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Green Left Weekly issue #721, 22 August 2007
Peru: Workers resist ‘free trade’ agreement

PERU Popular resistance to neoliberal “reform” was the underlying cause of Peru’s July general strike. On July 5, public schoolteachers walked off the job over government plans to privatise education. Within days, discontented workers from other industries joined the embattled teachers. Before long... » Venezuela: Reforms to strengthen democracy, promote ‘social economy’

VENEZUELA “Thousands of government supporters converged on Venezuela’s National Assembly, carrying banners reading ‘Yes to the reform, on the path to 21st Century Socialism’”, the BBC’s website reported on August 16, as Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announced proposed co... » Colombia: FENSUAGRO organiser to speak in Australia

COLOMBIA Liliany Obando, an international representative and organiser of the Agricultural Workers Union Federation of Colombia (FENSUAGRO), will be among more than 35 international guests at the Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum to be held in Melbourne on October 11-14. » Australia: international oil thief

EAST TIMOR Shakedown: Australia’s grab for Timor oil By Paul Cleary Allen & Unwin, 2007 336 pages, $29.95 » Behind the conflict in East Timor

EAST TIMOR On August 6, East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta appointed his predecessor, Xanana Gusmao, prime minister and asked him to form a government without Fretilin, the largest party in the parliament elected on June 30. Despite the constitutional legitimacy of this being unclear, Gusmao’s gover... » Iraq: British ‘defeated’ in Basra, US official says

IRAQ “The British have basically been defeated in the south [of Iraq]”, the August 8 Washington Post reported being told by a US intelligence official in Baghdad. In the first six months of this year, 37 British troops were killed in Iraq, the highest number for any six-month period of the war and 14... » Anti-racist student protesters acquitted

ISRAEL Seven Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students who held an anti-racism speak-out at Haifa University have been cleared of all charges of “provoking a commotion” by a university disciplinary hearing on August 13. » Reviving the phoney `peace process'

PALESTINE Now that the dust has settled from the US-backed coup carried out by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party against the Hamas-led “national unity” government, Abbas and unelected PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad have revealed that they’ve nothing to offer... » Scottish socialists back independence referendum

SCOTLAND On August 14, Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), revealed his minority government’s plans for a referendum on Scottish independence. » South Africa: The ’Zumafication’ of left politics in the Alliance

SOUTH AFRICA The June 27-30 African National Congress (ANC) Policy Conference and the South African Communist Party’s 12th Congress, held in July, confirmed what many political observers in South Africa have known for a long time: that the politics and practical work of the SACP and Congress of South Africa... »


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