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Stuart Munckton Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has attempted to implement policies that benefit the working majority via redistributing the nation's oil wealth. Despite being the fifth largest supplier of oil in the world, when

Nine protesters were arrested and charged on August 9 after occupying the Derry base of Raytheon, a US company that produces software for "Guided Missile Units" (GBU), according to a report by Britain's Socialist Worker. GBUs are being used by Israel

Roberto Jorquera Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on June 4 that opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had managed to collect enough valid signatures to demand a recall referendum for the presidency. Martin Sanchez

Fred Fuentes Mass protests are shaking Bolivia, forcing interim President Carlos Mesa to back down from his threat not to authorise any new bills until his hydrocarbon law was passed, unamended and without discussion. Mesa had claimed that the

Alex Miller A British Royal Air Force officer is facing a court martial after refusing to return to Iraq on the grounds that the war is illegal. The October 17 British Guardian reported that Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is facing four

The following article is abridged from an entry by Gaza City resident Mona El-Farra in her blog, From Gaza, With Love (<http://fromgaza.blogspot.com&#062;). August 1 — Today the Israeli Occupying Forces redeployed into the area south-east of

Ali Abunimah Things must be bad in Palestine, when the United States allows a resolution to pass in the UN Security Council condemning Israeli actions, as it did late on May 19. By 14-0, with the United States abstaining, the council adopted

Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel's most prominent "new historians". In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of

On October 19, amid accusations of bribery, Colombia's Constitutional Court gave right-wing President Alvaro Uribe the green light to seek a second term in office. Previously, it was impossible for a president to stand for re-election. Uribe is a key

A 39-day-long strike by some 15,000 power-loom workers in the town of Gojra ended in a stunning victory on August 15 when textile bosses agreed to raise workers' wages from 97 rupees (US$1.61) to 160 rupees ($2.66) per day. They also conceded to

Rupen Savoulian In a spectacularly defiant act, on May 9, Chechen rebels killed the Russian-sponsored president of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, by remote-controlled bomb in a stadium where dignitaries were gathered to commemorate the 59th anniversary

Malik Miah, San Francisco Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the trade unions in the United States were regarded by working people as the preeminent vehicles for the defence of labour's interests because they won the best wages, health