World

  • PALESTINE: UN assembly applauds Israeli war criminal

    Jamal Juma, Jerusalem Twenty-three years ago, on September 17-19, 1982, at least 2000 Palestinians in the Beruit refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila were brutally massacred under the guidance of then Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon. Today this

  • VENEZUELA: Battle for the universities

    Kiraz Janicke, Caracas In recent months, the introduction of a new higher education law in Venezuela has sparked a number of demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez's government by rectors and students from the national autonomous

  • IRAQ: US commanders admit losing 'war of attrition'

    Doug Lorimer While 5000 US troops, using armour, artillery and warplanes, continued a three-week battle with Iraqi resistance fighters for control of the city of Tel Afar, 420 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, officials of Washington's puppet Iraqi

  • HAITI: Imperialist occupation wields deadly force

    Roger Annis, Vancouver Eighteen months after an imperialist invasion that served the overthrow of the elected government of Haiti, a ferocious repression continues to rain down on the people of that country. The three invading countries — the US,

  • UNITED STATES: Bush under pressure to accept Cuban aid

    Kerry Smith Act Now to End Racism and War (ANSWER), one of the two main anti-war coalitions in the United States, issued a call on September 3 for US voters to demand that President George Bush accept socialist Cuba's offer, first made on August

  • CUBA: Lowest infant mortality rates in Latin America

    According to a report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, announced on September 7, Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America — 5.6 deaths per thousand in 2004 — putting it on a par with developed countries. The

  • UNITED STATES: Ballot initiative on Iraq deployment

    In Boston on September 7, Massachusetts attorney-general Tom Reilly certified a ballot initiative to require the governor to withhold further National Guard deployment to Iraq and to use his office to recall all Massachusetts National Guard troops

  • MALAYSIA: Police attack residents, demolish homes

    A bloody confrontation erupted on September 7 in Kampong Saujana Shah Alam, when four truckloads of riot police clashed with local residents who had formed a human chain to prevent the demolition of their homes. Seventeen people were arrested,

  • NEW ZEALAND: Neither Labour nor National to win majority

    Dean Parker, Auckland According to a Herald-DigiPoll poll, released on September 9, the incumbent Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark and the opposition National Party are running neck and neck in the lead-up to the September 17 New

  • UNITED STATES: New Orleans: Barbarity of US capitalism exposed

    Barry Sheppard Any person in the world who is not a stone cold racist or sociopath cannot help but react with visceral disgust, outrage and revulsion at the criminal response of the US government to the catastrophe of New Orleans; and to feel deep

  • TONGA: Public servant strike wins

    The Public Service Association signed an agreement with the Tongan government on September 3, ending a 47-day-long national strike by public sector workers that brought the country to a standstill. The government agreed to pay the workers wage rises