June 2007 Archive 

Iraq’s homophobic terror Peter Tatchell reports on the plight of gay and lesbian Iraqis targeted for execution by Islamist death squads

Pulling the plug on private water A little known body at the World Bank is behind the privatisation of water worldwide. Vicky Cann exposes it to public view.

For the love of oil Iranian author Mehri Honarbin-Holliday reminds us of the nefarious history of the crushing of Iranian democracy by the US and UK, and describes the peaceful efforts of a new generation of Iranian youth to build it in the beleaguered circumstances of a sanctions-imprisoned Iran

The left has only itself to blame The right-wing election victory in France should never have happened, writes Philippe Marlière.

European unions of the people Giulio Marcon and Duccio Zola survey the resistance to privatisation across Europe, highlighting the role of pan-European trade union initiatives and a growing alliance between social movements and the unions

Stop the Wall In the first in a series on the networks and organisations that make up the global justice movement, Nadia Idle looks at the grassroots campaign against Israel’s ‘apartheid wall’

Never mind the Baluch

While Pakistan and Iran terrorise their Baluchi minorities, the British government has designated the Baluchistan Liberation Army as ‘terrorist’.

Ben Hayes reports

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Moving against When the G8 travelling circus rolls up to Rostock in Germany this month, it will again be met with mass protests. Ben Trott reports on the efforts of the German left to unite and draw lessons from the protests at the 2005 Gleneagles summit

The foul stench of Firestone Slavery isn’t dead, writes Robtel Neajai Pailey. Its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation

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