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  • Protests continue as PA bans demonstrations

    Protests continue as PA bans demonstrations Adam Hanieh RAMALLAH — More than 50 people gathered outside the US consulate in East Jerusalem on February 16 to protest against US policy on Iraq. The demonstration, which united Palestinians and

  • Liverpool dockers draw lessons of defeat

    On January 26, Jimmy Nolan, the chairperson of the Merseyside Port Shop Stewards Committee, notified supporters that the Liverpool dockers had decided to end their two-and-a-half-year dispute. After a herculean and heroic

  • Indonesia: Behind the 'anti-Chinese' riots

    Attacks on government offices, police stations and shops by groups of poor people in the cities and countryside have become a feature of social and political life in Indonesia since February 1996. It is an irregular but important

  • East Timorese seek asylum in embassies

    East Timorese seek asylum in embassiesSix East Timorese youths entered the Spanish embassy in Jakarta on February 11, requesting asylum and travel to Portugal. They are the third group of East Timorese to seek asylum in foreign

  • Blair Labour's 'reforms'

    [Printed here are excerpts from three articles in Socialist Appeal analysing the British Labour government's social policies.] 'Welfare to work'? The Labour government intends to introduce workfare for the long-term unemployed. Workfare is an

  • Alarming increase in Amazon deforestation

    According to figures released by the National Institute of Space Surveys on January 26, deforestation in the Amazonian region has increased alarmingly in recent years. Around 2,905,900 hectares of forest were cut down in 1994-95, double the annual

  • An Arab woman in a Jewish state

    WEST BANK — Twice in the last three months, my room-mates and I, Palestinian women living in our native land, were attacked by our Jewish neighbours. Palestinians continue to be treated as unwanted foreigners in their own land. Last

  • Former citizens of East Germany persecuted

    Discrimination, marginalisation and persecution of former citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in unified Germany have reached alarming proportions, according to a declaration signed by representatives of all

  • South Korean workers reject austerity

    In an affirmation of grassroots democracy, a majority of member unions of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) on February 9-10 voted down an agreement which their leadership had tentatively entered into with the bosses and

  • Russian workers refute myth of passivity

    MOSCOW — Part of the Russian "soul", western tradition holds, is a unique bent for passive suffering. Centuries of peasant revolts, not to speak of other convulsions, give the lie to this myth. Nevertheless, it still gets

  • World trade union network against Rio Tinto launched

    World trade union network against Rio Tinto launched World trade union network against Rio Tinto launchedTrade unions with members in the Rio Tinto corporation have launched a worldwide network to defend workers' pay and

  • Philippines left confronts the economic crisis

    Philippines left confronts the economic crisis MANILA — FRANCISCO NEMENZO, a founding member of BISIG (Union for Socialist Ideas and Action) and the newly-established AKBAYAN! (Citizens' Action Party) spoke to Green Left Weekly's REIHANA MOHIDEEN