Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in recent months as the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) attempts to capture areas of northern Sri Lanka held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group that has fought for 30 years for self-determination for the Tamil people.
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On November 23, we will not just be voting for this or that governorship, we will be deciding the destiny of this revolutionary process, Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) militant, told Green Left Weekly.
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Between October 15 and 17, thousands of West Papuans held rallies for self-determination in several parts of this Melanesian nation that has been occupied by Indonesia since 1962.
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Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former’s role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.
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There is no doubt that October 21, 2008, will go down as a historic day for the Bolivian people.
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In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, US President George Bush declared an open-ended, apparently indefinite “war on terror”.
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On October 29, the UN General Assembly approved by an overwhelming majority the resolution demanding an end of the US blockade of Cuba the 17th consecutive year running such a vote as been passed by the assembly.
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Six months ago the United States was already deep in a financial crisis. Yet, the conditions now are several orders of magnitude worse and are affecting the entire world.
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A far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis.
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The below article is based on a paper presented on October 8 by Eric Toussaint to the international Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis seminar held in Caracas. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes and is abridged from socialist e-journal Links, Links. Toussaint is from the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt.
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Theyve been trying to solve problems by using only money, but not to solve the political problems through political means, that theyve failed, Fretilin leader Mari Alkatiri, told Radio Australia on October 26.
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It was a powerful symbol. At the New York summit meeting at the UN General Assembly on September 22, the first point on the agenda was forgotten amid the financial crisis.