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Green Left Weekly issue #745, 2 April 2008
Venezuelan revolutionary leader: mass socialist party ‘a political necessity’

VENEZUELA United States: Race, gender and unions

UNITED STATES Kathy Black recently took part in a speaking tour of Australia at the invitation of Sydney’s Stop the War Coalition. Black is one of six national conveners of US Labor Against the War and is also the Philadelphia president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), a group affiliated to the ... » Latin America: Two bad days for imperialism

March 17 and 18 were bad days for the US government and the corporate interests it represents, as it suffered two blows to its campaign to undermine the growing movement in Latin America towards regional integration to challenge US domination. » Malaysia: Electoral break-through to test socialists

MALAYSIA On March 18, Peter Boyle, the national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective — a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance — interviewed S. Arutchelvan, the secretary general of the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM), about the PSM’s electoral successes in the March 12 general ... » Canada: Anti-GM farmers score victory

CANADA “Percy Schmeiser’s decade-long legal odyssey has finally come to an end — and he’s got a cheque for [C]$660 to prove it”, the March 20 Toronto Globe and Mail reported. » GMOs: The next asbestos?

The European Commission is increasingly annoyed by its inability to foist unwanted, unnecessary and unsafe genetically modified crops onto European consumers and some member-state governments. » Iraq: Five years on, Bush still promises ‘victory’

IRAQ Within days of Washington’s war on Iraq entering its sixth year, the White House confirmed news reports that the US troop death toll had passed the 4000 mark. Associated Press reported on March 23 that “the grim milestone” came after “a roadside bomb killed four US soldiers in Ba... » Malawi: Big Tobacco and child labour

MALAWI Sickly and malnourished, Kirana Kapito began his working life on a large commercial tobacco estate in Malawi’s northern region. Such farms sell their produce on the country’s auction floors directly to international corporations, including Limbe Leaf Tobacco (majority-owned by the Swiss-register... » Wall Street vs homeowners — guess who get’s bailed out?

UNITED STATES On March 19, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon joined Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz to face a group of 400 stunned Bear executives. Five days earlier, Bear Stearns, one of Wall Street’s five largest investment banks, had lost $17 billion of wealth, triggering the biggest financial panic since th... » Stop the bloodshed — freedom for Tibet!

A demonstration by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on March 10 to commemorate the anniversary of China’s crushing of the Tibetan independence movement in 1959 triggered protests for self-determination that, by March 14, had escalated into anti-Chinese riots in which 19 people were... » Colombia: Ten unionists killed so far this year

CANADA Below is an abridged statement by the International Trade Union Confederation » Anti-capitalism still a crime in Czech Republic

CZECH REPUBLIC The Prague City Court rejected an appeal from the Czech Communist Youth Association (KSM) against an official banning order, the German JungeWelT reported on March 27. The interior ministry prohibition order was originally issued in October 2006. » Indonesia: Venezuela solidarity campaign launched

INDONESIA It is not an overstatement that the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is a shining beacon of hope for struggling masses around the world. » Sri Lanka: MP murdered. media freedom attacked

SRI LANKA On March 6, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member of parliament K. Sivanesan was killed by a claymore mine while driving through a village in northern Sri Lanka on his way home from a parliamentary sitting in Colombo. Sivanesan had voted against a further extension of the state of emergency currently... » West Papua: Free peaceful protesters

WEST PAPUA Below is an abridged March 19 statement by Human Rights Watch, . »


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