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Green Left Weekly issue #712, 6 June 2007
United States: Cindy Sheehan quits Democrats after war vote

UNITED STATES In the wake of the Democratic Party taking control of the US House of Representatives and Senate in the November 2006 elections, hopes were high among the more liberal layers of the anti-war movement that it spelled an end to President George Bush’s Iraq war. No-one seriously doubted that behind t... » Corporate media outraged: Venezuela expands free speech

VENEZUELA Venezuela has been facing the most sustained campaign of destabilisation, including a barrage of media lies internationally and violent riots inside Venezuela, since the last serious attempt to overthrow the left-wing government of Hugo Chavez in 2004. » What future for Palestine?

PALESTINE June 5 marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, during which Israel attacked and defeated the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, seizing the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank from Jordan. » Iraq: US troops no longer believe in ‘the mission’

IRAQ “We’re helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us”, the May 27 New York Times reported being told by US Army Staff Sergeant David Safstrom, who was commenting on the US-recruited and trained Iraqi Army. » Britain: Blair proposes new terrorism laws

BRITAIN The proposed “anti-terror” laws would allow police to demand people’s names and addresses and question them as to where they have been and where they are going. Those giving unsatisfactory answers could be arrested and fined up to £5000 (about A$12,000). Under current British law... » Leading British voices support Venezuela's RCTV decision

BRITAIN The following letter, signed by a range of prominent figures in Britain, calls for respect for the Venezuelan government’s decision not to renew RCTV’s broadcasting licence. Signatories to the letter, which appeared in the British Guardian on May 26, include Tony Benn, John Pilger, Tariq A... » Iraq: Sadr calls for united resistance to occupation

IRAQ On May 25, Moqtada al Sadr, Iraq’s widely popular Shiite cleric whose Madhi Army militia has been accused by US officials of being responsible for a wave of killings of Sunni Muslims since February 2006, emerged publicly for the first time in months to deliver a Friday evening prayer speech in ... » Ireland: Status quo prevails after elections

IRELAND The Fianna Fail party of current Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahern won a resounding victory in the May 24 elections with 41% of the vote. FF, which has held power for 10 years, fell five seats short of an outright majority. Ahern will likely form a centre-right coalition with the right-wing Pr... » Lebanon: Refugee camp devastated by army assault

LEBANON Sporadic fighting was reported to have erupted on May 29 on the edges of the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon between the Lebanese Army and a Sunni Arab Islamist group called Fatah al Islam. On May 21, the Lebanese Army had laid siege to the camp and its 45,000 residents af... » Woman dead in New Zealand after 'Murder Energy' cut electricity

NEW ZEALAND On May 31, a picket of 50 people organised by Solidarity Unity protested outside the offices of Mighty River Power, which supplies electricity to Mercury Energy, the company responsible for the death of an Auckland woman on May 29. » Northern Ireland: Republican activists arrested

NORTHERN IRELAND The arrest of two prominent Republican activists has strained the new power-sharing government in Stormont (the Northern Ireland Assembly), established between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party of Ian Paisley in May. In January, as a step towards a coalition with the DUP, SF agreed to reco... » Israel promises to continue brutal offensive against Palestinians

PALESTINE Israeli military death squads assassinated two members of the Fatah-aligned Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah and Jenin on May 29. The public executions, which resulted in at least seven Palestinian civilians injured in Ramallah, were part of Israel’s escalating campaign of assassinations an... » Russia: Police violence against queer activists

RUSSIA On May 27, 150 queer activists, including members of the European Parliament and MPs from parliaments of EU member countries, gathered in Moscow’s Tverskaya Square near City Hall to deliver a petition calling on the city council to lift its ban on a gay pride parade. While ordinary police stood by... »


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