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  • 'Fighting apartheid, we are all hawks!'

    Essop Pahad, 54, first became politically active in the Transvaal Indian Congress in the late 1950s and was elected to its executive in the early 1960s, after which he was detained and then banned. He is a member of the Central

  • Polish workers fear foreign takeovers

    Polish workers fear foreign takeoversWARSAW — when a high-level US mission arrived here recently to determine why there is not more foreign investment in Poland, there was a single recurring complaint: the investors felt

  • British-US tensions over Cuba trade ban

    British-US tensions over Cuba trade banLONDON — The British government is refusing to cooperate with US attempts to tighten the economic embargo against Cuba. Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)

  • Move to impeach Brazilian president

    Move to impeach Brazilian president RIO DE JANEIRO — A formal request for President Fernando Collor de Mello's removal from the presidency was presented to the national Congress on September 1 by leaders of Brazil's press and bar

  • Desperate need for Nicaraguan aid

    An emergency situation continues in the regions of Nicaragua devastated by a tidal wave on September 2, according to reports from the Augusto Cesar Sandino Foundation (FACS). Thirty-seven communities and villages, and 16,913 people, were

  • Non-Aligned back Cuba

    Non-Aligned back Cuba JAKARTA — Washington must end its hostile actions against Cuba, says the Non-Aligned Summit's final declaration. The document, approved by the leaders of the movement's member nations on September 7, states the 30-year

  • Human rights scandal: US death penalty

    In June Amnesty International secretary general Ian Martin addressed the annual general meeting of the US section of Amnesty in Los Angeles. The following is an excerpt from his speech on human rights in the US, reported in the September issue of

  • Letter from an East Timorese prisoner

    The following letter from a prisoner in East Timor, arrested after the Dili massacre in November 1991, was dated June 23 and recently received in Australia. Only today I'm able to answer your letter sent through H. For I was very busy. As you

  • Cambodia's years of chaotic change

    Mark Deasey has worked with Quaker Service Australia in Cambodia for the past four years. Back in Australia, he talked to Green Left Weekly about the changes he has witnessed and his view of the peace process. "When I

  • Pressure to recognise Fiji mine union

    In a remarkable turn of events, the recently elected government of Fiji, led by coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka, is applying pressure on the Australian-owned Emperor gold mine's management to recognise the Fiji Mine Workers Union. The

  • Philippines human rights abuses on the increase

    Dr Aurora Parong has been a close observer of the human rights situation in the Philippines under three regimes — Marcos, Aquino, Ramos. Rather than moving into medical practice after her graduation from the University of the Philippines, she

  • A US plan to dismember Iraq?

    Is the "no-fly" zone south of the 32nd parallel in southern Iraq a Bush re-election stunt or part of the US establishment's long-term political and economic plans in the Middle East? Dr Bob Springborg, associate professor of