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  • IRELAND: Socialists jailed in bin tax battle

    DUBLIN — Thousands of people are taking a stand against the introduction of a new household refuse-collection tax. After thousands of citizens refused to pay the tax, the government passed laws allowing local councils to stop

  • UNITED STATES: 100,000 greet freedom riders

    NEW YORK — As many as 100,000 people rallied in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens on October 4 to demand an amnesty and better working conditions for undocumented workers. The demonstration was the climax of the Immigrant Workers Freedom

  • UNITED STATES: Prison rape law enacted

    On September 4, US President George Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act. While the law does little more than provide funding for research and some counselling, it is at least a belated recognition that the massive US

  • RUSSIA: Will opposition crisis spur renovation?

    MOSCOW — There has been heated discussion in the camp of the Russian opposition this northern Spring. The crisis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) led to the emergence of "renovating" tendencies in its

  • SOUTH AFRICA: COSATU: from independence to subordination

    JOHANNESBURG — As the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (COSATU) eighth national congress, held September 15-18, was winding down, a senior leader, perhaps inadvertently, summed up: "We can only hope that these issues

  • UNITED STATES: 'We are workers, we demand respect!'

    ATLANTA — Thousands of immigrant workers and their supporters marched and rallied here September 29 to demand equal rights and the right to hold a driver's licence. The protest was part of the national Immigrant Workers Freedom

  • BRITAIN: 100,000 condemn Tony 'B-liar'

    Around 100,000 protesters filled the streets of London on September 27 to oppose the US-led occupation of Iraq and to demand that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government pull British troops out of Iraq. There was a sea

  • BRITAIN: Hutton inquiry finishes hearings

    The inquiry into the apparent suicide of David Kelly, an advisor to the British defence ministry who was involved in compiling British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 2002 dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction,

  • INDONESIA: Poor farmers protest

    Hundreds of poor farmers from West Java belonging to the Party of United People's Opposition (Popor) demonstrated outside the electoral commission on September 25. The farmers were protesting the commission's decision to give in to pressure from

  • Immigrant workers stage 'freedom ride'

    SAN FRANCISCO, September 20 — Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of the United Farm Workers, walks at the head of the march which began the "Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride". Marchers are leaving from cities across the west coast of the US and

  • BOLIVIA: Security forces massacre 'gas war' protesters

    COCHABAMBA — A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as trade unionists, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the country's gas reserves to the United States. In Bolivia, a country whose