DURBAN — On February 8, the third day of their strike, 2000 University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) staff marched in defiance of management's ban on mass action on campus. All four unions at the university called the action.
Staff at UKZN are on
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Trevor Ngwane is a well-known campaigner against the ANC government's privatisation and commercialisation of basic services, like power and water. Ngwane lives in Pimville and thanks to an electricity connection provided by grassroots campaigners, he
Percy Ngonyama
South African President Thabo Mbeki's "State of the Nation" address, delivered on February 3 in Cape Town at the highly militarised opening of parliament, was a further blow for the country's poor masses.
While recommitting to
In the January 25 elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) won a landslide victory. The US and the European Union have stated that unless Hamas renounces violence, disarms and changes its 1988 charter
Amnesty International sent a letter to the US State Department on February 6 condemning the treatment of five Cubans held in the US for seven years on espionage charges. Known as the Cuban Five, the men were gathering information on right-wing
Bruce Marlowe and Marcel Cameron
Australian interest in Venezuela is growing, boding well for the forthcoming tour of Dr Carolus Wimmer, Venezuelan MP to the Latin American parliament (click here for details).
Partially spurred by the United
The government of the Czech Republic has sent a letter to the Communist Youth Movement (KSM) announcing its intention to ban the organisation. The letter justified the move by claiming the KSM's goals interfere with those of Czech political parties,
Eva Cheng
On January 26, after a seven-year battle, the Seoul High Court awarded US$85 million in compensation to a third of South Korea's 20,000 known victims of the chemical weapon Agent Orange (AO) used by the US military during the 1961-73
Brokeback Mountain
The movie review of Brokeback Mountain in GLW #654 contains a common error by pro-queer reviewers. The review suggests that men who are behaviourally bisexual are "really" gay and that both men need to grow up in order to be
Merhdad Valipour
Up to 500 bus drivers in Iran's capital were arrested on January 27 in an attempt by the Iranian authorities to pre-empt strike action called for January 28 by the 9000-member Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.
Doug Lorimer
Following two years of intense lobbying by the US government, an emergency meeting of the governing board of the UN's Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution on February 4 requesting IAEA director-general
HAVANA — On February 3, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation awarded Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez the Jose Marti International Award, for his contribution to Latin American and Caribbean unity and the
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