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Green Left Weekly issue #718, 25 July 2007
Who killed Sajida Khan?

SOUTH AFRICA Internationally known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on the night of July 15 in her Durban home at age 55. She was suffering her second bout of cancer, and chemotherapy had evacuated her beautiful long hair. » France: Sarkozy’s assault and the reshaping of the left

FRANCE The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as France’s president in April and the landslide to the conservatives in the first round of the parliamentary elections on June 10, described in France as the “blue wave”, were widely presented in the Australian capitalist media as a dramatic shift to t... » Aceh: GAM party sparks new round of anti-separatist rhetoric

ACEH A furor has erupted over the recent formation of the GAM party in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh. Former members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) announced the formation of the party on July 7. Chaired by former GAM military commander Muzakkir Manaf, it adopted GAM’s white crescent and... » Britain: Anti-war MP faces suspension

BRITAIN On July 17 the British House of Commons’ standards and privileges committee recommended the suspension of George Galloway, the former Labour MP who is now an MP for the left-wing Respect coalition, for 18 days. Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 because of his opposition to the... » Britain: Top cop calls for new assault on civil liberties

BRITAIN The head of Britain’s Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has called for police to be given the power to imprison “terror suspects” indefinitely without charge. » Cuba: Fighting capitalism’s climate crisis

“Cuba has an energy policy whose core concept is to rely less and less on hydrocarbons and give greater space in the energy balance to renewable sources like solar, wind, tide, and water. Cuba has put in place a conservation system that starts at house level and continues to the public sector a... » East Timor: Socialists work to consolidate party

EAST TIMOR Max Lane spoke to the Socialist Party of Timor’s (PST) secretary-general, Avelino da Silva Coelho, in the wake of East Timor’s June 30 parliamentary elections, in which the PST received 0.96% of the vote. » France: For the foundation of a new anti-capitalist party

FRANCE This is an abridged version of a motion adopted by the national leadership of France’s Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). » France: New challenges for the LCR

FRANCE The French presidential and parliamentary elections produced very contradictory results for the broadly defined radical left. Its collective vote of a little less than 9% in the presidential poll, while large compared to other industrialised countries, was down from 15% in 2002. However the Revoluti... » Germany: Police employed ‘psychological terrorism’ during G8

GERMANY The European-wide human rights monitoring organisation State Watch is now collecting reports on the policing of protests during the June 6-8 G8 summit in Germany. » Haiti: Privatisation plan starts with mass firings

HAITI At least 500 Teleco workers received termination letters on July 6 as part of the government’s announced plan to privatise the company. » Iraq: US-trained police aid resistance fighters

IRAQ “A previously undisclosed US Army investigation into an audacious January attack in Karbala that killed five US soldiers concludes that Iraqi police working alongside American troops colluded with insurgents”, the July 12 USA Today reported. » Iraqi children worse off since US invasion

IRAQ Iraqi children are worse off today than they were before the US-led March 2003 invasion, Dan Toole, director of emergency programs for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told reporters in Geneva on July 16. » Abbas’s forms 'caretaker' government

PALESTINE According to a report issued by the Palestinian National Information Centre (PNIC), during the month of June, Israel occupation forces killed 49 Palestinians and wounded a further 147. During the same period, Israel abducted and arrested 383 Palestinians and carried out 765 invasions into Palestinia... » Venezuela and the international struggle for socialism

VENEZUELA The dramatic advances of the Venezuelan revolution, and the alliances it has forged with other insurgent peoples and governments resisting imperialism, are creating an historic opportunity to strengthen international anti-imperialist collaboration and rebuild the revolutionary socialist movement wor... » Venezuela: Awakening the giant of youth

VENEZUELA The revolutionary student movement in Venezuela is divided into countless tiny organisations, often with bases in just one faculty or one campus. One of these organisations, the Popular Revolutionary Movement of Fire (MPR Fogata), in a statement issued in June called for “the revolutionary stud... »


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