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As is almost always the case, when you come expecting fire, you usually get smoke. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was expected to come from Tyrone with plenty of fire, and a bit of brimstone too, but her appearances

Mission for Batwa Pygmies in Rwanda An Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation fact-finding mission arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, on October 3 to begin a three-month investigation into the situation of the Batwa (Twa). The mission is

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,

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

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

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

Campaign against sanctions An International Appeal to End Sanctions against the Iraqi People is being coordinated by former US attorney general Ramsey Clarke and others in the International Action Centre in New York. The

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have lost a desperate gamble. Despite the sickening hypocrisy which portrays Iraqi troops in Iraq as a "threat" and US troops half way around the world as "peacekeepers", the

Already last month in Jakarta, the Suharto dictatorship had increased surveillance and repression in the lead-up to the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) heads of state meeting. When visiting human rights,

In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market

Kamalayan, a newly formed student organisation in the National Capital Region (Metro Manila area), held its 1st congress September 9-11. CARLA GORTON from Green Left Weekly spoke to JUDY ANN CHAN, newly elected secretary general of Kamalayan, about

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