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Garment workers revolt

Ken Davis — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

The garment industry (which uses imported textiles) has been the fastest growing production sector in the 1990s. About 40 factories, employ over 20,000 workers. Last year, exports (mainly to Europe) brought in $90 million, or 30% of the national income. Wages make up only 6% of the sale price of these garments.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Cambodia

A Bitter Partnership is Breaking Down

Ken Davis — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

Cambodia's weak coalition government is falling apart and political violence is increasing. National elections are scheduled for November 1998, but local elections have been delayed indefinitely. As Ken Davis explains, the economy is a disaster, with most of national income coming from illegal logging, smuggling, and foreign aid programmes.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Cambodia

Another day in Castlereagh

1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

On 4 May the Sunday Business Post carried a major article by the British journalist and television producer Lin Solomon. The piece exposes three of the crucial weaknesses in the German warrant which seeks the extradition of Roisin McAliskey in connection with the IRA mortar bombing of a British Army Barracks in Osnabruck on June 28 1996.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Ireland

The Congo challenge

Denise Comanne, Éric Toussaint — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

Laurent Kabila says his new government will prioritise the social needs of the population, while respecting market forces and the global neo-liberal economic context. Eric Toussaint and Denise Comanne evaluate the challenge facing the new regime.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Democratic Republic of Congo, Debt

The People are Ready for Change

Jean Baptiste Sondji — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

Interview with Congo-Zaire's new Minister of Health, Jean Baptiste Sondji.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Democratic Republic of Congo

More Than Blair Will Give

Roland Rance — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

The defeat of the Tory government after eighteen years in power, and the election of Tony Blair's New Labour party, will lead to major changes in British politics. But most of these changes will not be thanks to the new government, but in spite of or in response to it.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Britain

Fourth International declaration

Fourth International — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

The Fourth International expresses its militant solidarity with the insurrectional movement which has shaken Albania.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Albania

The Lima embassy massacre

Fourth International — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

The Fourth International shares the indignation of all revolutionaries and democrats at the savage operation which the Peruvian government launched against the MRTA militants inside the Japanese embassy in Lima.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Peru

Imperialist contradictions

Denise Comanne, Éric Toussaint — 1997-06-03T00:00:00Z

The double defeat of French and Belgian imperialism is cause for celebration.

- IV289 - June 1997 / Democratic Republic of Congo