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  • Honduras: Resistance says elections illegitimate

    Although the international community has warned it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya said the vote would go ahead.

  • Paraguay: Marches call for Lugo to act

    The anniversary of the first year of President Fernando Lugo’s government coincided with a five-day national protest over August 10-15 organised by the United Popular Space (EUP). The EUP is a coalition of many social organisations and left parties, with the support of figures from diverse political sectors, including the governor of the department of San Pedro, Jose Pakova Ledesma, from the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA).

  • Afghanistan war: Global oposition grows

    In the wake of the bombing of two oil tankers by the occupying NATO forces, and farcical elections controlled by warlords, international public opinion is turning against the US-led war in Afghanistan.

  • Video: Mr Zelaya goes to Washington

    September 6 Real News program, "Mr Zelaya goes to Washington" documents the trip by Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown in a June 28 military coup, to the the United States, as well as the ongoing resistance in Honduras.

  • French workers sentenced over redundancy protests

    French courts have sentenced six workers to suspended sentences of between three and six months as a consequence of union protests in April against Continental’s decision to close its tyre plant in Clairox.

  • Israel: Palestinians call general strike

    The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million “Israeli Arab” citizens (as Palestinians living inside Israel are termed) citizens to call the first general strike in several years.

  • US State Department bankrolls young Venezuelans to slander Chavez

    In the midst of an international campaign launched against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, carried out by the extreme right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organised and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the US.

  • John Pilger: Lockerbie and the framing of Megrahi

    The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain.

  • East Timor: Protests over Horta's comments, militia leader's release

    East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta’s comments on August 30 rejecting an international tribunal to bring those responsible for war crimes in East Timor to justice, and the release on the same day of militia leader Maternus Bere, continue to resonate in East Timor.

  • Ireland: British hypocrisy in IRA compensation call

    The article below is by the Irish republican party Sinn Fein president and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Belfast Gerry Adams. Adams discusses the hypocrisy of British government demands for compensation over armed actions carried out by the Irish Republican Army, as part of its struggle for a united Ireland free from British control, in recent decades. It is abridged from Adams’ blog.