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  • INDIA: Kerala throws out Coca-Cola and Pepsi

    The India Resource Center reported on August 9 that the state government of Kerala, in southern India, has halted the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The community of Plachimada waged a four-year campaign against the soft-drink giant

  • SOUTH KOREA: Unionist beaten to death

    Ha Joong Keun, a member of the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Unions, was severely beaten by riot police after joining a July 16 rally, and died in hospital on August 1. He was one of thousands of workers who attended the rally, held in

  • TAHITI: Nuclear cover-up stokes tension with France

    Norm Dixon Oscar Temaru, the pro-independence president of the Tahiti Nui (Temaru's preferred name for the French colony known as French Polynesia), dropped a political bombshell in the Pacific country's parliament on July 28. Temaru released a

  • BOLIVIA: 'This is a revolution'

    Federico Fuentes Describing the August 3 swearing in of the 255 elected members of Bolivia's Constituent Assembly, Dan Keane wrote in the Washington Post on August 6: "On one side of the narrow aisle sat the delegates from [Bolivian President Evo]

  • SUDAN: Darfur problem is political

    The following is a response to questions posed by the US-based People's Weekly World editorial board to Fathi M. El Fadl, a leader of the Sudanese Communist Party, about the current situation in Sudan and in particular Darfur. 

  • BOLIVIA: Gas nationalisation met with jubilation

    Federico Fuentes Declaring an end to the "looting of natural resources by the international petroleum companies", Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the nationalisation of the country's gas resources on May 1. "The day has come, the awaited

  • SOUTH KOREA: Social movements fight free trade agreement

    Chris Kerr Twelve-thousand people marched on April 16 when the National Movement Against the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement held its first mobilisation. The coalition brings together around 270 different organisations, including the Korean

  • NEPAL: Reconvened parliament will hold elections

    Eva Cheng Four days after King Gyanendra buckled under the pressure of mass protests and offered to reconvene the parliament that he forcibly suspended four years ago, Nepal's 205-seat parliament met on April 28. On April 30, it decided unanimously

  • EAST TIMOR: Further violence feared

    Jon Lamb Fearing renewed violence, tens of thousands of East Timorese have fled Dili to outlying villages and districts. The situation remains extremely tense in the capital following the police crackdown on an angry demonstration of former

  • People's Trade Agreement deepens solidarity

    In an April 28-29 meeting in Havana, Cuban President Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales signed the "Agreement for the Application of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas [ALBA]

  • VENEZUELA: Australian unionists address May Day rally

    Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Australian trade unionists who were part of a solidarity brigade to Venezuela participated in Caracas's huge May 1 demonstration and had an opportunity to address the crowd from the front stage near Miraflores,

  • UNITED STATES: 300,000 turn out for New York anti-war march

    Lee Wengraf, New York As many as 300,000 protesters jammed the streets of Manhattan on April 29 for the first major anti-war demonstration in New York City in close to two years. The protest was organised by the national anti-war coalition United