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  • 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

  • Abortion clinic bombed in Alabama

    By Claudette Bégin On January 29, a nail-studded bomb killed a guard and seriously injured a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. It had appeared to be a normal day at the New Woman All Women Health Clinic. An anti-abortion

  • Chips off the old block: Suharto's corrupt children

    By George J. Aditjondro Having accumulated their initial capital from the Salim Group of Liem Sioe Liong and Nusamba Group of Bob Hasan, Suharto's six children began to form their own conglomerates. During this phase, Daddy was always ready to give

  • Fees struggle erupts in South Africa

    More than 300 students were arrested after staging a sit-in at the University of Western Cape (UWC) on February 1. The students were protesting against increased university fees and hard-line regulations that exclude students who

  • Philippines democratic front to contest elections

    MANILA — At the convention of the broad democratic front Sanlakas held on January 31, more than 100 delegates elected five candidates to stand in the May national elections. Fifty-two congressional seats will be contested