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Julian Coppens, London Four hundred people attended the second annual conference of the anti-war Respect coalition in London on November 19-20, including 350 delegates. The conference followed a year of unprecedented successes. The left gained

El Salvador's right wing has stepped up intimidation with the death squad murders of four FMLN members in one week. On October 27, just two days after FMLN leader Francisco Veliz was shot while taking his toddler to a day care centre, two FMLN

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the original convictions of the Cuban Five on August 10, overturning a unanimous ruling one year earlier by a three-judge panel of the same court, which found that the hostility in Miami towards supporters of

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

Mike Krebs, Vancouver The crisis on the Kashechewan native reserve in northern Ontario has once again placed the brutal social and living conditions of indigenous people in Canada onto the centre stage of politics. On October 14, Health Canada, the

Doug Lorimer On August 4, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" in the largest foreign show of support for Lebanon's Shiite-based Hezbollah resistance fighters

Rohan Pearce "Tonight, Iraqi security and coalition forces kicked off offensive operations to eliminate the terrorist and insurgent safe haven in Fallujah and to restore control to the Iraqi government", US General George Casey told a press

Barry Sheppard, San Francisco Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader named long-time activist Peter Miguel Camejo as his vice-presidential running mate at a press conference in Washington, DC on June 21. The announcement was covered by

Norm Dixon Since Oscar Temaru was elected president of Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia) in June 2004, he has infuriated the Pacific country's colonial masters in Paris. The furore over Temaru's July 28 leaking of a letter confirming that the French

Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising during the Second World War, has accused the conservative religious broadcaster Radio Maryja of "xenophobia, chauvinism and anti-Semitism" and has called on Prime Minister

A Workers Charter political movement was launched at an Auckland conference, attended by more than 100 activists, on October 22. A draft charter (see <http://workerscharter.org.nz&#062;) was endorsed and will now be taken around the country for

Up to 10,000 people, including veterans carrying photos of US soldiers killed in Iraq, march in San Francisco on June 5 to demand an end to the occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Haiti. Simultaneous anti-occupation marches attracted up to 7000