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Green Left Weekly issue #725, 26 September 2007
UNITED STATES: 50,000 demand ’Free Jena 6’

UNITED STATES A Louisiana appeals court threw out the only remaining conviction against Mychal Bell, the first of the Jena 6 to be put on trial in an example of modern-day Jim Crow injustice that has stunned people around the globe. » Voices in defence of Bolivia

BOLIVIA The following statement was originally posted on , in response to the current US-backed campaign of destabilisation against the democratically-elected government of President Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, elected in December 2005 with just under 54% of the vote. Visit the site... » Solidarity needed to defend Bolivia's revolution

BOLIVIA The following statement was issued on September 17 by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist tendency in Australia’s Socialist Alliance. » Venezuela's revolutionary internationalism

VENEZUELA Next month, a representative of the foreign ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will visit Australia to address the Latin America and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum in Melbourne on October 11-14.’s, Green Left Weekly’s Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter conducted an int... » ‘Extreme’ Arctic melt sparks dash for cash

A massive drop in Arctic sea ice during this year’s northern summer has opened up the Northwest Passage — a sea route that passes between the frozen Arctic region and northern Canada that could provide a quicker shipping route between Europe and Asia than previously allowed by either the S... » Bolivia: Calm between storms

BOLIVIA As fears of violence and talk of secession and civil war fade, and a fragile calm descends over this Andean country, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, celebrated an important milestone. Completing 19 months and three weeks in office, Morales has surpassed the length of time in ... » British unionists reaffirm solidarity with Venezuela

BRITAIN On September 13 Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) reaffirmed its solidarity with Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution at its annual conference, backing Venezuela’s decision not to renew the public-broadcast license of the private TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), which had &... » Beijing attacks ’new left’ magazine

CHINA Since Beijing’s push to speed-up privatisation in the mid-1990s, left-leaning intellectuals in China have increasingly made use of Dushu (Readings), a monthly discussion magazine, as a platform to challenge this policy direction and Beijing’s overall pro-capitalist agenda. They highlighted... » Testing time ahead for Gusmao

EAST TIMOR On September 12, the new East Timorese government led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, tabled the Government Program for 2007-12. The coalition Parliamentary Majority Alliance (AMP) believes the program will help alleviate poverty and resolve internal unrest and security issues. “Everything is urg... » Iraq: US-backed gangster assassinated

IRAQ On September 12, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a US-backed former crime boss in Iraq’s Anbar province, was killed by a roadside bomb that struck his convoy in the western province’s capital of Ramadi. Sattar died 10 days after he was feted by US President George Bush at a giant US air bas... » Iraqi death toll 1.2 million

IRAQ Based on a new household survey conducted in Iraq in August, the British Opinion Research Business (ORB) polling agency estimates that the Iraqi death toll from the four-and-half year US war exceeds 1.2 million. » The crisis in Darfur and Chad

SUDAN The images on the television screen are now so familiar we become immune. Unimaginable numbers of people suffering and dying in a part of the world we know little about for reasons we know even less. What is it that we feel? Sadness, pity, a sense of anger, a sense of hopelessness? So we make the ri... » Tens of thousands march against Iraq war

UNITED STATES Tens of thousands of people marched in Washington, DC, on September 15 demanding an end to the US war in Iraq. Pennsylvania Avenue was filled shoulder to shoulder from the White House, where the action began, to the Capitol building. The turnout was larger than expected, a shot in the arm for anti-w... »


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