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Green Left Weekly issue #756, 25 June 2008
Evo to EU: Stop attacks on migrants

BOLIVIA Below is an open letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the European Union, appealing to it not to adopt the racist anti-immigrant “Return Directive”, which was voted up on June 18. This is abridged from http://boliviarising.blogspot.com. » Chavez threatens to cut Europe’s oil over racist law

In response to the extreme, racist anti-immigrant “Return Directive” law, passed by the European parliament on June 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to stop oil sales to any country that applied the directive. » The three social forces to stop climate change

This piece on “tasks for ecosocialists in building a global movement against ecological destruction”, was posted at http://climateandcapitalism.com on June 10. It will be published as an editorial in a coming edition of British magazine Socialist Resistance. » Philippines: Dealing with the oil crisis

PHILIPPINES Our dependency on oil has never been more excruciating than it is today. » Solomon Islands: Cuban doctors a ‘blessing’

SOLOMON ISLANDS Here is a good news story. » United States: Cuban Five appeal dismissed, Posada exhibits artworks

UNITED STATES On June 5 the Eleventh Circuit of Atlanta’s Court of Appeals upheld the federal convictions for conspiracy against the Cuban Five — five Cuban citizens held in US prisons since their arrest on September 12, 1998. » Bolivian ‘Minister of death’ gets US asylum — Why they let the cockroach in

BOLIVIA The article below, by Jean-Guy Allard, is reprinted from Cuban newspaper Granma on June 16. According to a June 18 Xinhuanet.com article, thousands of people protested outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, against the decision and demanding Carlos Sanchez Berzain’s extradition — promp... » Iranian sugar workers struggle, solidarity needed

IRAN Workers in Iran face massive repression when attempting to organise to defend their rights. » Ireland: The people have spoken

IRELAND It started out as a good day for justice and rapidly became a good day for democracy too. » Malaysia: Fuel heats governmental crisis

MALAYSIA The National Front (BN) government led by PM Abdullah Badawi has been shaky since the March general election that returned a much stronger parliamentary opposition — now largely united in a new People’s Front (Pakatan Rakyat). » Zimbabwe: Behind ‘Comrade’ Mugabe’s regime

ZIMBABWE The ZANU-PF government of President Robert Mugabe has its origins in the liberation struggle against the white supremacist Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith. How did a government that emerged from a mass struggle for liberation degenerate into the dictatorship that exists today? » Peace requires justice — end the Gaza siege

PALESTINE Despite raids by Israel that left six people dead in the Gaza Strip and numerous rockets launched by Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad the previous day, a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza took effect on June 19. At the official start of the ceasefire at 6am, both si... » Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative

Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. Green Left Weekly published the first part in #750. Both parts are reprinted from http://socialistvoice.ca. The author edits http://climateandcapitalism.com. » Venezuela: What a pro-worker government looks like

VENEZUELA This year’s May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela, the seventh brigade from Australia to be organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), had 12 participants representing various unions. One of those was Chris Spindler, an organiser for the Victorian Australian Manufacturing Wo... » Britain: ‘Humiliating victory’ in war on civil liberties

BRITAIN On June 11, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposals to extend the time that police are allowed to detain “terrorist suspects” without charge narrowly scraped through a vote in the House of Commons. The MP vote was 315 to 306 to back Brown’s proposal to extend the limit on... »


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