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  • More delays on redeployment

    More delays on redeploymentMiddle East International's Graham Usher has reported that the Israeli government now supports only "partial redeployment" of its troops in the occupied territories, for

  • Consultation by Zapatistas

    Consultation by Zapatistas The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions

  • Economic rifts undermine US-Japan military pact

    The drastically changed balance of forces and increasing contradictions between US and Japanese capitalism have cast a serious doubt on the future of the US-Japan Security Treaty. This pact has played a central part in the

  • Bosnians demand an end to the arms embargo

    "End the arms embargo" was the main demand of a demonstration of 6000 Bosnians and their supporters in Melbourne on July 23 to protest against the war in Bosnia. Speakers included representatives from the Labor and

  • Environmental disaster shuts down Ukrainian city

    MOSCOW — On June 29, a flash flood overwhelmed a large sewage treatment plant near Kharkov, Ukraine's second-largest city. Sewage backed up, choking equipment and putting the plant out of action. Raw waste began pouring

  • Gonzalez implicated in Basque murders

    Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez knew of the activities of state-sponsored death squads which murdered dozens of Basque refugees in the 1980s, according to a senior politician who oversaw the death squads'

  • Dissident author receives literary award

    Dissident author receives literary award Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of Indonesia's foremost authors, was chosen on July 19 to receive this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work in journalism, literature and creative communications, and

  • Democratic Socialists: End the arms embargo!

    Democratic Socialists: End the arms embargo!The United Nations should lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, turn over the weapons of the UN "peacekeepers" to the government of Bosnia and get out of the country,

  • Palestinian-Israeli peace process founders

    The latest deadline for Palestinian elections and Israeli redeployment from occupied Palestinian territories, July 25, has passed without any agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian National

  • East Timorese youths arrested and tortured

    East Timorese youths arrested and torturedOn July 24, activists from the newly formed organisation Indonesian Pro-democracy Movement and Maubere People's Independence (SPRIM) informed Green Left Weekly that

  • Philippine left exposes 'state of the people'

    President Fidel Ramos opened the 10th Congress on July 24 with the executive's traditional "state of the nation address" in a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. At the same time, 80,000 people

  • Japanese government punished for air pollution

    Japanese government punished for air pollutionIn a landmark court ruling on July 5, the Japanese government and its Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation were ordered to pay 65 million yen to 18 victims — some of