By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — International outrage is spreading following the February 6 arrest of Russian environmental activist Alexander Nikitin on charges of "betraying the motherland by espionage". A former naval captain, Nikitin was employed in
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By Eva Cheng As the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese occupation draws near, speculation is growing whether there will be new outbursts of pro-independence protests there. On March 10, 1959, Chinese troops went into the
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By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — US-Cuba relations came tumbling down along with the two Miami-based planes shot down over Cuban airspace on February 24. Although the US State Department had repeatedly warned the anti-Castro Cuban-American group
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By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — Around 20,000 workers representing some 300 factory-based unions attended the first regular congress of the socialist labour centre BMP (Solidarity of Filipino Workers), held here on February 21. Elected unanimously by
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ANC minister calls for limits on human rights A senior member of the ANC-led government of national unity, justice minister Dullah Omar, has called for key sections of South Africa's current interim constitution that protect individual rights to be
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By Norm Dixon US President Bill Clinton on February 8 signed into law the Telecommunications Reform Act. Tied to the bill is another law which contains sweeping restrictions on the use of electronic communications called the Communications Decency
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The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) has reported that Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Nigerian oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, has been arrested in Lagos and is being
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US pilots have been violating international law by entering Cuban airspace for many years. Since 1994, there have been at least nine incursions, according to Cuban authorities; after each, protest notes were lodged with the United States Interests
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JACKIE GRUNSELL is a member of Militant Labour in Sheffield. She was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by WENDY ROBERTSON. Can you tell me about the situation with racism in Britain and the campaigns that Militant has been running against it? One of
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By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — The 10th anniversary of the EDSA rebellion, which brought down the US-backed dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986, was marked by protests in Metro Manila on February 23. The protests were spearheaded by the
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By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
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By Sean Lavis GLASGOW — More than 300 people crammed into City Hall on February 10 for the founding meeting of the Scottish Socialist Alliance, a coalition of left parties, groups and independent activists. Speakers from various left backgrounds