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  • 90,000 starve in Bougainville camps

    90,000 starve in Bougainville camps Papua New Guinea's National newspaper reported on May 10 that more than 90,000 people in 35 "care centres" on Bougainville are at risk of starvation after food ran out on the weekend of May 6-7. These PNG

  • Palestinian authority begins to rebuild

    "Today is a historical day in Palestine", Radwan Abu Ayyash, chair of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, told Green Left Weekly on May 19 as the last Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza and Jericho. Under the Oslo

  • Constitutional crisis in Croatia

    A constitutional crisis has been precipitated in Croatia by the growth of organised opposition to the regime of Franjo Tudjman and the desertion of parliamentary members of the ruling Croatia Democratic Forum (HDZ) to form a

  • What Washington is aiming for in Haiti

    The United Nations Security Council, at US direction, has announced an economic embargo of Haiti. President Bill Clinton has hinted broadly at military invasion if the embargo is not sufficient to force withdrawal of the military rulers who overthrew

  • Indonesia 'willing to talk' to East Timorese

    Indonesia 'willing to talk' to East TimoreseA new development in diplomacy concerning East Timor took place at the fourth round of UN-sponsored negotiations between the foreign ministers of Indonesia and Portugal on May 6 in

  • Russian elections fraudulent — but not to worry

    MOSCOW — Imagine that in your country, every sixth vote supposedly cast in recent national elections was shown to have been fraudulent. Imagine, further, that the same expert study showed the constitution to have been

  • Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words

    "Gusmao's bullets are always his thoughts." — Agio Pereira, East Timor Relief Association One year ago, on May 21, the East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian

  • Burma — Democracy Denied

    Burma — Democracy DeniedBurma — Democracy Denied is a striking collection of photographs and text. The people of Burma today suffer under an iron-fisted military dictatorship; there are extensive human rights violations;

  • A new life in Loma Chata

    ERIC EARLEY spent three weeks working in the community of Loma Chata in the foothills of the Guazapa mountains, 60 kilometres from San Salvador. He writes here of the people's attempt to rebuild their community and their lives after the signing of

  • Sexwale declares war on poverty

    JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress began formally to take the reins of government in South Africa during the past week. On May 7, Tokyo Sexwale was sworn in as premier of the province of

  • Under construction: the global empire

    Dr Susan George is well known for her extensive writing on the causes of hunger in the Third World and the social and economic implications of the debt crisis (A Fate Worse than Debt, How the Other Half Dies, Ill Fares the Land). She is a researcher

  • Celebrations as Mandela takes over

    JOHANNESBURG — "The people of South Africa have spoken ... They want change! And change is what they will get. Our plan is to create jobs, promote peace and reconciliation, and to guarantee freedom for all South Africans. We will