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Green Left Weekly issue #755, 18 June 2008
Ireland: Anti-war activists acquitted, arms manufacturer exposed

IRELAND The six anti-war activists who occupied arms manufacturer Raytheon’s offices in Derry and destroyed its computers — part of the Raytheon 9 who took part in the action — have been acquitted by a jury in Belfast on June 11. » Nepal: How to oust a king

NEPAL Nepal, a small landlocked nation in the Himalayas wedged between China and India, is an incredibly poor and underdeveloped nation. » Guam: The invisible colony’s struggle for survival

GUAM Two representatives of Guam’s Chamoru people are visiting Australia. Lisa Natividad and Julian Aguon are fighting against the militarisation of their land by the US. » Ireland: EU treaty rejected

The pro-corporate European Union Lisbon treaty has been rejected by voters in a referendum in the Republic of Ireland, according to a June 13 BBC.co.uk report. » Venezuela: ‘Capitalism behind biggest food crisis known’

VENEZUELA Venezuela, along with Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia, criticised the final declaration of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Summit in Rome on June 5, arguing that the document failed to identify the true causes of rising food prices, such as agricultural su... » Cuito Cuanavale: Cuba strikes for Africa’s freedom

ANGOLA This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World War, the South African Defence Forces (SADF) were humiliatingly defeated by liberation forces in An... » Indonesia: Left confronts fuel price hike

INDONESIA Fuel price hikes have always sparked widespread mass protests in Indonesia since the overthrow of the dictator Suharto in a popular uprising in 1998. However, the timing this year was special. » Pakistan: Thousands join lawyers’ ‘long march’

PAKISTAN “I am on a bus roof top for two hours. I cannot tell how many have started from Lahore for the Long March to Islamabad but everywhere there are heads and heads. It is going beyond our expectations.” » Global support for Cuba Five grows

UNITED STATES On June 5, the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five — the five Cubans who infiltrated right-wing anti-Cuban terrorist groups in Miami and have been imprisoned in the US since 1997 — issued a statement condemning the decision the previous day by an Atlanta court of appe... » US: Penobscots struggle, with Venezuelan help

UNITED STATES “The Penobscot Nation is committed to continue our efforts until the fish, wildlife and plants are safe to eat, and the sacredness is restored to the river. Only then will our culture be whole again …” » Venezuela: Recycling workers’ struggle for justice

VENEZUELA “Once they got their wages, [the workers] occupied the installations and demanded that the company go, then they occupied the offices and demanded that the administration of Sincreba [Merida Waste Incineration and Recycling System] retire”, Simon Rodriguez told Green Left Weekly on the peaceful ... » John Pilger: The West betrays Burma

BURMA The voices of those who know how to help Burma are all but extinguished by a virus called the “war on terror”. » Colombia appears before ILO over unionist killings

COLOMBIA Below is a June 3 statement from the International Trade Union Confederation. Visit http://www.ituc-csi.org. » Iraq: Sadrists mobilise against occupation

IRAQ “We talked about Iraq, how Iraq is changing for the better, how people are beginning to realize the blessings of a free and peaceful society” — such statements from US President George Bush started looking increasingly surreal for even the most fervent supporters of the Iraq invasion ... » Philippines joins global fuel price protests

PHILIPPINES A Filipino left activist wrote in a June 12 post on the Green Left discussion list: “The fuel-hike protests in the Philippines are now underway. As I write 100 trucks and 500 pedi-cab (tricycle drivers) are marching to Mendiola, Malacanang Palace. » Turkey: Tuzla shipyard workers’ struggle

TURKEY The Tuzla Shipyards in Istanbul entered the spotlight last year with the back-to-back deaths of five workers in 12 days. Most recently, on May 18, a 31-year-old welder, Murat Caliskan, was sacrificed in the drive for profit. »


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