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...courts." Not that the courts are off-limits. Soon after sitting down for a mid-February interview with TIME to describe his denunciation session, Dai was arrested; on May 11, after a one-day trial, he was sentenced to five years in prison for "spreading propaganda against the Socialist Republic...
...Chavez, who has used his petro-largesse to build a raft of global alliances, now exploiting the big screen to spread propaganda for his socialist revolution? Chavez critics in Washington, like Florida congressman Connie Mack, are blasting Glover for cutting "a sweetheart movie deal" with Chavez, whom they denounce as a protege of Cuba's communist comandante, Fidel Castro...
When Blair became prime minister in 1997, he sought to remedy Britain’s rusty socialist state, incurring the wrath of the powerful labor unions. He resisted pressure from the Trades Union Congress—whose members constitute a significant chunk of the Labour party—for repeal of anti-union laws. Union workers demanded that Blair lift prohibitions on secondary picketing, whereby people picket venues unrelated to their protest, such as the private homes of a company’s management; but Blair did not bend...
...Perhaps most the controversial (though not unexpected) appointment was naming Socialist Bernard Kouchner as Foreign Affairs minister, a move that may reveal the staunchly conservative Sarkozy's intent to give issues like human rights and democratic and financial accountability greater weight in France's international relations. A trained physician, Kouchner founded the M?decins Sans Fronti?res (Doctors Without Borders) relief group in 1971, and used the diplomacy skills he learned in humanitarian crises to launch a political career. Socialist opponents have called Sarkozy's recruitment of Kouchner a ploy to co-opt and thus weaken the left ahead of June legislative...
SEGOLENE ROYAL, Socialist candidate for President of France, conceding the election to conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy...