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  • MEXICO: Child labourers fight back

    In Hidalgo, Mexico, a group of young, mostly female workers as young as 13 years of age have been illegally locked out for protesting their unsafe, unjust working conditions (including child labour violations, forced pregnancy testing and appalling

  • SOUTH AFRICA: The frustrating decade of freedom

    Patrick Bond, Johannesburg On April 27, 1994, the racist apartheid system was smashed. One person, one-vote democracy and deracialisation of government was achieved as a result of the mass struggle conducted largely under the 72-year long

  • TAIWAN: Election result hangs in the balance

    Eva Cheng Despite winning 50.11% of the votes cast in Taiwan's March 20 presidential election — a big improvement from the 39.3% that won him the presidency in 2000 — incumbent President Chen Shui-bian's re-election remains in doubt. Along

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Police brutalise, charge AIDS workers

    Karen Fredericks, Port Moresby A violent raid by Port Moresby police on an alleged brothel on March 11 has galvanised women's groups, community and church organisations and aid workers in a new coalition to call for a public and independent

  • THAILAND: Unions fight privatisation

    Nick Fredman, Bangkok Marching behind a banner reading "Thailand is not a company Thaksin", tens of thousands of Thai workers protested in the Thai capital on March 9 against the plans of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinauatra's government to privatise

  • VENEZUELA: Thousands march in GLBT pride parade

    Michael Fox, Caracas Thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people marched in this year's GLBT Pride parade in Caracas on July 2. This marks the sixth year in a row that Venezuela has held a gay pride parade. The colorful and

  • UNITED STATES: 'Anyone but Bush' brigade attacks Nader

    Barry Sheppard, San Francisco Prominent consumers' rights advocate Ralph Nader's decision to stand in the November US presidential election as an independent is freaking out Democratic Party and its liberal and leftist hangers-on. While claiming to

  • INDIA: Mumbai bombings 'mindless carnage'

    In response to the bombing of seven trains in Mumbai on July 11, which killed some 200 people and wounded hundreds more, the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) made the following statement. The CPI(ML) condemns in the strongest words the

  • UNITED STATES: Drug companies withheld data on side effects

    Rachel Evans On February 2, a US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) advisory committee warned doctors to use great caution in prescribing anti-depressant drugs to children, citing an increased risk of suicide among those taking the drugs. The FDA is

  • DENMARK: Socialists arrested for solidarity

    Kerryn Williams On February 20, four members of the Left Socialist party (VS) were arrested and three others had arrest orders issued against them. The activists were accused of violating the section of Denmark's criminal code relating to support

  • VENEZUELA: Army chief warns of US 'war threat'

    Jim McIlroy& Coral Wynter, Caracas General Raul Isaias Baduel, commander-in-chief of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (FAN) and a key figure in restoring President Hugo Chavez to power after the April 2002 US-backed coup, warned that "One scenario that