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Including coups, dictators and other governments where the word 'democracy' doesn't come into it. See also Bush, Blair

 
 
 
 
Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega has a mosquito bite on his nose....
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29th May 2009 | Issue 677 - MOSQUITO BITE - On April 19th 2009, representatives from 360 Mískito communities declared the secession of the entire Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, also known as the Mosquito Coast. They announced that the area, which accounts for 46% of Nicaragua’s territory and an estimated 11% of the population, would form the independent Nation of Moskitia.

 

Colombian President Uribe
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21st November 2008 | Issue 656- MINGA THE MERCILESS - SchNEWS looks at the new peoples' movement in Colombia, and what they're up against - the paramilitary thugs of the government, and the guerrillas of FARC.


Mugabe

6th October 2006 | Issue 563 - I DID IT MY ZIMBABWE - Strikes, Striking and Strikers in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe - Workers’ resistance in Zimbabwe has been on the rise recently, with street demos, trade union action and new forms of resistance such as the ‘Uhuru Street Soccer Battles’. The ruling elite is attempting to silence opposition with the usual combination of police brutality and state propaganda.

 
 
 
Tsars In Their Eyes - G8 Summit, Russia, 2006, fiends-reunited
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30th June 2006 | Issue 549 - TSARS IN THEIR EYES - Putin puts the boot in ahead of the G8 Summit meeting in Russia - One year on from Gleneagles (we can’t believe it – poverty’s still not history!), the G8 circus is re-forming (but almost certainly not reforming) for a St Petersburg-based shindig over the weekend of 15-17 July. As activists gear up for the most full-on anti summit mobilisation yet, the Russian state is already cracking down on those who might disrupt or inconvenience its chairmanship of the world’s most powerful club.

 
 
 
 
King of Nepal chats with Prince Phillip
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21st April 2006 | Issue 540 - NEPAL OR NOTHING - In Nepal the showdown between a fat power-crazed king and a huge pro-democracy movement has shut down the entire country since April 6th...

 
 
 
 
Ukraine's Orange revolution

3rd December 2004 | Issue 476 - UKRAINE GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT - How the authoritarian regime in Ukraine stage-manages the illusion of a 'democracy', to quell revolutionary popular currents.

 
 
 
 
Ex-Soviet Georgia - important geo-political battle ground

5th December 2003 | Issue 433 - FUEL'S GOLD - Ex-Soviet country Georgia is in a strategic location as pressure intensifies between Russia and the US to secure the oil resources in the region. Now the hands of the CIA are all over the recent electoral victory which installs a US-trained lawyer as president...

 
 
 

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OTHER SATIRE
Spoofs

Jolly Roger Press
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Jolly Roger Press -
SchNEWS's take on an anarchist publishing house catalogue produced for the Anarchist Bookfair, Issue 608 - October 2007 (Download PDF - 970kb)

Blair Mugshot
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Blair Charge Sheet
- as Blair leaves, we look at his record - Issue 594, June 2007 (Click Here)

Rave Casualty Support Group
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Barrio Social Centre - What's On Guide - SchNEWS looks at a typical British social centre. Issue 573 - Jan 2007. (Download PDF - 220kb)

Upper Crust - from the spoof festival guide
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Spoof Festival Guide
- close to the bone parody of UK festival scene produced for Big Green Gathering, Issue 553 - August 2006. (Download PDF - 2.2meg)

Winston get a mohawk - Mayday 2000
SchNEWS Worst Britain
- produced for the Peace De Resistance book in 2003 (Click Here)


Are You Really Green? - questionnaire produced for the Big Green Gathering 2007 (not yet available)