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  • Alliance readies for next election

    Alliance readies for next electionAUCKLAND — Two hundred and twenty-five delegates from more than 60 branches of the New Zealand Alliance and more than 75 observers packed a conference hall over November 28-29 to prepare for the

  • Paramilitaries step up attacks in southern Mexico

    As of November 24, an estimated 4500-6000 indigenous people had fled their homes in Chenalho municipality, in the highland region of the south-eastern Mexican state of Chiapas, as a result of paramilitary violence that began the week before. As many

  • Economics behind latest fighting in Afghanistan

    Fighting has erupted once again between the Taliban militia and soldiers from the opposition northern alliance led by Ahmed Shah Masood. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are three former Soviet republics that share a

  • South Africa: campaign to cancel apartheid's debt

    The apartheid regime left South Africa with huge debts that are preventing real reconstruction and development. In a bizarre twist, the people who suffered at the hands of the apartheid government are now being expected to pay again for their pain

  • Greek left confronts Maastricht

    Dimitris Desyllas of the New Left Current (NAR) and Yannis Banias, from Communist and Ecological Left Renewal (AKOA), spoke to Green Left in Athens in November. A major issue confronting the left is the European capitalist

  • Turkey escalates efforts to wipe out Kurdish militants

    While the world has been watching the conflict between Iraq and the US over the last two months, Turkey has quietly established a "security zone" as a permanent buffer against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Iraqi

  • Workers to pay for Russian fiscal chaos

    MOSCOW — On November 17, teachers in the Altai District in southern Siberia expanded a one-day protest stoppage into an indefinite strike. Almost 5000 teachers from 176 schools were taking part, the Moscow daily Trud reported,

  • Appeal launched for Dita Sari

    Appeal launched for Dita SariAccording to People's Democratic Party (PRD) sources, Dita Indah Sari, chair of the PRD-affiliated Centre for Labour Struggle, was released from hospital on November 28. Dita had been in intensive

  • Fallout on Tahitian nuclear tests

    Fallout on Tahitian nuclear tests Following the publication in Papeete, Tahiti, of the results of the independent inquiry into the consequences of the nuclear tests on the Tahitian people, several members of Hiti Tau, a Polynesian

  • Russian nuclear power crisis 'threatens new Chernobyl'

    MOSCOW — In the first decade of the next century, a series of reactor blocks at Russian nuclear power plants will reach the end of their designed service life. Government officials will then have to choose between two grim

  • Arrests as Suharto visits South Africa

    Thirty-eight trade unionists protesting against the visit of Indonesian President Suharto to South Africa were arrested in Cape Town on November 20. The protesters, members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), who