On March 5, more than 10,000 people marched from the slums of of Port-au-Prince into the city to demand the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Waving Haitian flags, and pictures of Aristide, the protesters condemned the French and US
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SOUTH AFRICA: Car workers put solidarity before jobs South Africa's National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) is opposed to the proposed relocation of DaimlerChrysler's C-Class Mercedes production to plants in the Eastern Cape in response to trade
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Omar Hamed, Auckland "Fuck 12 dollars, we want 20", rapped Unite union member and hip-hop MC Fyzykl to around 1000 students and workers in Myers Park on March 18. The occasion was the Supersizemypay.com concert — the Big Pay Out — which
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On September 10 the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration at the state palace in Jakarta, demanding that the government set a standard national wage. The action involved more than 100 people from several ABM-affiliated labour
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Murray Smith, Paris As campaigning for the March regional elections moves into top gear, the familiar odour of corruption is once again wafting across the French political scene. Ex-prime minister Alain Juppe, president of the governing Union for
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Eric Ruder With the meltdown of the US occupation of Iraq grabbing the headlines, the Bush administration has been reduced to trumpeting Afghanistan as a model for Iraq. But if Afghanistan represents a victory to the Bush administration, that only
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Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas Comandante William Izarra was a key member of the revolutionary organisation that Hugo Chavez, now Venezuela's president, led inside the armed forces, the MBR-200 (Movement for a Bolivarian Republic-200). Later he
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Rohan Pearce Since the January 28 testimony of David Kay, the retired head of the US "weapons inspections" team in Iraq, before the US Senate's armed services committee, the war makers in Washington, Canberra and London have been scrambling to
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Stephen Darley, Adelaide We all know that the invasion of Iraq wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or how bad Saddam Hussein was, or any other of the threadbare excuses that have been exposed as barefaced lies. It was about
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According to Doug Rokke, the former director of the US Army's depleted uranium project, the US's delivery of 100 GBU 28 laser-guided bunker-buster bombs with depleted uranium warheads to Israel for use in its brutal offensive against Lebanon will
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Julian Coppens, London "Nothing other than a mighty new political force has been born!", bellowed George Galloway in his closing speech to more than 1500 activists, who assembled on January 25 at Freedom House in London for the founding
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Doug Lorimer On July 22, US troops attacked the offices of the Shiite-based Mahdi Army militia in the town of Musayyib, 64 kilometres south of Baghdad, "killing 15 militiamen in a three-hour battle", Associated Press reported. AP also reported that