... this time, the Workers' Party frequently expressed approval of the communist regimes and offered little or no criticism of civil rights abuses or other anti-democratic features of those states. In an RTE interview last week, the leader of the Workers' ...

... for control of Angola with UNITA. For 16 years, a civil war raged between the ruling MPIA, backed by the Soviet Union and 50,000 Cuban troops, and the rebels, supported by South Africa and the United States. The fighting finally came to an end in May ...