Republicans to convene Florida legislature to impose Bush electors
The Republican leadership of the Florida state legislature is convening a special session on Friday, December 8 to discuss appointing a slate of 25 presidential electors. The extraordinary decision was...
View ArticleMore letters on the US presidential election
The following is a selection from among the many letters we have received recently on the US election.
View ArticleEuropean Union summit in Nice shrouded in controversy
The European Union summit beginning today in Nice has long been considered crucial for determining the future development of Europe. It is set to initiate the accession of further member-states...
View ArticleIMF presses for more job destruction in South Korea
Despite an estimated annual economic growth rate of 9 percent for this year, the South Korean economy is far from healthy. Consumer demand is set to fall or remain stagnant, corporate bankruptcies will...
View ArticleDomino Sugar strike in Brooklyn enters eighteenth month
Almost 300 members of International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1814 went on strike on June 15, 1999 against the Domino sugar refinery in Brooklyn. The strike was provoked by company demands...
View ArticleAt least 11 dead in building collapse in southern China
At least 11 people were killed and 32 injured when a shopping centre collapsed on December 1 in Chiling village located on the outskirts of Dongguan, a densely populated industrial city neighbouring...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Setback for ANC in local elections
Although the African National Congress (ANC) has won a majority of the popular vote in this week's local elections, the result represents a considerable setback for the government of President Mbeki....
View ArticleMumia Abu-Jamal supporter jailed for speech at Republican National Convention...
A prominent supporter of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been sentenced to 90 days in prison for parole violation by a federal magistrate in Philadelphia. Judge Arnold Rapoport sent Clark...
View ArticleBush attack on voting rights continues in arguments before Florida Supreme Court
The seven-judge Florida Supreme Court on Thursday heard lawyers for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and Republican candidate George W. Bush argue whether Florida Circuit Court Judge N....
View ArticleAFL-CIO rally in Tallahassee: unions offer no strategy to fight denial of...
The AFL-CIO union federation organized a rally at the state capitol in Tallahassee Wednesday to oppose the moves by Republican leaders in the state legislature to override the November 7 election and...
View ArticleBritain: Labour government outlines law-and-order election platform
The Queen's speech on December 6 opening parliament announced the Labour government's legislative programme for the forthcoming year. It was widely interpreted as signalling a general election in...
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indian postal workers begin national strike
View ArticleExecutions continue in Texas and Florida: Electoral conspirators George W....
The psychopathic personality. A person characterized by emotional instability, lack of sound judgment, perverse and impulsive (often criminal) behavior, inability to learn from experience, amoral and...
View ArticleAbsentee vote cases provide evidence of Republican vote-rigging in Florida
Two Leon County Circuit judges in Tallahassee issued decisions Friday refusing to throw out thousands of absentee ballots cast in two Florida counties. The ballots were challenged by local Democratic...
View ArticleGerman radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 1
This is the first of a two-part article. The second part will be posted on Monday, December 11.
View ArticleBritish government exploits death of 10-year-old boy to mount law-and-order...
The recent death of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor in London, who bled to death after being stabbed in the leg, is a tragedy, especially for his family. The Nigerian boy died on a north Peckham estate,...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court ruling: right to vote at center of US election crisis
With the Florida Supreme Court decision ordering a hand count of tens of thousands of ballots across the state, the basic issue in the US election crisis has been thrust to the foreground. That issue...
View ArticleImpeachment drive against Taiwan president suspended
In the face of popular opposition and divisions within its own ranks, the Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party has been forced to suspend plans to impeach and potentially remove Taiwan's president,...
View ArticleStriking dock workers shot dead in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi police shot dead four striking dock workers and wounded more than 100 on December 5 during a demonstration in the port city of Mongla, 160 kilometres southwest of Bangladesh's capital...
View ArticleAnger at decision not to prosecute police officers for killing unarmed London...
The family of Harry Stanley, shot dead by armed police in Hackney last September, have expressed anger at the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) not to charge any of the officers involved....
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