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  • Massacres expose 'humanitarian' fraud in Somalia

    "People were running away from the demonstration before the firing even started, including these people here who were hiding behind a pick-up truck, one a small boy. His head was blown off, that's his brain smeared all over the

  • Student-army clash

    Student-army clash YOGYAKARTA — Students on campus of the Sunan Kalijaga State Institute for Islamic Studies demonstrated on June 14 to demand academic freedom, campus autonomy and the withdrawal of a ban on the student newspaper Arena.

  • Dutch youth fight cutbacks

    Dutch youth fight cutbacksTHE HAGUE — The Netherlands government's plans to make youth pay for the recession by slashing f600 million (about $510 million) from student funds and abolishing youth

  • Revolutionary reform in South Africa

    JEREMY CRONIN was interviewed by Green Left Weekly's FRANK NOAKES, in Johannesburg. Cronin is a member of the African National Congress National Executive Committee and a central leader of the South African Communist Party. He is the editor of

  • An appeal from Malaysia's 'forgotten people'

    We are almost half way through the International Year of Indigenous Peoples, but for some Jahai, a Semang aboriginal people in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan, the year is turning out to be a bad one. As a result of

  • Right wing feared Hani would be president

    Right wing feared Hani would be presidentSouth African Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani, assassinated on April 10, was targeted because the right wing believed he was Nelson Mandela's most likely successor,

  • South African election date set

    South African election date setSouth Africa is likely to hold its first non-racial general election next April 27, it was announced on June 3. The African National Congress described the announcement as a vital

  • Jakarta under pressure on Xanana

    By Jana D.K. in Jakarta and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney The Indonesian government is attempting to escape political pressures following the trial of Xanana by creating the false impression that the East Timorese resistance leader has changed

  • The night they shot democracy in China

    Four years ago the Chinese government sent in soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square of students, workers and other citizens who were demanding democratic reform. While the students and citizens sang the "Internationale", the army attacked. Hundreds

  • Philippines indigenous groups oppose geothermal plant

    By Judith A. Pasimio Apo Sandawa is the ancestral home of more than 100,000 Lumad (the indigenous people of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines). It is one of the ASEAN Heritage Sites and is also on the United Nations List of National

  • New SACP leader elected

    New SACP leader elected South African Communist Party deputy general secretary Charles Nqakula has been elected general secretary to replace the assassinated Chris Hani. Nqakula, a former journalist, was a close confidant of Hani. He said he

  • Academics worry about free expression

    Academics worry about free expressionMELBOURNE — National stop-work meetings were organised on May 26 by the Federal Council of Academics, the Union of Australian College Academics, and the Federation of Australian