Loyalist cease-fire
Six and a half weeks after the Irish Republican Army laid down its arms and declared a cease-fire the Unionists of Northern Ireland have followed suit.
On October 13, the Combined Loyalist Military Command,
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TIM MARSHALL is a university student in San Francisco and a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity. In Sydney in July to attend the Resistance conference, he was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by REIHANA MOHIDEEN. What is it
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The theme of the recent Chris Hani memorial tour of three leading South African labour leaders was "Labour and Women in the New South Africa". Charles Nqakula, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and ANC national executive
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MADRID — "50 años bastan! FMI-BM asasinos!" (50 years is enough! IMF-WB are assassins!) was the chant that resounded through the streets of the Spanish capital on October 2 as an estimated 20,000 demonstrators marched to
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Mandela asked to help Nigerians Earthlife Africa, at the request of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, is urging South African President Nelson Mandela to make representations to the Nigerian government for the release of Ken
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President Ramos of the Philippines looks set to push through the implementation of RA7716, the Expanded Value Added Tax Law, by the end of October. Progressive and left organisations are stepping up activities in opposition to
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US to back Three Gorges Dam? A coalition of 15 environmental, development, church and human rights organisations has called on the Clinton administration to oppose the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam planned for China's