Rohan Pearce, Author at Toward Freedom

Unions Vow to Defy Repression in Zimbabwe

Rohan Pearce March 27, 2007 Rohan Pearce

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has declared it will go ahead with an April 3-4 "stay away" by workers despite the wave of repression suffered by opponents of President Robert Mugabe's regime and authorities' threats to crush the ZCTU strike. Already ZCTU members have been arrested, their offices raided and material relating to the stay away confiscated.

Somalia: Death and despair the ‘benefits’ of war on terror

Rohan Pearce January 16, 2007 Rohan Pearce

In what seems to be becoming a signature atrocity of US President George Bush's "war on terror", US air strikes hit a Somali wedding ceremony, according to a January 10 BBC Online report. Up to 31 people were killed.

Somalia: Washington’s warlords lose out

Rohan Pearce July 3, 2006 Rohan Pearce