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Green Left Weekly issue #749, 7 May 2008
Venezuela: ‘This year’s May Day is very special’

“We have just attended a massive march of workers for May Day in Caracas”, Coral Wynter, a coordinator of the current Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigade to Venezuela, told Green Left Weekly. » Venezuela: ‘Do they think we are morons?’

VENEZUELA On live TV, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed the law on April 30 that re-nationalised the giant Sidor steelworks — majority owned by Argentinean-based Ternium corporation. » Afghanistan: Taliban continue growing in strength

AFGHANISTAN In a blow to repeated claims this year by US and NATO officials that their 50,000-strong occupation force has Afghanistan’s Taliban-led anti-occupation insurgency “on the run”, insurgents used assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades to attack a heavily guarded official ceremony n... » Bolivia: Civil war looms as oligarchy refuses negotiation

BOLIVIA As I write this article, the situation in Bolivia seems to be heading toward a civil war provoked by the secessionist attitude of the oligarchies in Santa Cruz and the other departments of the Half Moon (Tarija, Pando and Beni — in resource-rich eastern Bolivia), the prefect of Cochabamba and m... » United States: Anti-war strike shuts down ports

UNITED STATES According to the May 2 New York Times, ports on the US west coast were shut down on May 1 by dockworkers calling for an end to the US-led occupation of Iraq. » Mexico: Oil privatisation halted due to mass protests

MEXICO “The Adelitas have arrived/To defend our oil/Whoever wants to give it to the foreigners/ Will get the shit kicked out of him!” yodelled the brigades of women pouring onto the esplanade of the Mexican senate. The demonstration was to protest a petroleum privatisation measure President Felipe Cald... » The Bolivian acid test

BOLIVIA ALBA summit tackles food crisis

An extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), held on April 23, adopted a plan addressing the impact of rising food prices on Latin America’s poor. » Biofuels threaten global indigenous tribes

Below is an April 30 statement by Survival International (SI). Visit <http://survival-international.org>. » Egypt rocked by class struggle, food crisis

EGYPT One of the US government’s most important allies in the Middle East was shaken in early April by strikes and demonstrations over rising food prices. » Solomon Islands: report slams Australian-led intervetion

SOLOMON ISLANDS On July 24, 2003, the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) — an Australian-dominated force of police, military and bureaucrats — was deployed in the small island nation at the invitation of the Solomon Islands government. » Latin America: John Pilger on US covert war

Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world’s dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent — Latin America. » Global economic crisis: ‘No-one knows where the toxic debt is buried’ Iraq: US troop deaths hit seven month high

AFGHANISTAN The killings of four US soldiers in Iraq on April 30 pushed the US troop death toll for April up to 52, making it the deadliest month for the US occupation forces since last September, when 65 US soldiers were killed. US troop fatalities have now reached 4063 since the occupation began. » East Timorese rally for May Day

EAST TIMOR Indonesian rally demands Venezuelan-style nationalisation


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