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BY CHRIS KERR The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is not just a national phenomenon, it is impacted upon greatly by international developments, particularly the US-led campaign against it. In 2002, the US government stepped up its intervention
BY DANNY FAIRFAX Denouncing the arrest of Jose Bove, one of the most high profile global justice activists in France, 3000 people protested in the town of Millau, the major population centre of Bove's home region Aveyron, on June 28. Bove, a
BY DALE MILLS The European Commission for Human Rights, Europe's senior human rights court, ruled in a judgment delivered on July 1 that the British investigation into the murder of civil rights solicitor Patrick Finucane was flawed. Finucane was
BY KEEF TOMKINSON From its birth, the Scottish Socialist Party has called on trade unions to break their link with the British Labour Party. On July 1, the 65,000-strong British Rail Maritime and Transport union decided that branches could affiliate
BY MICHAEL ARNOLD "End the drug war now" say needle nymphs in New York, methed-up militants in Moscow, direct-action druggists in Darwin, cranked-out campaigners in Canberra and global goodie-gobblers. On June 12, drug user activists, non-user
BY ROLANDO PEREZ BETANCOURT HAVANA — Without ceremony from those who, during the Cold War, exalted him as if he were a god of letters, Englishman George Orwell reaches his 100th birthday. Orwell was the great critic of the Soviet state and of
Protest against raids on Iranian oppositionists MELBOURNE — On July 1, 60 people attended a protest against detention of members of the pro-imperialist People's Mujaheddin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and Australian Federal Police raids on
BY EVA CHENG On July 28-30, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will hold yet another "mini-ministerial" — its fourth since the Doha ministerial summit in November 2001 launched a new round of global trade talks. The meeting, in Montreal, is
On July 4, the anniversary of the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence in what was to become the USA, activists in the US, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and other countries took action to protest the US and British governments'
BY DOUG LORIMER On July 8, the parliament of the Solomon Islands is expected to approve an Australian-led military and police intervention into its country. The proposal was endorsed by the foreign ministers and government leaders of all 16 Pacific

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