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Green Left Weekly issue #753, 4 June 2008
Afghanistan: Why the occupation needs to end

AFGHANISTAN The anti-war movement must step up its campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan. » Bolivia: Indigenous leaders beaten and publicly humiliated

BOLIVIA Bolivia may have its first-ever indigenous president, but racism is alive and well in this country, as demonstrated by the public humiliation of a group of around 50 indigenous mayors, town councillors and community leaders in the south-central city of Sucre. » Venezuela: Big stakes in November elections

VENEZUELA Following the December 2 constitutional reform referendum defeat — the first for the forces of the Bolivarian revolution since the election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 1998 — and facing popular discontent at the problems holding back the advance of the process of change, the pro... » Palestine: Partition the road to conflict, equality the road to peace

PALESTINE It is an almost unquestioned orthodoxy that the only way there could be a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is through the creation of two separate states. » Clean development mechanism — a discredited strategy

The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the United Nations, administered by the World Bank and is intended to reduce emissions by rewarding developing countries that invest in clean technologies. » Germany: ‘We have the wind of history in our sails’

GERMANY After a year of stellar successes, almost 600 delegates from Germany’s new left-wing party, Die Linke, came together for the party’s first ever congress, held in the east German city of Cottbus on May 25 and 26. » Israeli soldier: ‘Body a day’

Breaking the Silence is an organisation of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies from soldiers who have served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the start of the Second Intifada in September 2000. A number of these testimonies are posted on its website, http://breakingthesil... » Nepal: Republic begins, monarchy ends

NEPAL On May 28, Nepal entered a new era when the constituent assembly — in its first meeting since the April 10 elections — overwhelming voted to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy and declare Nepal a democratic republic. » South Africa: Behind the xenophobic killings

SOUTH AFRICA South Africa, up until the recent outbreak of xenophobic violence, was one of the rare, relatively stable African countries where refugees like myself could expect their basic rights to be protected. » From H-Block to a Texas jail

UNITED STATES Twenty-six years ago, Pol Brennan was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in the infamous H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison, watching his friends die on hunger strike. Today, he is in solitary confinement in a Texas immigration holding centre. » Britain: New Labour crashes in Crewe

BRITAIN The New Labour government headed by PM Gordon Brown sank deeper into crisis after it lost the Crewe and Nantwich by-election — occasioned by the death of the sitting MP Gwyneth Dunwoody — to the Conservatives on May 22. » Manuel Marulanda — 1930-2008

COLOMBIA Pedro Antonio Marin, better know as Manuel Marulanda and “Tiro Fijo” (Sure Shot), was the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP). » Iranian sugarcane workers seek solidarity

IRAN From the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network, http://iwsn.org. » South Africa: Marching for justice

SOUTH AFRICA Below is an abridged May 26 statement by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF). »


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