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Federico Fuentes, Valencia Speaking of the nine-month-long struggle against the Aseven (KR) soft-drink company, one of the company's workers Luis Flugo told Green Left Weekly, "we have been on the streets, we have been the victims of so many acts

Alex Miller The Scottish Socialist Party is contesting two parliamentary by-elections to be held on September 29. Its candidates — long-time local activist Ronnie Stevenson, standing in the Scottish Parliament seat of Glasgow Cathcart, and trade

Kim Bullimore The Israeli justice ministry announced on September 18 that it would close a police investigation into the murder of 13 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship at the beginning of the second intifada. The 13 were killed in northern

Lourdes Garcia Larque is a solidarity activist and graduate of Latin American studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which has 300,000 students. She will be speaking at the Third National Conference in Solidarity with Latin

Camilo Mejia was the first US soldier to serve in Iraq who went public with his refusal to re-deploy. He spent nine months in military confinement for deciding to follow his conscience. Since his release, he has been a tireless anti-war campaigner

Green Left Weekly's Lara Pullin, participant in the first Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Brigade, interviewed Nelson Davila, Venezuelan revolutionary and charge d'affaires at the Venezuelan embassy in Canberra. When we were in Venezuela, we heard a

Rohan Pearce On March 1, 1991, after the defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War, US President George Bush senior told the American Legislative Exchange Council: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!" Since George Bush junior

Provisional results from New Zealand's September 17 parliamentary election suggest that the Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark has narrowly won a third term in office.

Doug Lorimer In a September 19 statement accompanying his latest report to a meeting of the 35-country board of governors of the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed ElBaradei declared that "Iran

On September 14, 1500 delegates representing 6.7 million workers unanimously voted to express their support for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and the National Union of Workers (UNT). The motion was presented by the university and college

Doug Lorimer On September 13, the UN General Assembly approved a 38-page document for submission to a summit in New York of 150 heads of governments marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation. The document is a considerably

Sixty-five per cent of citizens across the world do not think their country is governed by the will of the people, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the BBC. The Gallup International Voice of the People 2005 poll questioned 50,000 people