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  • Greens do well in US vote

    Greens do well in US vote Candidates of the Green Party USA won 11 seats in local elections in November, according to latest figures compiled by the party. Eighty Green candidates ran for national, state and local offices in 13 states. They

  • Hard times for Russian greens

    Among the best-known of the younger leaders of the Russian environmental movement, SERGEI FOMICHOV is co-president of the League of Green Parties and of the radical environmental group, the Rainbow Keepers. He was interviewed in Moscow by Green

  • Crackdown in Timor

    Crackdown in Timor The Indonesian military has unleashed a reign of terror in East Timor since the arrest of Fretilin leader Xanana Gusmao in Dili last year. Jose Ramos-Horta, spokesperson for the East Timorese resistance, said on

  • Israel blocks peace in the territories

    BASMA ABOU-SHARAR, a media worker for the Intifada Committee in Amman, Jordan, was in Australia late last year to bring information on events in the Israeli-occupied territories on the West Bank and in Gaza. MIRIAM TRAMER of Green Left Weekly met

  • Bougainville rejects 'blatant lie' on civilian deaths

    A claim by Papua New Guinea's minister responsible for Bougainville, Michael Ogio, that the Bougainville Revolutionary Army has killed 17 civilians involved in restoring services to southern Bougainville is a "deliberate and

  • Report cites lack of human rights in Indonesia

    The human rights situation in Indonesia in 1992 did not improve, according to the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH). The foundation, one of Indonesia's foremost non-governmental organisations, held a press conference

  • UNITA plunges Angola into renewed civil war

    Thousands of Angolans have been killed since National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) contras launched a military offensive following their decisive defeat by the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of

  • Indonesian marines attack students and farmers

    Students from major campuses around Java and farmers from the Blangguan area of East Java were arrested on Saturday, January 23 during protest action against the local marine base. A marine battalion which wants the area is

  • A green left emerges in Wales

    CYNOG DAFIS was elected to the British parliament in April 1992. A member of the radical nationalist Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), the former school teacher ran in alliance with the Green Party. Dafis spoke recently with Green Left Weekly's FRANK

  • Invasion of Somalia a boon for big oil

    Four giant US oil companies stand to make a killing in Somalia if US troops can pacify the strategic African nation, the Los Angeles Times has revealed. The report further undermines US claims that the invasion was a

  • Supporting the poor against the rich

    MANAGUA — The new situation in Nicaragua is producing alliances unimaginable a few years ago. As the government of Violeta Chamorro sides increasingly with the rich against the poor, former members of the Nicaraguan

  • Far right stymied in Nicaragua

    The defeat of the Sandinista government by the US-backed UNO coalition in the 1990 elections has left Nicaragua in a very unusual situation. The former government continues to play a large role in political life, and