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Kamal Fadel On January 30, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1523, which extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until April 30 to give the government of Morocco, which

Steve O'Brien, Durban Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to attend the Nairobi World Social Forum next January in Kenya. While some smaller regional meetings have been held, this will be the first time that the WSF has come to Africa in such a

Neville Spencer Left-leaning presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has reiterated his call for a campaign of civil disobedience against electoral fraud, after the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) agreed only to a partial recount of

Alex Miller On August 4 at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party MSP and former national convener of the party, won a defamation case he had brought against the right-wing tabloid newspaper the News of the

Kim Bullimore "The responsibility for the military operation rests on my shoulders as prime minister. I have no intention and do not wish to share this responsibility with another", Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the Knesset, Israel's parliament. An

Venezuelanalysis.com reported on April 4 that Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez gained an 82.7% approval rate in the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis.From Green Left Weekly, April 12, 2006. Visit the

Peter Gellert, Mexico City Following presidential elections widely viewed as marred by fraud, Mexico's political crisis not only shows no signs of being resolved, but in fact is intensifying almost daily. In the six weeks since the July 2

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas A "dangerous situation" is being created in Venezuela after a series of much-publicised murders in recent weeks, according to Carolus Wimmer, a deputy to the Latin American Parliament and prominent member of the

Peter Gellert, Mexico City A massive civic movement in the southern state of Oaxaca has placed what was a local conflict onto the centre stage of Mexican political life. In May, Local 22 of the National Teachers Union — which in Oaxaca has a

Vannessa Hearman Major Alfredo Reinado and 56 other men escaped Dili's Becora Prison on August 30. On that day, a report by David O'Shea and John Martinkus on SBS's Dateline alleged links between President Xanana Gusmao and military defectors

Kerryn Williams Millions of students and workers marched on March 28 against the First Employment Contract (CPE) law, which allows employers to sack workers aged under 26 years without reason during the first two years of their job. The law was

The following open letter to Canadian PM Stephen Harper was issued on September 8 by Ken Georgetti president of the Canadian Labour Congress the largest trade union federation in Canada representing 3 million workers. In May Harper's minority