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Adam Hanieh RAMALLAH — Tension in the West Bank has increased dramatically in the last two weeks following the shooting of three Palestinian workers at a roadblock into the West Bank on March 10. As Palestinians working in Israel were returning

SYDNEY — More than 50 people gathered to hear Patricia Pego Guerra, a visiting representative of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples and the Union of Young Communists, speak about life in Cuba after 40 years of

At Chinese Communist Party congress in September — the first formal occasion since Deng Xiaoping's death on which China's state, military and CP chief Jiang Zemin could show the world that he was really in charge — Jiang announced

The following is a detailed account of the actions on March 19 and 20 in Lampung, South Sumatra, given to Green Left Weekly by some of the activists involved. One hundred and twenty students were injured, eight with broken bones; 121 were arrested;

The slaughter unleashed by Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian regime in the occupied region of Kosovo, killing 80 innocent villagers in the region of Drenica, has provoked western condemnation. However, this has little to do with

The collapse of Stalinism in the late 1980s and early '90s has resulted in a widespread rethinking of the notion of revolutionary politics and in particular the concept of state power. This discussion has resulted in numerous

South Africa's finance minister, Trevor Manuel, on March 11 delivered the African National Congress government's fifth budget. The speech was met with applause from big business and raspberries from the trade union movement. With the

Dock workers under attackThe Liverpool dockers' heroic 28-month struggle in England was especially noteworthy for the international solidarity campaign that resulted in actions and work stoppages by fellow dockers in more

Roisin McAliskey freed In January, a London magistrate signed an order for the extradition to Germany of Roisin McAliskey on charges that she was involved in an IRA bomb attack on a British army base in Osnabruck in June 1996. On March 10, that

"Weapons inspectors from the UN Special Commission in Iraq have a serious public relations problem: Hardly anyone — Iraqi or foreigner — has a kind word for them", reported a Baghdad-based correspondent for the Times of India

US car giant collaborated with NazisThe Ford Motor Company reaped "enormous profits" from collaboration with Hitler's Nazis, a class action suit claims. Ford used slave labour to build tens of thousands of military vehicles at its

Class-struggle unionism isn't deadWorkers at Caterpillar, which produces farm and heavy construction equipment, have been fighting for a fair contract since November 1991, when the company forced a strike by the United