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Green Left Weekly issue #773, 5 November 2008
Venezuela: ‘Our votes are for Chavez and the revolution’

“On November 23, we will not just be voting for this or that governorship, we will be deciding the destiny of this revolutionary process”, Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) militant, told Green ... » Sri Lanka: War on Tamils escalates

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in recent months as the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) attempts to capture areas of northern Sri Lanka held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group that has fought for 30 years for self-determination for the Tamil people. » Bolivia: Compromise agreement allows progress

There is no doubt that October 21, 2008, will go down as a historic day for the Bolivian people. » Bolivia: US intervention exposed

Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former’s role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales. » Bush is gone, now end the ‘war on terror’

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, US President George Bush declared an open-ended, apparently indefinite “war on terror”. » US elections: History is made

The United States Socialist Worker is maintaining an online election journal and analysis of the November 4 vote. Below is the account posted by SW journalist Alan Maas at 11pm on November 4 on the impact of the victory for Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama, who has become the first African Am... » Latin American integration — an alternative to capitalist crisis?

The below article is based on a paper presented on October 8 by Eric Toussaint to the international Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis seminar held in Caracas. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes and is abridged from socialist e-journal Links, Links. Toussaint is from the C... » ‘Capitalism has reached its limits’

Six months ago the United States was already deep in a financial crisis. Yet, the conditions now are several orders of magnitude worse and are affecting the entire world. » African resistance to global finance

A far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis. » Cuba: UN votes again to end blockade

On October 29, the UN General Assembly approved by an overwhelming majority the resolution demanding an end of the US blockade of Cuba — the 17th consecutive year running such a vote as been passed by the assembly. » In Africa, a tale of two bailouts

It was a powerful symbol. At the New York summit meeting at the UN General Assembly on September 22, the first point on the agenda was forgotten amid the financial crisis. » Ongoing instability in East Timor

“They’ve been trying to solve problems by using only money, but not to solve the political problems through political means, that they’ve failed”, Fretilin leader Mari Alkatiri, told Radio Australia on October 26. » United States: New Kissinger transcripts declassified

Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger’s recorded telephone conversations (“telecons”) relating to Chile in the early 1970s permit us to “eavesdrop on the most candid conversations of … US officials as they plotted covert intervention against a democratically elected government&... » West Papua: Thousands brave military to rally for self-determination

The article below has been reprinted from http://asia-pacific-action.org. »


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