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  • ISRAEL: Ploughshares activist to be deported

    Kim Bullimore, Israel Angie Zelter, a well-known non-violent peace and human rights activist from Britain, is currently being held by the Israeli authorities in a cell at Ben Gurion airport, Israel. Zelter, a founding member of the Trident

  • COLOMBIA: Who is committing the abuses?

    James J. Brittain For more than four decades, Colombia has been in the grip of a civil war between the people and the state. Through this time, the state has capitalised on laws and decrees that have enabled the formation of paramilitary forces.

  • Pilger reveals: British-US conspiracy to steal a nation

    On October 7, British ITV showed a documentary by renowned journalist John Pilger that used recently released documents to show how the British government had conspired with the United States to expel the Chagos Islanders and turn their home

  • BOLIVIA: Mass movement on ascendancy again

    Frederico Fuentes Facing extradition proceedings to stand trial in Bolivia for the deaths of 67 people during the October 2003 popular uprising that forced his resignation, former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada told the October 22

  • GUATEMALA: 10,000 honour 'governments of revolution'

    Federico Fuentes "Guatemalans, let us honour the revolution and defend our national sovereignty", social movement leader Miguel Angel Sandoval stated at a rally to remember the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of dictator Jorge Ubico. Sandoval

  • AFGHANISTAN: US-backed Karzai elected president

    Jenny Francis Afghans voted for a new president on October 9, and hoped for a better future. After the events of that day, however, there is a growing fear that their hope is misplaced. While the official results were yet to be declared by

  • IRAQ: US plans another Fallujah bloodbath

    Doug Lorimer US commanders have indicated they will launch an all-out assault on the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah shortly after the November 2 US presidential election. In preparation for this assault, on October 26 the US military tightened its

  • In brief

    IRAQ: US bombing kills 100,000 civilians About 100,000 Iraqi civilians — half of them women and children — have died since the US-led invasion in March 2003, most of them as a result of air strikes by the US-led occupation forces. The

  • UNITED STATES: Unionists mobilise for anti-war march

    Leslie Feinberg, New York "We have called on the anti-war and peace movements to join us on October 17 and they are coming by the tens of thousands", Million Worker March leader Clarence Thomas explains, "because the war in Iraq, just like the

  • In brief: BENIN — General strike shuts down country

    The small African country of Benin ground to a halt on October 19, as public sector workers began a three-day strike for a 20-30% pay increase, better pensions and lower university fees. The strike, called by four out of the country's five trade

  • In brief: GERMANY — 40,000 protest General Motors

    Nearly 40,000 people protested across Germany on October 19, trying to stop General Motors from axing one-fifth of the European work force, and possibly closing a plant. The biggest protest was in the north-western town of Bochum, home to one of GM's