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Green Left Weekly issue #720, 8 August 2007
Record July US troop death toll in Iraq

BRIEF, IRAQ While the US corporate media trumpeted on the last day of July that US troop fatalities in Iraq were the “lowest for eight months”, according to the final Pentagon figure for the month, 80 US soldiers were killed — one less than the number killed in March. The July 2007 death toll was the high... Uncontacted tribes flee to Brazil

BRIEF, PERU Survival International reported on August 2 that a large group of uncontacted Indians had fled to Bananeira, a remote village across the border in Brazil. It is believed that the Indians were escaping illegal loggers, who have been destroying their lands in their search for “red gold” (rare maho... Venezuela: Station not closed, but attempting to dodge law

VENEZUELA Venezuelan private television station RCTV, owned by multi-millionaire Marcel Granier, began broadcasting via cable and satellite television inside Venezuela on July 16, according to a July 31 Wall Street Journal article. RCTV had previously been broadcasting via the government-owned Channel 2 airwa... » Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa

ECUADOR When Rafael Correa was elected president of Ecuador in 2006, campaigning on a strong anti-neoliberal platform to bring about a “citizen’s revolution”, one key social force seemed notably absent from his campaign — the country’s powerful indigenous movement. » Inside Washington's Iraqi ministry of terror

IRAQ Five months into a Baghdad-centred “security crackdown”, US officials continue to claim that the 160,000 US troops occupying Iraq are making “progress” in reducing “sectarian violence” in the war-ravaged country. But, according to a July 26 Associated Press tally, at le... » Who are the climate leaders?

THAILAND As the European Union, the US and big business vie with each other to be recognised as taking serious action on climate change, Larry Lohmann wonders whether the real leadership is not to be found elsewhere. » How truth slips down the memory hole

BRITAIN One of the leaders of demonstrations in Gaza calling for the release of the BBC reporter Alan Johnston was a Palestinian news cameraman, Imad Ghanem. On July 5, he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he filmed them invading Gaza. A Reuters video shows bullets hitting his body as he lay on the ground. An... » Union official assassinated in El Salvador

EL SALVADOR This appeal was issued on July 30 by Public Services International (PSI) following the assassination of Miguel Angel Vasquez Argueta, finance secretary for PSI’s affiliate STSEL in the electricity sector. PSI is calling for a full and independent investigation into the matter. » Fiji: Nurses, teachers strike against pay cut

FIJI About 1400 nurses in Fiji, who began a strike on July 25, were joined on August 2 by thousands of teachers and other public servants, resulting in at least half of Fiji’s 20,000 public sector workers being on strike. » Voices of peace

NEW ZEALAND The following is abridged from a July 29 report by the Residents Action Movement (RAM). » New labour federation formed in Palestine

PALESTINE On July 27-28, 200 trade unionists from the higher education, electricity, telecommunications, finance, municipal services, pharmaceutical and health-care sectors in the Israeli-occupied West Bank attended a conference to set up the Coalition of Independent and Democratic Trade Unions and Workers... » An alliance of tyrants

UNITED STATES The following is abridged from the August 3 edition of US Socialist Worker. » Venezuela's pro-people transformation continues

VENEZUELA As part of the expansion of the pro-poor social programs — known as “missions” — promoted by the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelanalysis.com reported on July 26 that Chavez had announced plans for the construction of 15 new hospitals. The article reports t... » Venezuela: Co-management in a sea of capitalism

VENEZUELA Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, and in particular its experiments with workers’ co-management and in some instances workers’ control, is at the cutting edge of the global movement against capitalism. With the bosses’ lockout in 2002-03, which shut down much of the Venezuelan economy for a... » TNI threatens to use militia groups in West Papua

WEST PAPUA In a July 26 media statement, the Institute for Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights (IPAHR) in Australia expressed its concern at threats by the Indonesian military (TNI) to use militia groups against “separatists” in West Papua. »


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