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  • South Africa announces 'world's largest' forest privatisation

    South Africa announces 'world's largest' forest privatisation South Africa announces 'world's largest' forest privatisation By Norm Dixon The South African government on March 4 announced it latest privatisation project: the sale of the rights

  • Papuan representatives demand independence

    Papuan representatives demand independenceOne hundred West Papuan community representatives met with President Habibie, members of his cabinet and the head of Indonesian armed forces (ABRI) in West Papua, in Jakarta on February

  • Fight over water privatisation in South Africa

    Fight over water privatisation in South AfricaJOHANNESBURG — Attempts by the African National Congress government to privatise the water of Dolphin Coast municipality in kwaZulu-Natal province, in breach of a national agreement,

  • Remodernising Russia: the role of the left

    Remodernising Russia: the role of the left BORIS KAGARLITSKY interviews ANATOLY BARANOV. A left journalist, Baranov in 1996 came under attack from the authorities in the Moscow municipality, after an article he had written for the newspaper Pravda

  • Resistance and repression continue in Kurdistan

    Resistance and repression continue in KurdistanThe Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has responded to the abduction of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, by vowing to escalate the struggle for national self-determination. This was the

  • Government hides report on Biak killings

    Government hides report on Biak killingsThe Australian Defence Department has refused a freedom of information request concerning West Papua put to the Department of Foreign Affairs. When Indonesian armed forces reacted

  • Military's man takes over Nigeria

    Nigeria's corrupt and brutal military — which has ruled Africa's most populous country with an iron fist almost continuously since independence — has succeeded in placing its favoured candidate, former military dictator Olusegun

  • For peace and justice in Afghanistan

    MOHAMMED ISSA is president of the Afghan Watan Party. He was interviewed in Brussels on February 10 by AMJAD AYUB for the Pakistani Marxist news magazine Struggle. The following is abridged from that interview. Question: What is the present

  • Scotland's domestic violence ad campaign no help

    GLASGOW — Statistics published by Scottish Women's Aid (SWA), the main organisation providing care and support to women and children fleeing domestic violence, reveal the extent of the crisis in the provision of these

  • Indonesian political prisoners may be pardoned

    Indonesian political prisoners may be pardoned Stop press: Indonesian political prisoners may be pardoned Following the registration of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) for the June 7 Indonesian general election (see article page 18),

  • PRD finally registered as a political party

    In a surprise turn of events, on February 24 it was announced that the People's Democratic Party (PRD) has been officially registered as a political party. Earlier, the body overseeing the election registrations had "postponed" a

  • Anti-capitalist movements linking up

    BRUSSELS — Between 500-1000 social movement activists from around the world will be meeting in Brussels on March 12-13 to map out a strategy for an international campaign to press the rich countries to waive the crushing debt they