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Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas "The Venezuelan revolution is a very popular mobilisation, which was revealed especially in the opposition to the counter-revolutionary coup in April 2002 and the bosses' strike of early 2003", Pedro Eusse,

On July 2, Bolivia held historic elections for representatives to a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the constitution, fulfilling what has long been a key demand of Bolivia's indigenous poor and social movements. President Evo Morales and his party,

The New Caledonian islands lie 1200 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. A French territory that is co-governed by a provincial New Caledonian parliament and the French government, New Caledonia (or Kanaky) is a biodiversity

Derrick O'Keefe Just in case the idea is taking root that the US policy of empire building is the invention of the current gang of neo-conservative hawks in power, one need only conduct a cursory examination of the history of Cuba. With world

Michael Fox, Caracas On August 6, from the state of Bolivar, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the recuperation of the largest latifundio (plantation) in the country, and the creation of what he termed the new "socialist production unit",

Stuart Munckton Israel is "killing innocent children and whole families". "They dismantled the legitimate government of Palestine, and thwarted tremendous efforts to achieve peace and establish a Palestinian state", Venezuela's socialist President

Norm Dixon The African National Congress-led Johannesburg City Council is attempting to evict two of South Africa's leading activist organisations from their premises in the city's Newtown arts precinct. On July 1, more than 50 activists gathered

Vannessa Hearman Solidarity organisations in the United States and East Timor have accused the Australian government of holding up the extension and expansion of the United Nations mission in East Timor, in particular the deployment of peacekeeping

David Bacon In a Service Employees Union hall in Boston, a hospital worker raises her hand. "If Saddam Hussein was such a bad guy", she asks, "why is the US enforcing his law banning unions in Iraq?" Since January, workers like this orderly have

Gregory Wilpert, Caracas Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA took over seven oil fields in early April, which were previously run by foreign oil companies. Five of these fields were ceded to PDVSA intentionally and the others — one run by

Doug Lorimer "The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time", an unnamed "senior" US defence department official, speaking "off the

Doug Lorimer On June 16, Reuters reported that rebel Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader Sayed Moqtada al Sadr had issued a statement calling on his Mahdi Army militia fighters in Najaf to abide by the terms of a frequently broken June 4 ceasefire agreement