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
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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
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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
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Ariel Guides is a leader of the Freedom From Hunger Coalition, which organises 22,000 sugar workers, as well as small farmers, on the island of Negros in the Philippines. He is also a leader of the socialist trade union centre Solidarity of
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Major contributors to US President George Bush's election war chest have been awarded around US$8 billion in contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington-based US Center for Public Integrity (CPI) reported on October 30.
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Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also
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MADRID — The US-convened donors' conference on Iraq opened on October 23 amid questions about US$4 billion in Iraqi oil revenues which the US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not account for. As the US began pleading
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ROME — On October 24, more than 10 million workers stopped work and more than 1 million took to the streets across Italy in a four-hour general strike. Called by the country's three main union federations, the strike was in
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Democratic expectations in Taiwan have surged with President Chen Shui-bian's promotion of plebiscites to ascertain the views of the island's 23 million people on "major social issues". Chen became Taiwan's second popularly elected
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Colombia's right-wing, pro-US president Alvaro Uribe suffered a double setback at the polls on October 25-26. On October 25, voters rejected most components of a 15-point referendum that Uribe said would give him the necessary tools
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LONDON — On October 29, at a crammed public meeting called by the Stop the War Coalition, the call was made for the creation of a new united party to challenge the British Labour Party in the 2004 London Assembly and European
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CHICAGO — The October 25 demonstrations marked the first national US mobilisation of the anti-war movement since the US-led invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco came after the systematic lies of US