Ten years after he first applied, Kassab Al-Rashid, a prominent member of Committee for Defence of Legitimate Rights, a pro-democracy body suppressed by the Saudi monarchy, is still waiting for a decision on his initial application for asylum in
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Norm Dixon Zimbabwe's authoritarian capitalist government, headed by President Robert Mugabe, has unleashed a massive wave of police brutality and destruction in an attempt to terrorise the country's fiercely anti-government urban working class and
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According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
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Marce Cameron In recent months Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not missed an opportunity to urge his supporters to contribute to a historic debate on the future of the country's Bolivarian revolution. In the multitude of popular
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On May 27, hundreds of garment workers protested on the site of their collapsed workplace, demanding compensation for the injured, and families of workers killed or missing. The nine-storey Spectrum garments factory caved in the dead of night on
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@PARAFLTR = VENEZUELA: Mass mobilisation defends oil industry Roberto Jorquera, Caracas On May 28, at least one million people marched 11 kilometres from the city of Petare to Avenida Bolivar in central Caracas in defence of the state-owned
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On June 1, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that a high-level South Africa defence ministry delegation was due to visit soon. The newspaper explained that the delegation, which would include arms manufacturers, would meet with the director-general
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Doug Lorimer May was the second deadliest month for the US occupation forces in Iraq so far this year, with 72 US troops killed. This took the total number of US troops killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 to 1657, according to a count
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On May 22, the Scottish Socialist Party announced that Rosie Kane, an SSP member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, has been invited to Cuba. Rosie will speak at an international conference, "Against terrorism, for truth and justice", to be held
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Ralph Nader & Kevin Zeese The last few weeks have not been good ones for the war effort. Despite being given every huge military budget he has requested by Congress, US President George Bush can no longer credibly claim to be winning the war. ABC
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Doug Lorimer By a 55% majority, French voters rejected the draft constitution for the 25-country European Union in a national referendum held on May 29. The decisive "No" vote occurred despite the "Yes" campaign having the support of all of
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On May 30, the revolutionary socialist party Lalit nominated 32 candidates across all 20 constituencies for the upcoming general election. Opposing the constitutional requirement that for their nomination to be accepted, each candidate must list