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  • CHINA: Capitalist restoration worsens inequality

    Eva Cheng The gap between the rich and poor in China, which started to widen when Beijing embarked on the pro-market reforms in the late 1970s, has now widened to an unprecedented level. According to a recent study by China's National Development

  • VENEZUELA: Oil, revolution and socialism

    Luis Tascon is a leading Venezuelan parliamentarian and a founding member of the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR). The MVR is the main parliamentary party supporting socialist President Hugo Chavez and the revolutionary process he is leading,

  • In brief

    ZIMBABWE: 78 women arrested at rally An attempt to protest on World Refugee Day in Bulawayo was met by fierce repression on June 19 as participants and bystanders were arrested for "holding an illegal gathering". Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) said

  • IRAQ: US, Britain push for Jaafari's ouster

    Doug Lorimer "Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers", the April 1 Los Angeles Times reported, adding that "Shiite religious leaders throughout the country ... condemned a March

  • BOLIVIA: Morales overcomes gas crisis

    Federico Fuentes After facing his toughest challenge since his January 22 inauguration, President Evo Morales has seemingly come out the victor in a debate over the viability of the nationalisation of Bolivia's gas, but not without some bruising.

  • GREECE: 94% believe Iraq war made world more dangerous

    A VPRC poll conducted on march 14-15 and published in Kathimerini on March 18 found that 94% of those surveyed believe the world is a more dangerous place as a result of the war on Iraq. Just 3% of Greeks believe the decision to invade Iraq was

  • CUBA: Fourteenth Non Aligned Movement summit

    The Non Aligned Movement — which draws together 115 Third World nations in opposition to domination by rich nations of the First World — will hold its 14th summit on September 14-15 in Havana. Cuba will assume for a second time the presidency of

  • IRAQ: US, UN begin 'handover' charade

    Doug Lorimer On June 30, the US-British Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that currently rules Iraq will hand over governance of the country to a new US embassy headed by John Negroponte. This embassy will be staffed by 1200 US officials and

  • IRAN: Bus drivers released, protests continue

    Five bus drivers from the executive board of the Tehran bus drivers' union and metalworker Sattar Amini were released from jail on March 18 and 19. Yet the union's leader Mansoor Ossanlou, as well as auto worker Afshin Bahrami, are still being

  • VENEZUELA: Chavez calls for new revolutionary party

    Federico Fuentes At the September 9 swearing-in of the members of the Miranda Command, Venezuela's left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, called for the creation of the "great party of the Bolivarian revolution" to unite the groups that support

  • ACEH: Martial law ends but troops remain

    Pip Hinman Jakarta's decision to lift martial law in Aceh, in favour of an "emergency status", won't change the lives of ordinary Acehnese for the better, according to a leader of the Acehnese community in Australia. Nurdin, who was once imprisoned