World

  • FSLN vows to continue struggle

    MANAGUA — The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) has dismissed challenges to Nicaragua's recent elections. On November 22 it formally declared Arnoldo Alemán the next president of Nicaragua and announced the composition of

  • Korean struggles

    Korean struggles General strike called South Korea's two biggest labour organisations, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, have separately called a general strike for mid-December. The calls are

  • Peru: general arrested for exposing death squad

    On November 26, agents of Peru's intelligence service violently seized General Rodolfo Robles Espinoza in Lima, beating him and spraying him in the face with tear gas before forcing him into a vehicle with darkened windows. Robles was then taken to

  • Call for solidarity

    Call for solidarity Roisin McAliskey, daughter of long-time Irish civil rights activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, was arrested in her home town of Coalisland in the north of Ireland in mid-November. After being held in Castlereagh Barracks in

  • Democracy activists organising underground in Indonesia

    Despite the danger of arrest and torture, and the imprisonment of at least 24 of its members, the People's Democratic Party (PRD) is still organising. EDMUND THAMPSON and JILL HICKSON spoke with MARCEL — a National Committee member and chairperson

  • Serbian independent radio jammed

    Serbian independent radio jammed December 2 was the third consecutive day on which the single independent radio station in Belgrade, Radio B92, was jammed during its reports of the huge anti-government demonstrations in the Serbian capital. The

  • Anti-APEC conference looks to regional labour solidarity

    MANILA — What stance should the working people, peasants and poor of the Asia-Pacific region take towards Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the instrument of regional capitalist integration conceived by the Australian Labor

  • Kurdish parliamentarian denied visa

    Kurdish parliamentarian denied visa The Australian embassy in Paris has refused a visa to the deputy speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament in exile to attend a conference at Deakin University in Melbourne. According to a December 1 statement by the

  • Indonesian activists face possible death sentence

    Indonesian activists face possible death sentence Indonesian democracy activists will shortly go on trial for their lives. The chief judge of the Central Jakarta court has announced that the trials of the People's Democratic Party (PRD)

  • Challenge to Mali's males

    WorotanOumou SangaréWorld Circuit through FestivalReviewed by Norm Dixon The West African country of Mali has become something of a music hot spot in recent years. Artists such as Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita and Mory Kanté have

  • Israeli settlements 'destroying peace process'

    Following a November 14 European parliament resolution condemning recent Israeli conduct in the occupied territories, a December 1 Arab League extraordinary meeting has warned that the peace process between the PLO and the

  • French workers resist the austerity drive

    PARIS — From November 8 to 11, the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), France's largest and most influential far left party, held its decision-making conference here. Green Left Weekly interviewed ALAIN KRIVINE, the