Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Spokespeople for the main Venezuelan left parties that are campaigning for the re-election of socialist President Hugo Chavez on December 3 have generally supported Chavez's September 9 call for the formation of a
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Barry Sheppard, San Francisco Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader named long-time activist Peter Miguel Camejo as his vice-presidential running mate at a press conference in Washington, DC on June 21. The announcement was covered by
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Max Lane, Jakarta On July 23, 1500 people attended a rally at the National Library of Indonesia to publicly launch a new political party — the Preparatory Committee of the National Liberation Party of Unity (KP-Papernas) — for the 2009
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Up to 10,000 people, including veterans carrying photos of US soldiers killed in Iraq, march in San Francisco on June 5 to demand an end to the occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Haiti. Simultaneous anti-occupation marches attracted up to 7000
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Eva Cheng In response to the moral outrage among broad sections of the populations of developed capitalist countries at the growing inequality of wealth and living standards between the rich "First World" countries and poor "Third World" countries,
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Ron Guy A wall can take many forms. It can be the 2400 kilometres of earth — and estimated three million landmines — that separate the Western Saharan people from their homeland. Or it can be a wall of silence. Recently, I joined a delegation
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On June 24, draft legislation was presented to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress — China's rubber-stamp law-making body — that would require reporters to ask for official permission before reporting on incidents of
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On December 1, South Africa's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that same-sex marriages have equal status with those between men and women. The court stayed its ruling for one year, so that parliament may amend a 1961 marriage law to reflect the
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Sam Pillay Seven days after India's voters ditched the Hindu chauvinist BJP-led government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh was shown in as India's 14th prime minister, at the head of a new Congress Party-led government. The
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On June 29, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) picketed the Johannesburg offices of BHP Billiton in solidarity with Australian unions fighting against the government's draconian anti-worker laws. A COSATU statement noted that "These
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On November 19, Cuban-born Santiago Alvarez Magrina was detained in Miami by federal US authorities. Alvarez is linked to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was behind the bombing of a commercial airliner that killed 73 people. A stockpile of
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Leonel Vivas Since President Hugo Chavez won five years ago a national election with an overwhelming majority, a revolution is developing in my country — a very original revolution is being made by peaceful and democratic means, without violence,