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Green Left Weekly issue #700, 28 February 2007
Marxism and the Venezuelan revolution

VENEZUELA “Today a new epoch begins”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in his victory speech on December 3, having won the presidential election with the highest vote in Venezuelan history on a platform of deepening the struggle to build socialism. “That new era is the new socialist democracy. ... » Philippines: Death squads escalate their dirty work

PHILIPPINES Many Australians would assume that death squads, disappearances, harassment by the military, violent dispersal of demonstrations and political prisoners were features of the Philippines that vanished when Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship was overthrown in 1986. » Aceh: New forms of foreign domination developing

ACEH The left-wing Acehnese Peoples Party (PRA) will be holding its founding congress in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh at the end of February. Sydney University Southeast Asian Studies lecturer Max Lane spoke to Thamrin Ananda, chairperson of the Preparatory Committee of the PRA. » El Salvador's 'year of peace'?

EL SALVADOR El Salvadoran President Antonio Saca’s right-wing government has proclaimed 2007 the “year of peace”, inaugurating this move with an attempt to nominate the late Roberto D’Aubuisson, founder of Saca’s ARENA party, with the highest human rights award in the country. » ElBaradei warns against Iran enrichment 'hype'

IRAN In an interview printed in the February 19 London Financial Times, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran could be as little as six months away from being able to enrich uranium to fuel-grade level on an industrial scale. » US Iraq commander wants thousands more troops

IRAQ On February 17 — one day after the US House of Representatives approved a non-binding, bipartisan resolution opposing President George Bush’s plan to increase the size of the US occupation force in Iraq by 21,500 combat troops — the commander of US forces in Baghdad announced he had f... » Profits (and poverty) rise in EU

An official European Union report issued on February 20 revealed that one in six people in the EU live below national poverty thresholds. The February 21 British Morning Star reported that according to the European Commission’s social inclusion report 10% of people in the EU — one of the wealthi... » Zimbabwe: Fighting spirit back!

ZIMBABWE The following report is by a correspondent in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe’s political situation has suddenly become pregnant with the possibility of uprisings, as ordinary people begin to defy police brutality. Unlike in the past when people were very scared of the police, now the situation seems to be dif... »


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