One million Indian and Pakistani troops continue to face each other across the 700 mile long "line of control" on Kashmir’s disputed border as they have done since last December’s attack on the Indian Parliament in which 14 died.
A turbulent panorama
15 June 2002, by ,Alvaro Uribe Velez was elected President of Colombia on May 26, 2002. In an article written before the election, Ricardo Ferrer and Mauricio Lazala examine the background to Velez’s victory.
Preparing for Florence
15 June 2002, byFollowing the success of the second Word Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January of this year, the first European Social Forum (ESF), will take place in Florence, Italy from November 7-10, 2002. The movements involved in its preparation met in Vienna on May 11-12, 2002, with a full agenda.
Them or Us
15 June 2002, byAt the time writing, the political crisis in Argentina has intensified and no one knows how much time remains in the life of the present government. President Eduardo Duhalde is unable to arrive at a decisive course of action, and with the fall of Economics Minister, Jorge Lenicov Remes, a debate has opened up that embraces the full spectrum of economists who support the ruling class over what will take the place of present administration, in face of the melting away of its political authority.
From alternation to the need for an alternative
15 June 2002, byAs the dominant force in Senegal for 40 years, the Parti Socialiste (PS - a member of the Socialist International) consciously built a party-state on the basis of implementing the diktats of the imperialist powers. The model of socialist management was marked by the arrogance of the party leaders, mass corruption, repression of opponents and radical union leaders and the restriction of civil liberties.
Being a woman in Senegal
15 June 2002, byIn my country, women suffer very much from illiteracy, the super exploitation of their labour power in the workplace and deep-rooted cultural prejudices. They represent 52% of the total population of the country but are excluded from the formal system of employment where they represent less than 10%.
Intensified contradictions and people’s resistance
15 June 2002, byPremier Zhu Rongji’s Government Work Report, delivered to the People’s Congress this year revealed acute problems in the Chinese society and economy.
Jedwabne is everywhere
15 June 2002, by’Neighbors’, a book by Jan T Gross, has been the subject of intense debate in the media and on the street in Poland; a debate which has revealed the depth of anti-Semitism in a country where Jews have been a tiny minority of the population since the Second World War, not just because of the Nazi genocide but also as a consequence of anti-Semitic campaigns which led many of the survivors to emigrate, in 1945-1948, 1956-1957 and 1968.
World Cup Campaign for Trade Union Rights in Korea
15 June 2002, byINTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT has received the following statement from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU):
Empire and Revolution
15 June 2002, byEmpire is a paradox. An overly long (478 pages with notes and index), often abstruse intellectual exercise, Empire would appear to be a work destined to obscurity-to be read, at best, by small groups of left-wing intellectuals ensconced in academia. However, the book has attracted enormous attention, not only in the academy, but also in the mainstream press and among anti-capitalist and global justice activists in both the US and Europe.
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