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 On 14 August 2000, in the early hours of the morning, 900 troops, from Britain, Denmark and France, under a Spanish general, Ortuno, seized control of a lead smelting plant that forms part of the Trepca mining complex, one of Yugoslavia’s most precious assets, and one which imperialism has long lusted after. According to Christopher … [Read more…]

– US imperialism commits $1.3 billion to stamping out the Colombian liberation movement. In early 1999 the government of Colombia began peace talks with the leaders of the Colombian liberation movement, which is led by FARC and the ELN. The latter had taken over half the country, so the government felt it had no choice but … [Read more…]

its aim is to drown the Colombian revolution in blood The article on this page is closely based on a statement issued by several anti-imperialist organisations based mainly in Italy, calling for mobilisation of all progressive people and organisations against Clinton’s Plan Colombia. Those wishing to sign the statement and read it in the original Spanish … [Read more…]

 (The following short story is translated from the FARC-EP website – http://www.farc-ep.org – with thanks).At 6.30 a.m. on 3 August I leave home, as I do every day, to go to work. I know that a strike has been called by the three major union organisations but the truth is that I feel pessimistic about … [Read more…]

The concealed genocide By Tony Busselen[This article is translated fromSolidaire,with thanks].An International Rescue Committee team investigating the situation in the Congolese provinces under occupation by Rwanda and Uganda has discovered that the war has already cost the lives of 1.7 million people. The UN issues protests against the invaders, but its practice is benevolent goodwill and … [Read more…]

 Every cloud has a silver lining goes the saying. The cloud of the 1997 economic meltdown in South Korea appears to have convinced many south Koreans, who previously did well out of south Korea’s subservience to US imperialism, that there is a pressing need to break free from the clutches of foreign finance capital and … [Read more…]

 Certain ‘Korea experts’ who claim to be friends of Korea have asserted that the newly-opened Soviet archives provide evidence that North Korea did start the Korean war, against the advice given by Stalin and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. What this archival material is, where it is to be found, etc., has never … [Read more…]

 Lalkar salutes the Lebanese resistance for its successful struggle in defeating the Zionist forces and their quislings, the so-called South Lebanese Army, which had been in occupation of a fifth of Lebanon for a decade and a half in complete violation of UN resolutions and international law.The defeat of the arrogant Zionist army of occupation … [Read more…]

10 June 2000: One year on, since NATO halted its illegal 78-day illegal bombing of Yugoslavia. Undermining International LawImperialism, on 2 June 2000, through Justice Carla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, in effect announced that while imperialism remains the dominant world ideology, there will be no justice. The exact … [Read more…]

 This issue of the 58 killed refugees was on the front page ofThe Timesof 20 June, and how do they report the deaths of these refugees? Who do they blame? The blame is given entirely to the gangsters who are organising the journeys – “who care only for money, not for the safety of their … [Read more…]