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Green Left Weekly issue #701, 7 March 2007
Anti-war song soars charts

BRIEF, BRITAIN British band Ugly Rumours (named after PM Tony Blair’s college band) has released a cover of War (What is it Good For?) (originally made famous by Edwin Starr). The single, which is performed by “Tony Blair” in an accompanying video clip, reached number six in Britain’s singles c... Trade unionist murdered in Cambodia

BRIEF, CAMBODIA On February 24, Hy Vuthy, a leader of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of Cambodia (FTUWKC) was shot dead while driving home. The murder occurred shortly after Hy Vuthy successfully negotiated with a company for a one-day holiday for Khmer New Year. This was the third murder of a FTUWKC represent... El Salvador: Youth activists arrested, beaten

BRIEF, EL SALVADOR As right-wing death squads reassert their presence and gangs and organised crime with links to the highest levels of government operate freely, campesinos (peasants) and organised youth are being persecuted and beaten in the streets. On February 27, while holding a peaceful and legal protest against... Iranian women demand law reform

BRIEF, IRAN Women’s rights activists in Iran have initiated a petition campaign, titled “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws”. The campaign — a follow-up to a June 12 protest in Tehran last year that was brutally attacked by police — aims to overturn anti-wom... Iraq union's offices raided

BRIEF, IRAQ On February 23 and 25, US and Iraqi forces raided the head offices of Iraq’s national trade union centre, the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW). One of the union’s security staff was arrested and later released. The soldiers destroyed furniture and confiscated a computer and fax m... Iraqi women face execution for supporting resistance

BRIEF, IRAQ Three Iraqi women aged 25-31 face execution after being sentenced to death by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court for involvement in resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq. Wassan Talib, Zainab Fadhil and Liqa Omar Muhammad denied the charges. A statement by the World Tribunal on Iraq and the Brus... Anti-war protest banned in South Korea

BRIEF, SOUTH KOREA The South Korean anti-war movement is appealing for support in its campaign demanding the right to hold an anti-war demonstration on March 17, as part of the global weekend of action on the anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The government has banned the protest. Korean Action against Dispa... Trade unionists face intimidation in Sri Lanka

BRIEF, SRI LANKA Intimidation of trade unionists escalated during February after union leaders protested the abduction early that month of three workers involved with railway workers’ union newspaper Akuna. One of the three was Sisira Priyankara, the paper’s editor, who had been involved in lodging complai... Poverty kills 12-year-old in US

BRIEF, UNITED STATES On February 25, 12-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache in Maryland. A simple tooth extraction could have saved his life, but by the time he received medical attention a tooth infection had spread to his brain. Driver’s family did not have private health insurance and their Medicaid cov... Haiti: A state of siege

HAITI IPS — Nearly two months since UN troops began launching heavy attacks that they say are aimed against gang members in poor neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, roadblocks and barbed wire remain in place and the atmosphere is grim. » Afghanistan: No gender equality under occupation

AFGHANISTAN The new constitution of Afghanistan formally grants equal rights to women and men. The government has also endorsed the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which, according to development agencies, is significant progress on gender equality “po... » Venezuela: 'People are the beginning and the end'

VENEZUELA Luis Britto Garcia was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1940. He is the author of a vast work that encompasses 47 titles, eight of them narrative fiction. In 1970, he won the Casa de las Americas Prize with his collection of tales Rajatabla. In 1979, he won that international distinction again with hi... » ACEH: Congress proceeds despite food poisoning

ACEH The first congress by the Preparatory Committee for the Acehnese People’s Party (KP-PRA) was disrupted on February 28 when around 75 participants were rushed to hospital with suspected food poisoning. » Tens of thousands march against Blair's wars

BRITAIN On February 24, 60,000 anti-war protesters took to the streets of central London in a demonstration against the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and against the threat of military action now hanging over Iran. On the same day, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Glasgow... » Is China Africa's new imperialist power?

CHINA China’s much increased economic activities in Africa in recent years — investments in energy and natural resources extraction and loans to African governments — have provoked accusations that it is becoming a new neocolonial power in the continent. » Protests after Australian troops kill East Timorese youths

EAST TIMOR Australian soldiers fired on three youths in Dili on February 23. One youth died at the scene — a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) near Dili Airport. The others were injured; one later died in hospital. » Italian communist senator takes stand against war

ITALY On February 21, senators Franco Turigliatto from the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) and Ferdinando Rossi from the Party of Italian Communists (PDCI) disobeyed party instructions and abstained on a vote in support of the foreign policy of the government of prime minister Romano Prodi. Because ... » North Korea: US moves to lift financial sanctions

NORTH KOREA On February 26, a US consular official in Hong Kong announced that Washington was ready to “begin taking steps” to lift financial sanctions on North Korea by resolving a dispute over Macau’s Banco Delta Asia. In September 2005, the US Treasury designated BDA a primary money-laundering... » Pakistan: Aisha Amin - peace hero

PAKISTAN Seventy-three-year-old Aisha Amin, a Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activist from Shahdra Lahore, was declared dead three days after being listed as missing after the February 18 Delhi-Lahore train bomb blast. » Israeli army terrorises Nablus residents

PALESTINE The Israeli army continued to terrorise residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian National Authority’s International Press Centre (IRC) reported on February 28. IPC reported that at 2.30am that day, an Israeli occupation contingent of 120 armoured vehicles, jeeps and bulldozers st... » The toll of Israel's war on Palestine

PALESTINE The Israeli military and security forces have killed more than 5000 Palestinians since the beginning of the Al Asqa intifada in September 2000, according to the Palestinian National Information Centre (PNIC). » Iraq war options canvassed by US political elite

UNITED STATES An opinion poll conducted in early February by the Washington-based Pew Research Center found that 53% of US voters surveyed agreed that the US “should bring its troops home as soon as possible”. This sentiment explains why the leading Democratic Party presidential hopefuls are trying to convinc... » US rainbow solidarity for the Cuban Five

UNITED STATES An extraordinary mobilisation of Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five is extending around the world. » Venezuela, Argentina to establish `Bank of the South'

VENEZUELA During a visit to Venezuela, Argentinean President Nestor Kirchner signed an agreement with Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez that will launch the “Bank of the South” (Bancosur) within four months, reported a February 22 Venezuelanlaysis.com article. Bancosur is part of the ... » Venezuela-London agreement to help the poor

VENEZUELA Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro and London Mayor Ken Livingstone signed an agreement on February 20 for Venezuela to provide discounted oil to London authorities. In return, London will assist with city management and environmental protection in Caracas. » Venezuelan women 'struggling all our lives'

VENEZUELA In Venezuela, after decades of class polarisation, neglect of the needs of the majority, corruption on a massive scale and unbridled bureaucracy, the magnitude of problems that Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution led by socialist president Hugo Chavez is attempting to tackle is enormous. » Agent Orange: A token gesture by Washington

VIETNAM Through its Vietnam ambassador, the Bush administration announced on February 9 that it will fund 40% of a US$1 million plan to study how to clean up a former US military base in Vietnam that is contaminated by dioxin, a class-one human carcinogen. Dioxin was a key ingredient in Agent Orange, a defo... »


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