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Walter Yoia, Buenos Aires On March 24, more than 100,000 people moved toward the Plaza de Mayo, made famous by the mothers of the disappeared who, along with unions, human rights organisations, students and people from all walks of life, demanded

Max Lane Several prominent Indonesian historians have come under criminal investigation for writing an official history textbook in 2004 in which they no longer insisted that the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) was the mastermind of an attempted

Doug Lorimer Ironically, the 82nd Airborne Division's brutal suppression in April last year of peaceful Iraqi protests in Fallujah, a city of 250,000 residents 45 kilometres west of Baghdad, sparked the beginning of a mass-based Iraqi armed

The following is an edited extract from the speech delivered by Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, to the United Nations on September 19. During the republic, we [indigenous people] were discriminated, marginalised. They never took

Doug Lorimer Following Spain's announcement on April 19 that it would be pulling its contingent of 1300 troops out of Iraq over the following two weeks, the UN-authorised multinational force which the Spanish troops were part of has started to

Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than

Alex Miller In March, Scottish Socialist Party MSP Frances Curran launched a campaign aimed at securing legislation in the Scottish Parliament that would provide a daily free, nutritious school meal for all children in Scottish schools. The SSP

Thousands of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activists demonstrated in Lahore on December 6 against the imperialist onslaught of privatisation and the World Trade Organisation, on the eve of the WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Trade union

Saul Landau Someone once asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization. "It would be a good idea", he replied. Democracy in Latin America might also prove nice if the United States would allow it to occur. Traditionally, when

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Ninety workers employed as security guards at the University of the Oriente, mostly from the Cumana campus in the state of Sucre, protested outside the National Assembly on June 29 over the refusal of the

Oscar Olivera is the leader of the Federation of Factory Workers of Cochabamba. He is well-known in Bolivia and internationally for his role as a leader of the Coalition in Defence of Water in the heroic victory of the people of Cochabamba against

Robyn Marshall & Alison Dellit On March 23, the constitutional chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court overturned a ruling of the court's electoral chamber regarding the validity of 876,017 signatures submitted as part of a campaign to unseat