Voting ended on May 28 in Peru's presidential runoff following a week of confusion and protest during which the opposition candidate withdrew and called a boycott, and all the election monitoring groups refused to observe the vote. President Alberto
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LAHORE, Pakistan — On May 26, Rawalpindi police arrested well-known railway worker leader and president of Labour Unity Rawalpindi, Bashir Botter. The police are searching for seven other railway workers, and for the Labour Party Pakistan's (LPP)
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE & KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Tasmania's Labor premier Jim Bacon has rejected calls for state public servants to have access to three months' paid maternity leave. The calls came after state education minister Paula Wriedt's
BY GEORGIA CLARK
SYDNEY — "The first Mardi Gras in 1978 was a political protest at which many came onto the streets to fight for queer rights, and experienced police brutality and vilification in the media simply for fighting for our right to
UNITED STATES: Elian's return home a step closer
UNITED STATES: Elian's return home one step closer
A ruling by a US appeals court on June 1 may mean that kidnapped six-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, forced to remain in the Unites States, may
WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jail
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has called for the immediate resignation of the state's Aboriginal affairs minister, Kim Hames, after he told a
Teach-in provides motives for September protests
BY JO BROWN
MELBOURNE — The fact that the World Economic Forum was amongst the architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provides reason enough to protest against it, 100 participants at a
BY JULIA HALDANE
BRISBANE — The Brisbane Feminist Collective held its first public meeting here on May 30, attended by 50 people. The topic of discussion was women and reproductive rights. The collective grew out of the International Women's
Motives! Chantes de Lutte (Songs of Struggle)TactikollectifLCR-TactikollectifAvailable from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) Review by Stan Demidjuk
Motives!, in French, means to be or become motivated and on this CD it means "Mobilise!".
UNITED STATES: Appeal from a militant unionist
CALIFORNIA — John Reimann was a member of the Carpenters Union for almost 30 years. He has just been expelled for life from his union. Reimann served as recording secretary for Local 713 of his union
The following is abridged from an account of the situation in Mindanao distributed on May 29 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines. The situation in Mindanao, and the Philippines as a whole, is becoming worse, politically and
Students to converge to save the environment
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — Students, activists and environmentalists from around the continent will converge on Griffith University here on July 3 for Australia's largest student environment
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