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  • WEST PAPUA: Two shot dead by police

    On May 15, two West Papuans were shot dead by police outside the Wamena court. Serpi (Sodema) Hubi and Mokanineak Kossy were among a group of protesters demonstrating outside the court house in support of a local man facing corruption charges, where

  • VENEZUELA: Landowners and paramilitaries terrorise farmers

    Robyn Marshall, Caracas The peasants of the Venezuelan countryside are being terrorised. Three peasant leaders were assassinated on April 23, in the state of Portuguesa. All of the leaders — Jose Rodriguez, Gabriel Paredes and Juan Baptista —

  • VENEZUELA: US isolation plans frustrated

    Stuart Munckton Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez carried out a successful two-week international tour, beginning on July 21, to Argentina, Russia, Belarus, Iran, Qatar and Vietnam, frustrating efforts by the US government to isolate

  • NEW ZEALAND: Alliance goes back to the roots

    In the last few years, the NZ Alliance has undergone big upheaval. Green Left Weekly's Sibylle Kaczorek spoke to Mike Treen, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the NZ Alliance, when he was in Australia for the Socialist Alliance's third national

  • SRI LANKA: Army kills civilians

    TamilNet reported on August 2 that an eight-year-old boy was killed by Sri Lankan Army artillery fire in a church in Muttur where more than 600 Tamils were seeking refuge after fighting broke out on August 1 between the SLA and the Liberation Tigers

  • HAITI: The ravages of an unnatural disaster

    Floods and mudslides killed more than 1000 people in one weekend in north and north-west Haiti as Tropical Storm Jeanne brushed by the nation on September 18-19. Tens of thousands are left homeless and destitute, their shops, livestock and crops

  • Women in Afghanistan: rhetoric vs reality

    The severe oppression of women in Afghanistan suddenly became a issue when Washington decided to invade the country in 2001. But how much has improved? According to human rights activist Dr Nazir Gul, a former UN officer in Kabul, Afghan women are

  • CHILE: Strike against Australian mining giant

    Some 2000 workers at the world's largest copper mine — Escondida, majority-owned by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton — have been on strike since August 7 to demand a 13% pay rise. BHP Billiton, despite increased profits from high copper

  • PALESTINE: A visit to the settlements

    Kim Bullimore, West Bank As you pass through the West Bank, you can't help but notice the illegal Israeli settlements dotted high up on the hills. They are easily identifiable: red tiled roofs, Western-style houses, barbed wire, checkpoints and

  • In brief

    UNITED STATES: Bush lifts Libya trade sanctions US President George Bush lifted his country's trade embargo on Libya on September 20. Most of the sanctions were suspended in April, following Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadhafi's December

  • IRAQ: Get out now, before we are thrown out

    John Pilger Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to the heartland of Mesopotamia, and Baghdad, and the Shia south. I have seldom felt as safe in any country. Once, in the

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez's revolution in foreign policy

    Stuart Munckton Israel is "killing innocent children and whole families". "They dismantled the legitimate government of Palestine, and thwarted tremendous efforts to achieve peace and establish a Palestinian state", Venezuela's socialist President