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Green Left Weekly issue #800, 29 June 2009
Nepal: Student leader speaks on struggle for change

Ben Peterson is a Green Left Weekly correspondent in Kathmandu. He spoke with Manushi Bhattarai, who was part of the Maoist ticket that won student elections at Tribhuvan University —Nepal’s largest. She discussed the revolution, recent developments, the international situation and the role of y... » Honduras: Coup attempt threatens democracy

An attempted coup has broken out in Honduras in the lead-up to a referendum scheduled for June 28. The referendum is on whether a further vote should be held to decide to re-write the Central American nation’s constitution. » Honduras: Indigenous people condemn plot

The article below is abridged from a June 24 statement by the Civic Council of People’s and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). » Peru: Blood for rubber, blood for oil

At the turn of the twentieth century, global demand for rubber from the upper reaches of the Amazon (encompassing Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian territory) was at its height. » Latin America’s Bolivarian alliance grows

In a summit in Venezuela on June 24, the Caribbean and South American integration organisation ALBA was strengthened by the addition of Ecuador, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda as its newest member countries. » Who will control Iraq’s oil?

Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government’s plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and revenues. » Coup and mass resistance in Honduras: Eva Golinger blogs live

Eva Golinger, whose 2006 book The Chavez Code exposed the role of the US in the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew the democratically elected Venezuelan government, is blogging continuously on the situation in Honduras. » Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change

Daily protests have continued in Iran against alleged vote-rigging in the June 12 presidential elections, despite an intensification of violent repression. » John Pilger: The system is corrupt

The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. » Military coup in Honduras as elected president kidnapped — Obama's first coup?

Eva Golinger's blog contains constantly updated information on this military overthrow of an elected president. There are amass protests on the streets and unions have called a general strike. A leftist Congressperson and presidential candidate is reported murdered by the military. The coup has been... » El Salvador: Evangelical fundamentalism and the right

At last, after decades of brutal right-wing rule, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won El Salvador's March 15 presidential election. » France: Thousands protest against financial crisis

More than 150,000 people joined protests in France on June 13 against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government to make working people carry the costs of the global economic crisis. » German students strike for better education

A week of education strikes across Germany peaked on June 17 when up to 240,000 students ditched classes in 90 cities to demand improved conditions and funding. » Record 1 billion people going hungry

The British Morning Star said on June 21 that the United Nations has warned that the global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world’s hungry to a record 1 billion. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said this is an increase of 11% from last year. » South Africa: Balance shifts left, anger grows

With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township “service delivery protests”, rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa. » Sri Lanka: Facts lost in the dusk of war

Despite the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which waged an armed struggle for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka’s north-east, life for the Tamil minority remains one of oppression and suffering. » United States: Top climate scientist arrested in anti-coal protest

NASA climate scientist James Hansen was among the 29 people arrested for trespass at an anti-coal mining protest in Raleigh County, West Virginia on June 23. » Wildcat strikes by British oil workers

“Hundreds of workers at sites up and down the country have launched unofficial action over the last two weeks in support of 650 colleagues at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery who were dismissed”, Sky News said on June 25. »


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