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Green Left Weekly issue #750, 14 May 2008
Bolivia: Fraud, violence and mass resistance marks right-wing push

BOLIVIA A day of violence, fraud and a “grand rebellion” against the Santa Cruz oligarchy. » United States: Innocent Black man's murderers walk free and an anti-racist preacher is the problem?

UNITED STATES On April 25, the three cops who murdered African American Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets in New York were acquitted of all charges. » United States: ‘We are all Sean Bell’

UNITED STATES Coordinated acts of nonviolent civil disobedience took place at six different locations across the city May 7 in a protest against the not-guilty verdict for three police officers who shot and killed unarmed African American man Sean Bell with 50 bullets — on the night before his wedding. » Venezuela: Steelworkers win, gold miners fight

VENEZUELA “The workers feel that what we achieved was a great triumph”, said Jose Melendez, the finance secretary for the United Steel Industry Workers’ Union (SUTISS), on the signing of a new contract for the Sidor steel plant’s workforce with the Venezuelan government, according to a May... » Changes in Cuba?

CUBA The Western press has been untiring with respect to the changes happening in Cuba after Raul Castro’s election as president of the Republic and have celebrated a possible liberalisation of the island’s economy. » Burma: Regime worsens suffering from cyclone

BURMA Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat. » Ecuador: `Executed in cold blood'

ECUADOR According to a May 7 Prensa Latina report, the Ecuadorian government has denounced Colombia following the release of evidence that the Colombian military had executed four prisoners as part of its infamous March 1 assault on a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that was within... » Iraq: Hundreds die in US assault on Sadr City

IRAQ “Deaths and injuries are soaring in Sadr City as US troops increase their military and economic pressure” on the Iraqi capital’s huge Shiite slum district, the English-language website of Baghdad Azzaman daily reported on May 5. » Nepal: Republican resurgence led by the red flag

NEPAL Originally published in Liberation, the magazine of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist Liberation. A longer version can be found at the socialist e-journal, Links, http://links.org.au. » New Zealand activists damage US spy base

NEW ZEALAND Below is a statement from the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Visit http://space4peace.org. » Venezuela proposes food bank for Latin America

Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro proposed that Latin American countries create a food bank to counter food supply problems and that oil profits of the region go towards a new food fund. Maduro made the proposal during the Food summit held in Nicaragua on May 7. » Behind the food crisis: 'capitalism's historical failure’

“If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave”, a demonstrator said in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that’s OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we’ll die of hunger.” » Remembering the Palestinian Nakba

PALESTINE East Timor: Governing coalition on brink of collapse

A realignment of political forces appears to be underway in East Timor, with the signing of an agreement for a strategic alliance for future elections between the largest party in parliament, the Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin), and the Timorese Social Democratic Association... » El Salvador: Suspects arrested for leftist mayor’s murder

EL SALVADOR Below is an abridged April 30 Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) article. Visit http://cispes.org. » South Korea:The general election and left-wing politics

SOUTH KOREA For the South Korean left, the April 9 general election was another fiasco following the presidential election last December, in which the election of Lee Myung-bak brought forth the return of the conservative government. Democratic Labor Party (DLP) candidate Kwon Young-gil received just 3%, less t... »


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