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Loyalist cease-fire? @box text intro = There appears to be a great deal of confusion surrounding the status of the loyalist cease-fire. Loyalists insist that it is still in effect, but there is a great gap between their words and their actions.

MOSCOW — Anti-nuclear campaigners in Russia are locked in battle with state authorities over plans by the Atomic Energy Ministry to start a lucrative business reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear waste. If the ministry

— Throughout the Palestinian and Israeli left, a serious discussion is occurring over the Oslo Accords and their inability to deliver peace, a Palestinian state or an improvement in life for the majority of Palestinians. Green Left Weekly's ADAM

Last push for agreements as nationalists brace for siegesWith last-ditch efforts under way to avoid a summer of conflict on a par with last year, nationalists in the north of Ireland are preparing themselves for an onslaught

On June 18, the Brazilian government connived with illegal timber traders in Brazil by voting against the inclusion of the hardwood mahogany in a list of endangered species at a meeting of the Convention on Endangered Species being held in Harare,

'Making peace is a shared responsibility' [The following is an abridged version of the speech by keynote speaker Martin McGuinness to the Wolfe Tone Commemoration on June 22.] [Sinn Féin has] faced disappointment, but we have also made

ROME — After the June 14 European march in Amsterdam against the Maastricht treaty, the Italian independent newspaper Il Manifesto explored the differences shown by the left parties in Italy and the absence of the Italian

Another Timorese freedom fighter has fallen. David Alex Daitula, 46 years old, was Falintil deputy chief of staff, regional commander in the Bacau area, and one of the earliest fighters for Timorese nationalism with the

50,000 march to back locked-out newspaper workersWith the support of the national union federation, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), union activists from around the

The Suharto regime and the Burmese military junta By George J. Aditjondro In July, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia will be admitted into the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). As an Indonesian dissident in exile, I wish to

LONDON — The first public meeting of the International Committee Against Disappearances (ICAD) British section was held here on May 21. The use of "disappearances" as a means of intimidation and oppression against indigenous

Pakistani carpet workers strike On June 11, 20,000 members of the United Carpet Industries Labour Union struck in Lahore, closing all 130 workplaces in the city. Red flags were flying outside the occupied factories and above the four strike