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Agenda Making the news this month
9 The Ollanta and Keiko show
Peru’s presidential run-off heats up.
10 Turkey: a political milestone for Kurdish voices 12 The scandal of Canada’s 4,000 ‘disposable’
women
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Analysis Special feature: The rise of the far right
14 Eyes to the far right Extremists have been making inroads across Europe with a sanitized version of some very dirty politics. K Biswas looks into the heart of the beast.
Also in Analysis 26 Holidays in Rwanda Ten years after fleeing his home country, Jean
Kayigamba makes an emotional return.
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18 Tea and paranoia Politicians in the US and Australia play the anti-immigration card. 21 In the shadows
Yassean Mohammed tells Rowenna Davis how he survived a racist attack.
22 The worst of the West The ‘mainstream’ players peddling a politics of hate. 24 Pride and prejudice
Nikolai Alexeyev knows only too well that in eastern Europe the far right has a homophobic edge
4 ● N ew I n t e r nat i o nal i s t ● J U N E 2 011
29 The A word Uri Gordon offers insight into what anarchism – a word bandied about carelessly by the press – really means.
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