Assistance for Cuba
A group of US citizens is organising medical assistance for Cuba, despite such actions being outlawed under the Torricelli Act, passed last year.
The English-language Cuban paper Granma International reported in its
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Strike-wave in eastern Europe
By Frank Noakes
On the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on
South African link in Belfast murders
By Denis Kevans
Alex Lundy, ex-prisoner and Sinn Fein activist, was shot dead outside the Andersonstown house of Sinn Fein councillor Alex Maskey two weeks ago.
His death bought to 13 the number
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Among many of Russia's self-proclaimed democrats, the usual rhetoric of the need to defend "democracy" against "communist revanchism" was suddenly turned off in mid-May. In its place appeared an embarrassed,
Nicaraguan telethon for Cuba
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The Cuba solidarity campaign held Nicaragua's first telethon on May 14. Thousands of Nicaraguans responded to the broadcasts on the Sandinista Channel 4, and several FM and AM
US gay activist harassed
US gay rights activists say that police and corporate harassment continues of participants in the historic April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian/Gay/Bi Rights.
On the day before the march, gay rights activist
By Jana D.K. in Jakarta
and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court in Dili on May 21. The three judges found him guilty of separatism, rebellion,
Namibian elections seen as warning for South Africa
By Melanie Sjoberg
The experiences of the elections in Namibia provide important lessons for the upcoming process in South Africa, Joe Kapaanda told an Adelaide Politics in the Pub
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — Some day an accounting will be made of the economic damage which Yeltsin's reforms have dealt our country. Even now, people have begun to speak about the moral losses. The group that has suffered most is
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — To the puzzlement of many observers, Russian President Boris Yeltsin during the first weeks after his April 25 referendum held off introducing the "tough measures" through which he had promised to "neutralise" the
On February 26, 1991 more than 700 gold mine workers at Vatoukoula, Fiji, downed tools and threatened never to return to work unless the Australian and New Zealand mine management recognised their union and negotiated on their claims. Twenty-seven
By Norm Dixon
A firm date for South Africa's first non-racial general election is to be set by June 3. After a week of discussions beginning on April 30, representatives of South Africa's key 26 political organisations agreed that a
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