World

  • IRAQ: Ramadan offensive: resistance growing stronger

    The November 2 missile attack on a US Army Chinook troop transport helicopter — which left 16 GIs dead and 20 badly wounded — has finally forced leading officials in Washington to acknowledge that the US is involved in a

  • ECUADOR: Environmental campaigner assassinated

    On November 4, just days after a Ecuador court began hearing a lawsuit against ChevronTexaco for damages caused in the Amazon rainforest since the 1970s, Angel Shingre, a well-known peasant leader and human rights campaigner, was assassinated in the

  • BRITAIN: Postal workers beat New Labour

    LONDON — On November 3, 30,000 striking members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) won a spectacular trade union victory against Royal Mail management and its New Labour masters, when the postal bosses acceded to almost

  • EUROPEAN UNION: Citizens on file

    BRUSSELS — Soon, the 450 million citizens of the European Union will have their facial images screened and fingerprints taken if they request a new passport. Additionally, anybody from a non-EU state seeking entry or requesting

  • UNITED STATES: Ashcroft's war on activism

    In April 2002, Greenpeace activists boarded a commercial ship off the coast of Florida. The ship was transporting mahogany illegally exported from Brazil's Amazon rainforest. The activists unfurled a banner stating: "President Bush,

  • CUBA: Record vote against US blockade

    NEW YORK — On November 4, the UN General Assembly voted by a record majority (179 in favour, three against and two abstentions) to demand an end to the four-decade-long economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on

  • UNITED STATES: Temporary work grows

    SACRAMENTO — In President George Bush's USA, 122,000 people became temporary workers in the last nine months. Temporary workers are less likely to have a steady pay-check and health-care benefits than permanent workers. Nine

  • CANADA: Amnesty International 'censors' Venezuela documentary

    A group of organisations are campaigning in support of the award-wining documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, after the Canadian Pacific Region Chapter of Amnesty International (AI Canada) decided to withdraw it from the November 6-9

  • FRANCE: Appeal for unity of the anti-capitalist left

    The following appeal was adopted, by an overwhelming majority, at the 15th congress of the French Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), held on the outskirts of Paris from October 30 to November 2. It was translated by Murray Smith. Together, we

  • IRAQ: The initial stages of a guerrilla war

    Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening

  • ARGENTINA: The catastrophe of GM soya

    BY ANN SCHOLL& FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA Argentina was once the world's granary. Now starving children haunt the villas miseria — shanty towns — and cartoneros (unemployed) families roam the streets looking for leftovers to eke a living from. Over