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Iran: scope for solidarity – and for engaging workers

By Michael Allen on February 3, 2010

Iran’s Green movement must broaden its demands to expand support amongst the country’s poor and working families, says opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The movement has been accused of being unrepresentative, and arguably too focused on constitutional issues that hold little appeal beyond university students and the middle class.
“The fate of the movement should be tied [read full story]

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Nepal: unions promoting democracy despite Maoist attacks

Nepal: unions promoting democracy despite Maoist attacks

By Michael Allen on April 23, 2009

Despite Maoist threats and intimidation, Nepal’s unions are striving to promote democracy and workers’ rights, writes the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s Tim Ryan from Kathmandu.
In 2006, the country’s trade unions mobilized to oust an autocratic monarchy, but efforts to incorporate the former Maoist insurgents into the political process have stalled democratic progress in the world’s youngest [read full story]

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Policy review prompts solidarity with Cuba’s democrats

Policy review prompts solidarity with Cuba’s democrats

By Michael Allen on April 8, 2009

Democracy and human rights groups are urging the Congressional Black Caucus, which yesterday met with Fidel Castro, to press Cuba’s communist authorities on the welfare of the island’s political prisoners and democracy activists, including Afro-Cuban prisoner of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and civil rights activist Jorge Luis Perez Garcia, aka “Antunez.”
The World Movement for [read full story]

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