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Green Left Weekly issue #751, 21 May 2008
Latin America has ‘created its own neighbourhood’

The drums of war are once again beginning to sound, as US imperialism steps up its propaganda attack on Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. » Bolivia: Recall referendums open new struggle

BOLIVIA A new period of uncertainty has opened in Bolivia with the initiation of recall referendums for the president and prefects of Bolivia’s nine departments by the opposition-controlled Senate. » Bush says starving India eats too much

INDIA Karl Marx, born nearly two centuries ago, had in 1867 (in the first volume of Capital) laid bare the “intimate connection between the pangs of hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which capitalist accumulat... » Afghanistan: Anti-occupation protesters shot by police

AFGHANISTAN Below is a May 10 article from the Earth Times. It is reprinted from http://rawa.org. » Starving Afghan families sell children

AFGHANISTAN The article below was originally from Tolo TV news. It was translated by the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan, see http://rawa.org. » Burmese junta gets in some violin practice while death toll climbs

BURMA “Ten days after Cyclone Nargis, Burma faces further crisis as its military regime refuses to acknowledge the plight of its people”, according to a statement released by seven pro-democracy groups in Burma on May 14. » France: Massive high school mobilisations against government attacks

FRANCE An expanded form of this article first appeared in Revista Corriente Alterna. The translation of this extract is by British group, Socialist Resistance. » Lebanon: Not civil war — war against the resistance

LEBANON Below is abridged from a May 12 post to » New Zealand: Broad left party strides ahead

NEW ZEALAND The Residents’ Action Movement has been growing rapidly in the last month (with around 100-300 people joining per week) as a result of the popularity of their key campaign — to remove the 12.5% goods and services tax on food. » Israel imposes economic crisis on Palestine

PALESTINE According to Nigel Roberts, World Bank country director for the West Bank and Gaza, closures of Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks that divide the West Bank “are the key factor behind today’s crisis in the West Bank. They have fragmented the economic space of Palestinians, raised the cost ... » United States: A leftward shift — seeing the forest through the sleaze

UNITED STATES Below is abridged from a May 13 US Socialist Worker editorial, <htpp://socialistworker.org>. » Venezuela stops open-cut and gold mines

VENEZUELA France: May ’68 — Students and workers’ revolt shakes the world

FRANCE In May and June of 1968, a movement erupted in France that threatened not just the survival of the government of President Charles De Gaulle but the system that it represented — capitalism. » Britain: Strongman Brown comes unstuck

BRITAIN In the May 1 local council elections in England and Wales, the ruling Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suffered its worst election defeat in 40 years. » US blocks Cuba-related websites

CUBA East Timor thanks Cuba

EAST TIMOR Indonesian activist offices attacked

INDONESIA Largest Palestinian protest since start of intifada

PALESTINE Below is an abridged statement by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Campaign. » United States: Protests against immigration raids

UNITED STATES @intro = Two hundred protesters from churches, unions and community groups marched and picketed outside the office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in downtown San Francisco on May 5. » Zimbabwe: regime cracks down on unionists

ZIMBABWE A May 13 statement from the Zimbabwe International Socialist Organisation (ISO) condemned “the arrest and detention of Zimbabwe congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Lovemore Matombo and Secretary General Wellington Chibhebhe on the 8th of May”. »


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