI MINH CITY — When a canteen manager in the Taiwanese shoe company Hue Phong physically attacked female Vietnamese workers, for "standing out of line" at the dinner queue, the company was immediately confronted by the wrath of the entire

UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power? SAN FRANCISCO — Working people — workers, small farmers and those called "middle-income families" — know in their guts corporations have too much power. The September 11 Business Week confirmed it.

Some 30 people were injured and at least 46 arrested in Jakarta on September 27 in a series of clashes between anti-Suharto and pro-Suharto protesters and the police, following the dismissal of corruption charges against the former Indonesian

PRAGUE — More than 11,000 police, mostly in riot units, will be deployed on city streets during the IMF and World Bank meeting. They will be assisted in their tasks by more than 1600 troops. The Czech troops will deploy six armoured personnel

PRAGUE — Fresh from disrupting the World Economic Forum's summit in Melbourne, the next stop for the anti-capitalism express is Prague, in the Czech Republic, where on September 26 the two major enforcers of corporate globalisation, the