World

  • BOLIVIA: Right-wing push against Morales

    Federico Fuentes A growing conspiracy to destabilise the government of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to be reaching a climax. On September 1 right-wing opposition deputies withdrew from the country's constituent

  • NEW ZEALAND: A race to the bottom

    John Anderson The Sunbeam Corporation factory in Palmerston North is closing after more than 20 years production there. The seasonal staff will finish their season on June 25, and the plant will close shortly after, costing 122 workers their jobs,

  • VENEZUELA: Thousands march in GLBT pride parade

    Michael Fox, Caracas Thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people marched in this year's GLBT Pride parade in Caracas on July 2. This marks the sixth year in a row that Venezuela has held a gay pride parade. The colorful and

  • VENEZUELA: 1200 buildings face expropriation

    Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Around 2000 Caracas tenants met in the Teresa Carreno complex on August 26 to demand the full implementation of the Law on Expropriations, which promises to convert a million renters into owners of their

  • BRAZIL: A year is a long time

    Raul Bassi Because it is so directly dominated by US imperialism, it's in Latin America that the struggle against global neoliberalism has developed to the maximum. The dismal failure of neoliberal policies across the continent has left country

  • INDIA: Mumbai bombings 'mindless carnage'

    In response to the bombing of seven trains in Mumbai on July 11, which killed some 200 people and wounded hundreds more, the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) made the following statement. The CPI(ML) condemns in the strongest words the

  • CANADA: First soldier refuses to serve in Afghanistan

    Jeff Shantz The Canadian government, under both Liberal and Conservative parties, has moved quickly over the last two years to prosecute on immigration charges, and to seek deportations of, several US soldiers who fled to Canada as war resisters.

  • VENEZUELA: New coup plot uncovered

    Robyn Marshall, Caracas On the morning of May 9, the government television channel announced that 55 Colombian paramilitaries had been captured by Venezuelan national investigative police, DISIP, at a farm in Baruta, a municipality in southeastern

  • DENMARK: Socialists arrested for solidarity

    Kerryn Williams On February 20, four members of the Left Socialist party (VS) were arrested and three others had arrest orders issued against them. The activists were accused of violating the section of Denmark's criminal code relating to support

  • In brief

    UNITED STATES: Feds launch new attack on Indymedia On October 8, the FBI issued an order to internet provider Rackspace to hand over the hard drives of the servers in the US and Britan that host a number of Indymedia sites. More than 20 Indymedia

  • VENEZUELA: Army chief warns of US 'war threat'

    Jim McIlroy& Coral Wynter, Caracas General Raul Isaias Baduel, commander-in-chief of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (FAN) and a key figure in restoring President Hugo Chavez to power after the April 2002 US-backed coup, warned that "One scenario that

  • UNITED STATES: Will Bush free a right-wing terrorist?

    Nicole Colson, Chicago On September 12, US magistrate Norbert Garney recommended releasing 79-year-old Luis Posada Carriles from the Texas detention centre where he has been held since last year on immigration charges. Posada is an anti-Castro Cuban