World

  • Waste exports endanger Russia

    MOSCOW — Early in March a parliamentary deputy from Orenburg province in the southern Urals contacted Greenpeace Russia with alarming news. Shunted up a side track just outside the town of Svetly were 16 open-topped

  • New trade order to discipline the South?

    As the trade ministers of the world prepare to make the trip to Marrakesh for the final adoption of the Uruguay Round accord in April, each country should be doing its sums. Where has it gained, where has it lost, and

  • Guatemalan health system in collapse

    GUATEMALA CITY — The Guatemalan public hospital system has collapsed as the country's economic, social and political crisis deepens. Those seeking treatment are required to provide their own medicines, bandages and

  • Fascists threaten in Italian elections

    A test of strength between the left and right of Italian politics takes place at the March 27 general election. Two major election blocs will confront one another. On the right, racist and reactionary forces are grouped

  • Final stage in Salvadoran elections

    SAN SALVADOR — One of the jokes told at the left's closing election rally here referred to the big letter "Z" emblazoned on the T-shirted chests of "Zamora for President" supporters. The story goes that when Calderon Sol, the

  • Right seen preparing frauds

    ROBYN MARSHALL, ROBYNNE MURPHY and MARGARET GLEESON are in El Salvador as observers in the March 20 elections. Here they report some initial impressions. To celebrate the winding up of the election campaign, 8000 FMLN supporters filled the Plaza

  • Israeli responses to the Hebron massacre

    VIVIENNE PORZSOLT of Green Left Weekly spoke to Amos Wollin, an Israeli political commentator, on the Israeli response to the massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque. "In large numbers, Israelis have said they understand the murderer", Wollin reported.

  • Violence mars negotiations with Mexican rebels

    Private armies of wealthy landowners in Chiapas state are attempting to block a settlement between the Mexican government and peasant rebels. Round one of negotiations between the government and the Zapatista National Liberation

  • International Women's Day in Guatemala

    International Women's Day in GuatemalaGUATEMALA CITY, March 8 — More than 5000 women converged on central Guatemala City today, stopping traffic everywhere. Many different indigenous women's groups

  • French protest against youth wage cuts

    French protest against youth wage cuts Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and other major French cities on Saturday, March 12, against government plans to abolish the minimum youth "wage". This minimum, about A$400 per month,

  • New solidarity initiative in South Africa

    With South Africa's first democratic election less than two months away, solidarity with the people of South Africa is urgent. MARC NEWHOUSE and ANGIE HARTWIG, two long-time activists in the Australian anti-apartheid movement, have just completed a

  • Trade accord will worsen North-South divide

    In mid-April, trade and commerce ministers from more than 100 countries will sign the Final Act of the Uruguay Round in a glittering ceremony at Marrakesh in Morocco. They will be putting the seal on a seven-year-long