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2 May 2007
Nigeria: The Nigerian government, fearing mass protests against its blatant rigging of the April 14 state and April 21 national elections, attempted to clamp down on any sign of active opposition at the May 1 rallies
26 April 2007
Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce
EVEN BY the standards of Nigeria's previous elections this April's state and national elections were a complete farce....
12 April 2007
Zimbabwe: State thugs crackdown on protests
Economic meltdown pushes masses to the edge: AN ACUTE political, economic and social crisis is gripping Zimbabwe. With mass unemployment, hyper-inflation and crumbling services, Zimbabwe's trade...
4 April 2007
Darfur: Deported asylum seekers tortured and murdered: AN INVESTIGATION by the United Nations (UN) in 2005 accused the Sudan-backed Janjaweed militias of carrying out the mass murder of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan...
7 February 2007
Darfur - another failure of Western 'conflict resolution'
OVER THE last three years, between 200,000 and 400,000 people died in the Darfur conflict, in western Sudan...
1 February 2007
BETWEEN APRIL and July 1994 nearly one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the Rwandan government and its Hutu militias. ...
25 January 2007
Workers brave regime's bullets
Guinea general strike: OVER 40 people have been killed by security forces since the trade unions launched a general strike on 11 January in the west African country of Guinea....
18 January 2007
Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder
"THE MOST dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush's latest revised Iraq strategy...
11 January 2007
Ethiopia invasion throws Somalia further into crisis
THE LONG-suffering Somali people, after enjoying six months of relative stability, have once again seen their country thrown into chaos...
11 January 2007
The Lagos oil pipeline tragedy was avoidable
Nigeria letter: IMMEDIATELY AFTER the devastating oil pipeline explosion on Boxing Day in Lagos, Nigeria, in which 265 mainly poor people were killed, the Democratic Socialist Movement, (DSM - the Socialist Party's counterpart in Nigeria) i...
2 November 2006
Big Bucks for Starbucks - nothing for small farmers
GLOBAL COFFEE chain Starbucks is the McDonalds of the coffee world with hundreds of shops throughout Britain and the world. Its annual revenue is £3.2 billion.
28 September 2006
Class unity is the only answer
NOTHING COULD more clearly demonstrate the toothless nature of the United Nations (UN) than its ineffectual posturing over the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan, writes Keith Pattenden.
7 September 2006
Lebanon: Can the UN bring peace?
AFTER MUCH wrangling, a United Nations (UN) force has been assembled to act as a 'buffer' in the 20-mile corridor between the Israel-Lebanon border and the Litani River. Most people will probably breathe a sigh of relief, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
29 June 2006
New regime in Somalia a setback for US imperialism
WARLORDS WHO ruled the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, for 15 years have recently been driven out by a coalition of Muslim groups backing the 'Islamic Courts Union', writes Kevin Parslow.
22 June 2006
Feature: THE US is the world's only superpower yet, despite its overwhelming military might, in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia it has become embroiled in situations that it cannot control. Peter Taaffe writes.
22 June 2006
Soweto uprising 1976: The powder keg ignites
THIRTY YEARS ago, South Africa's vicious apartheid regime was shaken by an heroic uprising started by thousands of school students in the black 'township' of Soweto near Johannesburg...
24 November 2005
AROUND 500 people joined the demonstration called in Manchester by unions and asylum support groups...
24 November 2005
The Constant Gardener directed by Fernando Mereilles
Adapted from the novel by John Le Carré...
15 September 2005
South African workers gatecrash capitalists' party
South Africa: IN THE biggest strike wave since 1996, South African workers recently went onto the offensive demanding a share of the economic boom...
7 July 2005
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