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The world was stunned when in the April 2002 Presidential elections in France, the birthplace of Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité, the fascist demagogue Jean-Marie Le Pen beat the ‘left’ social-democratic candidate, Lionel Jospin, into third place in the first round. In the second and final round, which takes the form of a run-off between the two … [Read more…]

by Comrade Prachanda, Chairman CPN (Maoist) Today, on 13 February 2002, it’s been six years and entering the seventh since the historic people’s war was initiated under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A period of merely six years is not a long one in the process of the revolutionary transformation of … [Read more…]

For all his bravado and a massive use of brutal force, Sharon is no nearer extinguishing the raging inferno of the Palestinian Intifada at the end of a whole year in office than was his predecessor, Ehud Barak. His bankrupt policies having failed utterly, his government was left with the simple choice of either coming … [Read more…]

Having just returned from the occupied Palestinian city of Ramallah, we can report to you that the Israeli state is conducting nothing short of a campaign of terror against the civilian population in that city and many others. We were in Ramallah to experience and document the realities of life under foreign occupation, but as … [Read more…]

All the signs of an impending coup in Venezuela were there for the world to see. The US are the world leaders in the orchestration of coups in third world countries, but you’d be forgiven for thinking they’d become a little complacent, relying on the same formula applied in Chile and so many other places. … [Read more…]

Zimbabwe held its presidential election over the weekend of 9-10 March. The result, declared on 13 March, produced a resounding victory for the incumbent – President Robert Mugabe, who secured 1,685,212 votes, as against the 1,258,401 secured by his challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In percentage terms, while Mugabe’s share … [Read more…]

12 January 2002 The Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines is like the Osama bin Laden group in one sense. It is a US creation that has run out of US control. It was created by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in collaboration with Filipino CIA assets (including Generals Alexander Aguirre and … [Read more…]

Fahim Ahmed, a prominent SLP Youth member was, like thousands of others in the past few months, arrested and detained (without so much as the suspicion of an offence) under the draconian new terrorism legislation. Another leading SLP member, Sukant Chandan, was also detained under the new anti-terrorist laws just a week or two before … [Read more…]

U.S. imperialism began its present predatory war against the people of Afghanistan on 7th October 2001. Begun in the name of waging a “war against terrorism”, it is actually the continuation of the terrorist war that U.S. imperialism has been waging against Afghanistan since the spring of 1979. In this war, 2.5 million Afghans, representing … [Read more…]