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1. ANC leader: 'Violence is state sponsored'

   a meeting of ANC supporters on August 5. He told the gathering that the terrible violence sweeping the ... to set a date for South Africa's first non-racial election. Agreement has been reached on broad ... principles which would underpin the new constitution. There is also agreement on the establishment of the ...

2. New Orleans 2006: music, hope and love in the ruins

   evacuees are facing imminent eviction from their apartments because FEMA has decided to renege on promised ... T-shirts on sale in the Bourbon street shops feature big arrows pointing outwards from New Orleans: ... with the NOLA fleur de lis and emblazoned "Make Levees, Not War!" We parted with Johnny James ...

3. United States: BP’s ‘cure’ is killing in the Gulf

   aren’t good. “Many have double bonds, and many are on the EPA’s [Environmental Protection Agency] danger ... list. This is an unprecedented environmental catastrophe.” Commercial fisher and Vietnam War veteran ... dispersants. “I was with my friend Albert, and we were both slammed with exposure”, Matsler said on August 5. ...

4. Nepal: The people resist elite coup

   correspondent in Kathmandu, Ben Peterson, said on the struggle that has erupted in Nepal. "This is ... was commenting on the large number of daily demonstrations across the country to demand respect for ... coalition government. The UCPN-M, which had led the coalition government until its members walked out on May ...

5. TURKEY: Behind the EU window dressing

   — for example it operates on Leninist democratic centralist principles — but it also differs in many ... emphasis on the Kurdish question — which distinguishes us from other parties on the socialist left in ... broadcasts on state TV of around one hour per week. These are mainly nature documentaries — nothing about the ...

6. Costello's budget: bribes, crumbs and deception

   development" of a new Magna model, but the GST on company cars was removed. Industry estimates that this will ... claims it's not immediately on the table. However, the budget's main fire was aimed squarely at ... wealthier seniors. Before the budget, all men over 65 and women over 61, were entitled to a tax-free ...

7. UNITED STATES: Racism and the stolen vote

   a total of 9,904." A Washington Post story on December 3 reported that one out of three black voters ... aren't allowed to vote. No proof was ever provided on who was or was not a felon. The aim was to get ... slaveholding states and those based primarily on farming and wage exploitation of working people. The original ...

8. Thousands rally for a free East Timor

   By Arun Pradhan Thousands of people rallied across Australia on November 12 to commemorate the ... Action). The rally concluded with a message from Xanana Gusmao, who said, "The struggle continues on ... In Darwin, Tom Kelly reports that activities commemorating the massacre began at 8am on Friday with ...

9. Castro: the Third World must take the helm

   conference on April 12. Never before has humanity had such a formidable scientific and technological ... and poverty, development and underdevelopment. We are all passengers on the same vessel, this planet ... on which we all live. Trifling minorities are travelling in luxurious cabins furnished with the ...

10. Amnesty slams Australia's human rights abuses

    part of governments to on the one hand embrace NGOs, to say "look at these fine men and women ... community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his ... and we knew that behind the dismantling of this most graphic symbol lay the end of the Cold War. With ...

11. Subverting Australia's labour movement

    reason the Foundation was formed". It went on: "To a man [no women here] the union officials ... Government. In the early 1980s, I was researching material on the Australian labour movement. It was soon ... reported that some of them even supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In an ABC interview in 1982, one ...

12. Bertolt Brecht: the man who never was

    by Dave Riley As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the ... achievement". But much of the enthusiasm extended to his work inevitably catches on a snag — Brecht was ... political allegiance has annoyed the critics no end. Some, like John Willet — the author of many books on ...

13. The Pope And The Poor

    allied with Reagan in the fight against Sandinista Nicaragua, it condemned Bush's Gulf War; defender ... of human rights against dictatorships, it is trying to impose a ban on abortion in Poland, against ... power within the church. This is shown by his particular virulence on matters of sexual morality and in ...

14. Solidarity closes government's umbrella

    investors are complemented by taxes on state enterprises that keep wage rises to 60% of the rate of ... individuals and as a group. "Now we have decided to look after the basic interests of people on the ... dates back to before the second world war. Unionists at PILMET explained that in their factory and ...

15. What would a liveable city look like?

    beings. However, on the ground and actually living and working in this wonder, things are quite different: ... those of the mass of working people who live and toil in them. Today the destructive effect on the ... life-threatening pollution and a vast network of roads and car parks that scar the urban landscape. People live on ...

16. Beastie Boys Adam Yauch — maker of music that broke the rules

    modern music, however, is immense. After Yauch's death from cancer at the age of 47 on May 4, ... giving to music the diversity that it claims today. “I'm proof of that. They helped me get put on ... , and I was on their first tour...” The Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore punk group. Yauch, aged ...

17. Sports for a few

    the reach of most poor people. A recent survey in England has shown that emphasis on competitive ... was happy to be there on behalf of Speedo, the swimwear manufacturing company, and other sponsors. ... countries with high gross domestic product (GDP) or totalitarian countries are on top. But India, with all ...

18. Cuban revolutionary's case for international socialism

    role of peasants, the landless, Indigenous peoples, women, environmentalists and others. But his ... 1989-91. This led to a "strengthening of imperialist power, interference, and intervention on a world ... two main factors that led to the collapse. On the economic front, he quotes Panamanian theorist Nils ...

19. Reinventing the Labor Party

    work forces, the rapid influx of women into paid employment and the massive increase in participation ... Economic rationalism is a political project of the ruling class to put the burden of change on the working ... place at present is grotesque exaggeration. Technological change, on its own, never has and never will ...

20. 'Globalisation' and the capitalist austerity drive

    corporations is increasingly directed toward branches of industry with high levels of spending on fixed ... same report matter-of-factly states: "Inequalities between men and women, between ethnic groups, ... the early 19th century up to the eve of World War I (exports grew from 3% of world industrial output ...

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