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Green Left Weekly issue #731, 14 November 2007
Venezuela strengthens solidarity with the Pacific

VENEZUELA Venezuela’s vice-minister of foreign affairs for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Vladimir Villegas, lead the Venezuelan delegation to the 38th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF — formerly the South Pacific Forum) meeting in Tonga on October 16-17. The PIF is the coordinated annual meeting, ... » South Pacific: Venezuela expands oil aid

VENEZUELA Venezuela has initiated plans to extend its solidarity-based oil deals to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, as signalled by Venezuela’s deputy foreign minister Vladimir Villegas, at the 38th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Tonga, held October 16-17. » Venezuela's revolution for humanity

VENEZUELA We are on the brink of celebrating the 90th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution, that beautiful, cherished uprising which asked for nobody’s permission to turn the hopes that the world might one day belong to those who work on it into a reality. » Afghanistan: Three western districts fall to Taliban

AFGHANISTAN “Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday [November 5], defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives”, Reuters reported that same day. » Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sanctions

IRAQ The November 2 British Independent reported that US- NATO ally Turkey “has started to impose economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul” and Irbil, capital of the Kurdistan autonomous region in northern Iraq. » Venezuela: Reform battle continues as Chavez ally splits

VENEZUELA Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on November 4, in a massive sea of red, to support the proposed constitutional reforms adopted by the National Assembly that will be put to a referendum on December 2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has explained that the reforms ... » Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator

PAKISTAN On November 3, Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf initiated an intensified crackdown against all opposition to his increasingly unstable regime, with the decleration of a state of emergency. While the military’s spin doctors have attempted to make a distinction between this st... » Pakistan: `Musharraf's days are up'

PAKISTAN General Pervez Musharraf would have not expected the political scenario that has emerged after five days of martial law, imposed on November 3. His hopes for achieving normality have been dashed, despite using the most vicious repression against the advocates (lawyers) and political activists. More ... » Argentina: Voter apathy delivers Fernandez victory

ARGENTINA With 44.9% of the valid votes cast, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, won Argentina’s October 28 presidential election. Fernandez was backed by her husband’s Front for Victory (FPV) party, still formally a faction within the Peronist (nationalist-populist) Justic... » China: Behind Beijing's `social harmony' rhetoric

CHINA Four days after the October 17-21 17th Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), the country’s government body dealing with public petitions and complaints — the State Bureau for Letters and Calls (SBLC) — held a national conference to map out new strategies to step-up its role in... » Wave of solidarity with Cuban Five

CUBA Over the last few weeks, thousands of intellectuals from different political, philosophical, and religious backgrounds from around the world have mobilised to speak up in defence of Cuba. » Cyprus: Can the people take the future in their hands?

CYPRUS A program for cultural transformation is being developed by ordinary Cypriots after the island’s politicians have proved unable to resolve the Cyprus problem, which has figured in international politics for over half a century. » Mass protests demand pro-US president resign

GEORGIA On November 4, Mikhail Saakashvili, the pro-US president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, accused Russia of fomenting mass protests against him. Saakashvili’s remarks were his first response to three days of protests in the capital Tbilisi in which some 100,000 people — a tenth of... » Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens

PALESTINE On November 7, the Israeli High Court of Justice gave Israeli PM Ehud Olmert’s government one week to present data to back up its assertion that its newest economic sanctions against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip — planned electricity supply cuts in particular — will not cause “... » Revolution under attack; solidarity needed

VENEZUELA The following statement was issued by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) on November 8. »


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