16 April 2008
Global food prices: anger erupts in mass protests
HUNGER AND malnutrition are getting far worse due to rising food prices. Even those fortresses of global capitalism, the World Bank and the International, writes Jon Dale and Jan Rybak.
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16 February 2006
Haitian poor rebel at suspected poll-rigging
HAITIANS WENT to the polls on 8 February for the first vote since the populist president Jean Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a US-backed coup, two years ago...
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4 September 2004
Haiti: A History Of Struggle
THIS YEAR marks the 200th anniversary of the Haitian revolution, when the black masses abolished slavery and won national independence...
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6 March 2004
Haiti: Aristide Forced Out As Us Sends Troops
THE PRESIDENT of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former "radical slum priest", fled the country on 29 February, under pressure from the Bush administration and the threat of armed rebels...
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17 January 2004
Haiti: Mass Protests Against Autocratic Rule
Street demonstrations against Aristide's rule by decree: Haiti has two major claims to fame: firstly, it saw the first successful revolution against slavery, and, secondly, the country is the poorest in the Western hemisphere...
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