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China and Vietnam were able to move millions
of people out of harm’s way when struck by fierce typhoons, Khanun and
Damrey, at the end of September. ...
Posted Oct 13, 2005
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The Chinese-Cuban Biotech Pharmaceutical Co. opened its Beijing factory on Sept. 28—the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two socialist countries. ...
Posted Oct 4, 2005
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On Jan. 20, Workers World featured an article by Fred Goldstein titled "Cuba leads the world in managing disasters." It was written in connection with the tsunami that took place in the Indian Ocean and killed hundreds of thousands of people. ...
Posted Sep 21, 2005
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A crowd of more than 60,000 South
Koreans erupted into cheers of ‘We are one!’ as a group of visiting
North Koreans entered the World Cup soccer stadium...
Posted Sep 5, 2005
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Palestinian resistance to occupation by the
U.S.-armed and -financed Zionist movement and its Israeli settler state
continues today and every day throughout all of Palestine....
Posted Jul 23, 2005
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Why isn’t the AFL-CIO, the central
labor organization in the United States, extending a hand to China’s
unionized workers in a collaborative effort to demand better wages and working
conditions from the transnational corporations that are trying to play the
workers of both countries off against each other?...
Posted Jul 22, 2005
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Will the July 7 bombings in London be followed by greater opposition to imperialist war and occupation--which has already cost so many lives and so much suffering in so many countries? Or will the political forces of corporate expansion and empire building in the United States and Britain be able to utilize them to further their aggressive agenda of war and plunder? That is the question now before the progressive movement.
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Posted Jul 7, 2005
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Thousands of South Korean students rallied and confronted the police May
29 in Seoul outside of a U.S. military base to protest against a hostile U.S.
policy against North Korea....
Posted Jun 5, 2005
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President George W. Bush has used the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler’s fascist armies in Europe to launch an aggressive campaign of reactionary propaganda and diplomacy aimed at reinforcing Washington’s growing encirclement of Russia....
Posted May 12, 2005
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Throughout Latin America the
commemoration of May Day was once again a reminder that the majority of the
peoples south of the Rio Grande are not willing to allow the United States to
impose so-called “free trade” agreements on them. From Mexico to
Argentina, unions and social organizations mobilized, honoring the legacy of the
Chicago heroes of 1886 while bringing into focus the local issues particular to
each country—all of them voicing specific demands on their own
governments....
Posted May 4, 2005
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Everywhere in
Venezuela today workers are forging ahead with new formations of workers’
organization. They are taking over factories here, experimenting with
co-management there. Workers are challenging the old class relationships and
coming to a collective realization of their historic role in the struggle for
socialism.
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Posted Apr 27, 2005
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International
delegations visiting Venezuela for the Third Gathering in Solidarity with the
Bolivarian Revolution on April 13-17 had a chance to see firsthand how the
working people are participating in the transformation of this
country....
Posted Apr 20, 2005
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The Chinese regard imperial Japan's invasion and the 1937 ‘rape of Nanking’ as their holocaust. But new Japanese textbooks have removed references to this and other atrocities....
Posted Apr 14, 2005
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All the achievements of
modern science—medical procedures to prolong the pope have been
marshaled in a massive effort to convince the public that the life and death of
this one person have had extraordinary, even supernatural consequences for the
world....
Posted Apr 6, 2005
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The class struggle in Venezuela is raging. The
workers and peasants are on one side, while the landlords and capitalists are on
the other. The rich are aided and abetted by the imperialist powers,
particularly the United States....
Posted Mar 30, 2005
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When will it finally sink into the heads of
those in Washington dazzled with dreams of ever wider empire that they will have
to scale down their global ambitions? Only, it seems, when the revolt against
them tears apart the social fabric of their profit-driven system....
Posted Mar 30, 2005
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Ever since World War II, U.S. imperialism has
tried to present itself as a liberator of the Asian peoples. Despite its bloody
wars in Korea and Vietnam, and its earlier seizure of the Philippines from
Spain, Washington capitalized politically on having defeated Japan, which had
become a hated colonial power in Asia. ...
Posted Mar 23, 2005
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Two years ago, on March 20, 2003, in the
middle of the night, a barrage of thousands of tons of U.S. bombs and missiles
coming from land and sea rained down on the banks of the Euphrates River in a
sneak attack which destroyed dozens of government buildings and numerous
civilian facilities....
Posted Mar 16, 2005
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Faced with death threats to Bolivarian
Republic President Hugo Chávez and not-so-veiled pressure from the United
States, the youthful Venezuelan Revolution is tenaciously pushing ahead new
anti-capitalist measures for the benefit of its working-class population. One of
these is the new Invepal, SA, enterprise....
Posted Mar 16, 2005
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The Lebanese people converged on Beirut from
all the poor areas of the country on March 6 in a massive anti-imperialist,
anti-Zionist showing. They gave a resounding rebuff to efforts by the Bush
administration to isolate Syria, attack Hezbollah and set the stage for
expanding its war for “regime change” in the Middle East to
Damascus....
Posted Mar 9, 2005
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To welcome U.S.
President George W. Bush to Mainz on Feb. 23, the German government shut the
city down. Some 10,000 cops patrolled the streets. Sewer covers were
locked in place. Stores and shops closed down....
Posted Mar 2, 2005
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In his recent trip to Europe, U.S. President
George W. Bush tried to rally European heads of state against Iran and Syria. As for how to deal with the "nuclear
crisis" of Iran, the U.S. had to back off its bellicose posturing, at least for
now.
But the danger of U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East
remains high and all anti-war activists must remain vigilant and
alert.
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Posted Mar 2, 2005
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The president of the United States got
another reminder this week that it takes more than having the world's biggest
weapons to make an aggressive, expansionist foreign policy produce the desired
results....
Posted Feb 24, 2005
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It is hard to imagine a more repressive statute than South Korea's National
Security Law, which has been on the books since 1948....
Posted Feb 23, 2005
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The revolution of 1979 overthrew the U.S.-backed Shah and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. This was the beginning of the "clash" between the Muslim world and U.S. imperialism....
Posted Feb 23, 2005
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Sometimes a single figure can speak volumes.
Keep in mind the figure 1 percent when discussing Venezuela with your friends
and co-workers....
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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This June will mark the 25th anniversary of the assassination
of Walter Rodney--an African-Caribbean Marxist revolutionary activist,
theoretician and internationalist. ...
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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Could the adventurist neo-con regime in
Washington be poised for yet another aggressive military move in the oil-rich
Middle East? Even though the current conflict--the drawnout and bloody struggle
with an elusive but effective Iraqi resistance movement that refuses to accept
the U.S. invasion and occupation of their country--has earned them worldwide
condemnation and hatred, many signs point in the direction of more aggressions
to come....
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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Unlike previous years, two heads of state were part of this
year's official World Social Forum events: President Jose Ignacio "Lula" Da Silva of Brazil
and President Hugo Chávez Frías of the Bolivarian Republic of Vene
zuela, both speaking at the Gigantinho Stadium....
Posted Feb 13, 2005
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