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  • BOLIVIA: Neoliberal era about to end?

    Federico Fuentes, La Paz This year marks the 20th anniversary of the implementation of Decree 21060, which heralded the dawning of the era of neoliberal "free market" policies in Bolivia. According to Jim Schultz, executive director of the

  • CUBA: Still standing up to Uncle Sam

    Roberto Jorquera July 26 marks the 51st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks. The attack, led by Fidel Castro, is regarded in Cuba as the event that initiated the six-year struggle to oust the US-backed capitalist regime of Fulgencio

  • INDIA: Fund appeal for woman leader struck by cancer

    Long-time activist and national secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association Ajanta Lohit was diagnosed recently with liver cancer after suffering from breast cancer since 2001. Chemotherapy has begun with the support of impoverished

  • Chinese uranium activist disappeared

    Graham Matthews Sun Xiaodi, a former miner at the Gansu No. 72 Uranium Mine in Chinese-controlled Tibet, remains "missing" over six months after he was abducted, following an interview with an AFP journalist in Beijing on April 28. Sun had

  • UNITED STATES: Church alliance denounces Iraq war

    On February 18, the 43 US members of the World Council of Churches issued a statement denouncing the US-led war on Iraq "launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights. We mourn all who have died or been injured in this

  • Getting away with murder in Iraq

    Tariq Ali Before the war, they said Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the West. Those of us who opposed the war said this was a lie. US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian PM John Howard

  • BRITAIN: Police shoot man in "anti-terror" raid

    Alex Miller In a near-repeat of the incident last July in which innocent electrician Jean Claude De Menezes was shot and killed at point-blank range by British armed police, Mohammed Abdul Kahar was shot in the chest during a June 2 "anti-terror"

  • VENEZUELA: Paper factory under workers' control

    Nick Everett In September last year, the owners of Venepal, a paper mill in Venezuela's Carabobo state, decided to cease operations and not pay their workers' wages. A year later the paper mill, now known as Invepal (Venezuelan Endogenous Paper

  • AFGHANISTAN: 340 US air strikes in three months

    The Washington Post reported on June 18 that 340 air strikes have been carried out by US forces in Afghanistan over the past three months. According to a Reuters report, more than double the number of air strikes were carried out in Afghanistan than

  • Venezuelan union supports Australian workers' struggle

    The following is an abridged message of solidarity issued by Venezuela's National Union of Workers (UNT). The National Union of Workers of Venezuela backs the actions of the Australian workers in their struggle against the anti-union laws being

  • PALESTINE: Abbas' referendum aims to undermine Hamas

    Kim Bullimore In a dangerous game of brinkmanship with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the main opposition Fatah party, issued a presidential decree on June 10

  • UNITED STATES: Anti-war Iraq veteran faces expulsion

    Dave Airhart, an anti-war activist and an Iraq war veteran, is being threatened with expulsion from Kent State University for his anti-war activities. On October 19, the Kent State Anti-War Committee disrupted US Army recruiters as they attempted to