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  • New direction for South African unions

    JOHANNESBURG — National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) members are currently discussing a completely new approach to collective bargaining in the metal, motor and auto manufacturing sectors. The essence of the new approach

  • China People's Congress continues 'reforms'

    The Eighth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 15 in Beijing. The NPC is China's constitutional equivalent to a "parliament". The agenda includes the approval of a new government line-up and the passing

  • 'No democracy in Tonga without a fight'

    'No democracy in Tonga without a fight' One of Tonga's royal-appointed ministers has warned that it is unrealistic to expect that the South Pacific island kingdom's nobles would hand over power to the people without a fight. Minister

  • Bougainville MP feared killed

    Bougainville MP feared killed Amnesty International has called on its supporters to petition the Papua New Guinea government over what Amnesty fears has been the illegal killing by PNG security forces of a prominent Bougainvillean.

  • French military cooperation with Fiji

    French military cooperation with Fiji Fiji and France have reached agreement on a military training exchange program, Pacnews News Service has reported. Radio Fiji and Radio New Zealand, monitored by Pacnews, reported that the acting

  • ANC demands full truth on nuclear weapons

    South African President F.W. de Klerk admission that South Africa developed six Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs during the 1970s confirms charges made by the African National Congress and the anti-apartheid movement over the past

  • Referendum new focus for Russian conflict

    MOSCOW, March 30 — Russians will have the chance on April 25 to vote in a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's "shock therapy" economic policies. In other questions in the parliament-sponsored poll, voters will be asked

  • The killing of Herbert Anaya Sanabria

    Herbert Anaya Sanabria, president of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES), was gunned down by "unknown" assassins in the Zacamil neighbourhood in San Salvador on October 26, 1987. The

  • Eritrean referendum on independence

    On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed struggle against the Ethiopian government. In April the Eritrean people will freely express their right to self-determination in a referendum on

  • Israel escalates terror in Gaza

    Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza strip has reached terror proportions in the last three months. Tikva Honig-Parnass writes in the March issue of News From Within, "Since the 'left government' took over the reins,

  • Hesse elections: gains for left and right

    FRANKFURT — Anna Seifert, a Green member of the Frankfurt city parliament, talked to Green Left Weekly about the local elections in the state of Hesse on March 7. Smaller parties of the left and right achieved swings,

  • Panama's Censors back down

    Panama's Censorship Board gave in to international pressure from human rights and media groups, journalists and other prominent individuals on March 18 by lifting its ban on the film The Panama Deception. The retreat came only hours before the