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  • 'Labor power' Philippine-style tests multinational

    MANILA — Workers at Telefunken Microelectronics Philippines (Temic) started to stage their own version of "people power" during the four-day anniversary of the EDSA revolution from February 22. The EDSA revolution is the popular

  • Swaziland union leaders freed

    Swaziland union leaders freed@box text intro = As the pro-democracy general strike in Swaziland is set to enter its second month, workers celebrated the release of four senior leaders of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions on

  • Protests hit opening of Niketown

    SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of demonstrators chanted "Just don't do it!" at the opening of a Nike super-store in the main shopping area here on February 22. Nineteen protesters were arrested for blocking the door to the three-story

  • Weeds could develop resistance to Roundup

    Weeds could develop resistance to Roundup The evolution of pesticide resistance plays a key role in keeping farmers on the so-called "pesticide treadmill" — a cycle in which farmers feel compelled to move on to other chemicals as older pesticides

  • Zaire rebels tighten 'tourniquet' around Kisangani

    The anti-Mobutu rebellion in eastern Zaire has spread south into the strategic Shaba province — source of much of Zaire's copper, cobalt, diamond and gold wealth — and west towards the central African country's third largest city,

  • 5000 at risk from AIDS in PNG

    5000 at risk from AIDS in PNG AIDS may kill more than 5000 people in Papua New Guinea by the year 2000, according to a report released in Port Moresby on February 14. The report, by the United Nations Fund for Children and the PNG government,

  • Russian defence workers strike as production collapses

    MOSCOW — During 1996, Russia's Ministry of Defence Industry reported in January, output in the country's defence factories fell by a further 27.1% to a mere 12.8% of its 1991 level. That's not so bad, you might say — every

  • Scottish Socialist Alliance plans campaigns

    Last year Scottish Militant Labour combined with other forces on the left to create a new, broader vehicle for socialism in Scotland — the Scottish Socialist Alliance. National secretary of the alliance ALLAN GREEN explains why socialists in

  • No change on East Timor as oil starts to flow

    A number of major oil projects in the Timor Sea have recently been approved by the Howard government. On February 14, BHP Petroleum and partners (Petroz, Santos and Inpex Sahul Ltd.) received permission to develop the Elang-Kakatua oil

  • Appeal for Irish prisoner

    Amnesty International issued an urgent action demand last week on the case of Irish prisoner Roisin McAliskey. McAliskey, seven months pregnant and in bad health, is being held in a British prison awaiting extradition proceedings by

  • Swaziland democracy strikers hold firm

    Swaziland democracy strikers hold firmMass meetings of striking Swaziland workers in the vital sugar and forestry industries voted on February 16 to continue a general strike into its third week. The strikers, organised by the

  • The legacy of Deng

    Deng Xiaoping has been acclaimed by politicians, business figures and other "respectable" commentators around the world as the "architect" of China's "modernisation" following the announcement of his death on February 20. They hailed