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11 June 2008 THE GOVERNMENT'S proposal to increase the period that "terrorism suspects" can be detained without charge from 28 days to 42, comes before parliament as we go to press, writes Roger Shrives. 11 June 2008 THE BATTLE for control of oil resources is threatening the very future of Sudan. Tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes and the town of Abyei has been destroyed in fighting between the Northern government's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), writes Naomi Byron. 11 June 2008 Permanent occupation: AHEAD OF November's presidential election, the Bush administration is attempting to establish 50 permanent US armed bases in Iraq... 11 June 2008 AFTER THE final state primaries, Barack Obama has effectively secured the Democratic nomination for the presidential election in November. The fact that the contest was between an African-American and a woman symbolises deep social changes in the US... 4 June 2008 AFTER THE last two weeks of street conflict between pro-government and opposition armed militias, workers in Lebanon are now facing two 'choices': either a sectarian civil war or 'civil peace' with a ruling 'coalition', writes Tamir Mahdi, Beirut. 28 May 2008 Last week's failed terrorist attack in Exeter caused a wave of shock and surprise in Devon and Britain as a whole, writes Jim Thomson, Devon Socialist Party. 28 May 2008 Postal workers trampled on the anti-trade union laws 7 May 2008
THE SRI Lankan government is engaged in a war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north of the country, writes Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party, (USP - CWI, Sri Lanka). 7 May 2008
To me Anti-Flag have always been the quintessential anti-war band. In September 2001 they were half-way through recording an album when the 9/11 events... 16 April 2008
THIS YEAR marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, who was assassinated on 4 April 1968 while supporting striking Memphis sanitation workers. Will Soto, from Socialist Alternative in the USA, writes. |