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  • Censored rap

    Censored rap@box text intro = The ability of the ideas of the extreme right to penetrate France's state institutions was dramatically demonstrated in Toulon last year. Kool Shen and Joey Starr, singers with the rap group

  • East Timorese killed in election violence

    East Timorese killed in election violenceIndonesian authorities have confirmed that at least 13 East Timorese were killed in the lead-up to voting in the Indonesian general elections on May 29. Dili police chief, Colonel

  • Roisin McAliskey gives birth

    Roisin McAliskey gives birth @box text intro = As Roisin McAliskey gave birth to a healthy 2.6 kg baby girl on May 26, international pressure redoubled on the British and German governments to quickly release mother and child. Roisin has

  • Hong Kong's return to China: winners and losers

    June 30 will be the last day of Britain's 155 years of colonial rule in Hong Kong. A majority of Hong Kong's people are keen for the end of a long period of humiliating subjugation. Around 98% of the population is ethnic Chinese,

  • Sinn Féin responds to Blair

    The following is an abridged version of a speech by Sinn Féin president GERRY ADAMS in response to the statement on Ireland made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on May 16. As Tony Blair began the long Labour climb to power, he showed

  • International news briefs

    Turkish forces massacre Kurds More than 100 civilians killed when Turkish government forces launched an attack on the city of Irbil in the Kurdish part of northern Iraq on May 16. Heavy artillery was used against the hospital of the Kurdish Red

  • Energy crisis tests Russian miners' movement

    MOSCOW — When the Russian government fails to pay wages and slashes state subsidies and investment programs, it runs a definite risk: that energy and water supply systems will cease functioning, and that the collapse of

  • Mustapha's death

    Mustapha's death France's crackdown on immigrants has devastating consequences for its victims. The story of Mustapha Diffalah is such a case. The November 13 judgment fell like the guillotine. Mustapha had applied for the tribunal to overturn

  • 'Suharto will have to jail all the youth'

    Green Left Weekly's Melanie Sjoberg spoke to People's Democratic Party (PRD) activist Wilson, while waiting in a holding cell at the South Jakarta Court on May 26. The trials of PRD activists arrested since the Suharto government's July 27 crackdown

  • Indonesians reject Suharto's election fraud

    Two days after the elections in Indonesia, interim official results are giving President Suharto's Golkar party 74% of the vote, the Islamic United Development Party (PPP) about 23% and the puppet Indonesian Democratic Party

  • Le Pen: Pauline Hanson's big brother?

    PARIS — With the National Front (FN) registering up to 20% in polls and in control of four local councils, its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen recently boasted, "We have become a movement to be reckoned with, not just in France, but

  • International news briefs

    Kurdish rebels hit back at Turkey Kurdish fighters were reported on May 19 to have struck back against Turkey's military assault on Kurds in Iraq. The Kurdish rebels struck in south-east Turkey, blocking a highway and attacking government