Given everything that is occurring in Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni, we have to denounce
that we are on the threshold of a real coup detat against the constitutional order, announced Bolivian minister of the presidency, Ramon Quintana, on August 7.
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Speaking on his weekly program Alo Presidente on August 3, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced important steps towards unity of pro-revolution parties in the lead-up to the November 23 regional elections.
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More than 10,000 peasants rallied on August 4 in Okara, Punjab demanding the withdrawal of false charges of murder against the leaders of Tenant Association of Punjab (AMP).
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Announcing the nationalisation of Banco de Venezuela, which will now be put at the service of the people, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated during a live televised broadcast on July 31 that it would be transformed into a socialist bank.
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The below article is reprinted from http://tamilnet.com.
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International oil giant Chevron is lobbying the US government to cancel trade deals with Ecuador over a court case where it faces a US$16 billion fine for polluting the Amazonian rainforest.
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Unionists protested on July 20 in San Francisco against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.
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Much of the world is fascinated by the US presidential election campaign.
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Democratic Socialist Perspective, http://dsp.org.au
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A bombing that killed five Hamas members and a five-year-old girl on July 25 in the Gaza Strip has escalated tensions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA), based in the West Bank.
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At least 3,000 people mobilized by the Papuan Christian Communication Forum staged a rally in Jayapura on August 4, a Jakarta Post article reported the following day.
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Like the good Count of Transylvania, the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed twice in Cancun in 2003 and in Potsdam in 2007 only to come back from the dead.