On June 12, up to 10 students were killed when security forces shot protesters in Conakry. The students were demonstrating against the cancellation of pre-university exams after teachers joined a nationwide strike against price rises for fuel and
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Kiraz Janicke Last year University of Western Australia student Joshua Taafee travelled to Israeli-occupied Palestine to work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The principle role of the ISM in Palestine, Taafee told Green Left
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On November 3, Friends of the Earth (FoE) responded to the Company Law Reform Bill, tabled in the House of Lords the previous day, by accusing the government of putting the interests of big business before those of people and the environment. FoE,
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On January 31, 20,000 health workers joined a strike by doctors seeking higher pay. More than 3000 members of the Medicos Pro Salario physicians' guild have been on strike since November 14. The Health Workers Federation (Fetsalud), which covers
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On June 2, Green Left Weekly's Peter Boyle caught up with Matt McCarten, the secretary of New Zealand's Unite union, who was visiting Sydney. Like his union, which is widely acknowledged to be revitalising the trade union movement across the Tasman,
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The United Nations has gone on record for the second time urging the United States to lift its 30-year economic blockade of Cuba. The vote on November 3 in the General Assembly showed a strong world majority against the US policy: 88 countries voted
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Doug Lorimer On January 26, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported an increase in cases of encephalitis — a viral disease that causes swelling of the brain — among children in Baghdad over the preceding
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Federico Fuentes, Caracas Since the 1998 election of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's people and government have embarked on an ambitious struggle to transform their society — in which a majority of the population is poor — to one that
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On January 31, Military Families Against the War led a protest and vigil in London's Parliament Square following the 100th death of British soldiers in Iraq. Similar vigils were also organised in 100 towns across Britain. Rose Gentle, whose son
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The following statement by Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the People's Democratic Party, was issued on June 1. As a result of the earthquake that struck Yogyakarta and parts of Central Java on May 27, some 5800 people have died and 20,000 have
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Stuart Munckton Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has attempted to implement policies that benefit the working majority via redistributing the nation's oil wealth. Despite being the fifth largest supplier of oil in the world, when
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Kim Bullimore In a stunning victory, the Islamic Palestinian resistance group Hamas claimed 76 of the 132 seats in the second Palestinian Authority (PA) election on January 25. This was the first election for the Palestinian Legislative Assembly