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THE COMMUNIST Party of Swaziland has demanded the release of three of its members, detained while campaigning for democratic reforms in the country on Friday.
It said the activists were detained in the east of the country as they took part in activities aimed at raising political consciousness among the masses.
Party materials were seized by police in the town of Big Bend, while more than 15 officers harassed the party members before bundling them into a police van.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran