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Around the world
On Jan. 11 the case of Victor Toro for political asylum will be heard in
Federal Court in New York. Supporters are urged to attend the hearing from 12
noon to 1 p.m. at 26 Federal Plaza....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Ever since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which the United States never ratified,
the capitalist political establishment in Washington has focused on one thing:
trying to put the onus on China for the lack of any binding world agreement
that could prevent catastrophic climate change....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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The International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which was two years
in the planning, ended in a train wreck. Nothing was arrived at: no treaty, no
deadlines, no binding agreement of any sort....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Excerpts are from a Nov. 27 talk entitled “The
structure of reactionary violence and human rights violations in the
Philippines” written by Professor Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the
International League of Peoples’ Struggle....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk given by Carmen Godinez from the Confederation of Cuban
Workers (CTC) International Department explaining the history and significance
of ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of America....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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In the Miami courtroom where they were unjustly convicted, extreme prison terms
for three of the Cuban Five -- including two with life-plus-years – were
reduced to the sentencing guideline minimums. To protect their homeland, the
Cuban Five conducted observations of Florida-based paramilitary organizations
planning attacks on Cuba....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Where in the world today is unemployment only 1.8 percent, and every
2009 student graduate found a job? “In Cuba,” reported Raymundo Navarro....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Twenty years have passed since the bleak midnight of Dec. 19-20, 1989. A fifth of a century haspassed and the Panamanian people are still unaware how much damage was done. As with many other crimes, the facts remain unclear,
without any judicial inquiry, without any trial and without punishment....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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An update on the success Workers World is having in spreading a
Marxist outlook from “inside the belly of the beast” around the
world and in many languages...
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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After a 32-day hunger strike that brought her to the threshold of death at
Tenerife Airport in the Canary Islands, Western Sahara leader Aminatu Haidar
won the right to return to her homeland, which is still under Moroccan control....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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Last Dec. 27, the U.S.-funded Israel war machine unleashed a 23-day
blizzard of U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction on the towns and refugee
camps of Gaza, the most densely populated place on earth....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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The United States had 167 unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, in 2002 and
more than 6,000 in 2008....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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The Sixth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference opened here on
Dec. 4 with an evening of solidarity with the Cuban Five, defenders of Cuba who
are serving long sentences in U.S. jails.
The weekend conference, which brought together union militants and social
justice activists from Latin America, the Philippines, Canada and the U.S.,
focused on how the international capitalist crisis is affecting workers,
including those forced to migrate to imperialist countries for survival after
their local economies are destroyed....
Posted Dec 19, 2009
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BOLIVIA: Morales triumphs | URUGUAY | VENEZUELA: Controlling the banks | HONDURAS: Human rights abused | ALBA meets in Havana...
Posted Dec 19, 2009
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Inside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Dec. 3, a Goldman Sachs investors’
conference was presenting Roger Agnelli, CEO of the giant mining transnational
Vale SA, with a “Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Citizenship” award.
Outside, miners from several countries were holding a noisy and militant
demonstration protesting Vale’s brutal anti-labor practices....
Posted Dec 19, 2009
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While a group of workers held an 18-day occupation at Vestas wind turbine plant
on Great Britain’s Isle of Wight in July, other Vestas workers and their
supporters erected an encampment outside the plant. On Nov. 27 this tent
community — which after four months included such comforts as a kitchen,
showers, furniture and a solar-powered laptop/cell phone charging station!
— was disbanded when Vestas obtained a court eviction order. Campers,
however, were hardly demoralized....
Posted Dec 19, 2009
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In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with
more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads
of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is
important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide
and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference
discussion or proposed restrictions?
By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum
products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all
international climate agreements....
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led a
walkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the United
States, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestep
responsibility for the worsening impact of carbon dioxide emissions. The
increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused
climate change that threatens the total collapse of agricultural production on
the African continent....
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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After a barrage of propaganda emanating from Washington and the big business
media, most people in the U.S. have been led to believe that any failure to
reach an agreement at the Copenhagen summit on climate change will be
China’s fault.
Nothing could be further from the truth....
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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It was a great feeling to be one of the 100,000 people from all corners of the
world at the Palace Square in front of the Danish Parliament on Dec. 12, the
fifth day of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
It was reported that 57 nations were represented by nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), groups like Greenpeace and Vegans, and political parties
like the Anti-Capitalist Party from France and the Danish Communist Party....
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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Ever since 1990 when the people of Haiti turned an election into a movement and
voted en masse for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian bourgeoisie and its
imperialist backers have been leery of elections....
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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The Sixth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor
Conference met Dec. 4-6. The gathering was comprised of
labor organizers, political activists, youth and students from all across Latin
America, the U.S., Canada, the Philippines and other countries....
Posted Dec 10, 2009
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On Dec. 1 a statement began to be circulated entitled “A Declaration of
African-American Support for the Civil Rights Struggle in Cuba.” The
statement has 60 signatories—well-respected Black intellectuals, cultural
performers and political activists, many of whom were leaders during the Civil
Rights era and continue to be today.
The statement alleges not only racism in Cuban society but systemic racism. It
insinuates that racism is a policy of the Cuban government, not merely a
lasting vestige of the neo-colonial government before the 1959 socialist
revolution.
To anyone who has ever been to Cuba or is in the movement to defend the Cuban
Revolution, such a statement seems odd. It seems rather ironic coming from the
U.S., despite the existence of the first Black president....
Posted Dec 10, 2009
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A bomb blast at the Shamo Hotel in Mogadishu on Dec. 3 has further destabilized
the unpopular and fragile Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. It clings
to power due to the deployment of 4,500 troops under the auspices of the
African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), a move engineered by the U.S.
government through the U.N. Security Council....
Posted Dec 10, 2009
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Washington has already begun to send more troops to occupy Afghanistan
following President Barack Obama’s Dec. 1 speech at West Point. In
Afghanistan as in Iraq, the U.S. occupation will bring death to more Afghan
civilians and more U.S. troops. It threatens to open a civil war in Pakistan,
while the occupation of Iraq continues....
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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It’s not often that a commercial publication in the United States allows
an Afghan to speak freely about the benefits of life under the progressive
government overthrown by Washington two decades ago. However, the Queens
Chronicle broke the silence when it published “View from
Afghanistan—A Queens man’s view of living in wartorn country”
on Oct. 29....
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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The voice of the people of Honduras was heard in its absence at the polls.
While corporate media outlets repeat “official” government figures
of 61.86 percent participation, the resistance movement says that 65 percent to
70 percent of the population boycotted the fraudulent elections, with many
polling stations almost empty. This is confirmed by Lisa Sullivan, Latin
America coordinator of School of the Americas Watch, who says, “Our
delegation visited dozens of polling stations, finding them almost empty, in
most places counting more electoral monitors and caretakers than voters.”...
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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It took almost 60 years, but the government of south Korea has finally admitted
what many in the younger generation had already found out through the
progressive movement there: Thousands of civilians were massacred by the south
Korean regime at the beginning of the 1950-53 war, for no other reason than
that they were considered sympathizers with the communist revolutionaries who
had liberated the north of Korea from Japanese rule during World War II and
were now battling U.S. imperialism....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Two recent conferences held on the African continent reaffirmed the
determination of women to achieve genuine equality and political empowerment....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Protests mount as Morocco expels Western Saharan human rights activist | 250,000 public workers strike in Ireland | U.S.-built flying gas tank crashes in Pisa, Italy...
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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The Dubai government announced Nov. 25 that it was “requesting”
that its investment company, Dubai World, be allowed to stop making interest
payments for six months....
Posted Dec 5, 2009
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Following months of Pentagon and ruling class pressure to expand the U.S. war
in Central Asia, President Barack Obama formally announced he had already
issued orders to send some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan when he addressed
West Point Army officers and the country on Dec. 1. His task was to sell the
war’s escalation to the population at home and to Washington’s NATO
allies abroad....
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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Although the Los Angeles Times estimates that 40,000 Hondurans live in Los
Angeles, only a few hundred participated in the Honduran presidential elections
on Nov. 29. They were met with a barrage of chants, banners, placards and music
urging them not to participate in an “election” run by a military
coup government....
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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Workers from the Canadian Auto Workers Local 195 and their allies blockaded two
plants by forming a human chain on Nov. 16 in Windsor, Ontario, to prevent the
viewing of machines by potential buyers. The next day the workers physically
shut down a scheduled auction for the machines at a local hotel by taking over
the auction room. Windsor is right across the border from Detroit....
Posted Nov 29, 2009
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On Nov. 29, the illegal “government” of Honduras will hold national
elections in total violation of all norms by which democratic and legal
elections are held....
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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Recently, at three General Motors and Ford plants in the U.S. and Canada,
production was temporarily brought to a standstill. This time, however, the
cause was not sagging car sales but an event halfway around the world....
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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Nearly five months into a strike of 3,500 nickel workers at the Vale operations
in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, the struggle is moving to New York City. The
United Steelworkers is asking for everyone to join a busload of striking miners
at a protest at the Waldorf Astoria, Park Avenue and 50th Street, on Dec. 3....
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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A national tour organized to highlight the use of administrative detention, an
inhumane punishment aimed at Palestinian political prisoners, visited a number
of U.S. cities from Nov. 3 to Nov. 20. Administrative detention is a cruel form
of arrest that offers the accused man, woman or even child no charges to
dispute, no trial and no limit to their maximum sentence....
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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Dr. Adel Samara, editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Kanaan, veteran
writer and leading Arab-Palestinian thinker, spoke to meetings at the
Solidarity Center in New York on Nov. 19 to address the question: “A Year
After the Gaza Massacre: Where Is the Struggle For Palestine
Heading?”...
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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Excerpts are from a talk by Bill Cecil at the WWP
National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Talk given by WWP Secretariat member Deirdre
Griswold at the WWP National Conference Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Abayomi Azikiwe from Detroit at the
WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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A new chapter in relations between the People’s Republic of China and the
African continent began during the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the
China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC), which was held Nov. 6-9 in the Egyptian
Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced
eight new measures to enhance partnerships with 53 African states in the areas
of agriculture, debt relief, market access expansion, climate change, medical
affairs, education, environmental protection and promotion of investment....
Posted Nov 22, 2009
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The Berlin Wall–so maligned and condemned by war-making imperialists and
hand-wringing liberals alike–was nothing but a picket line on a much
larger scale....
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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Three Marxist “think tanks” met in Brussels from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1
for an international conference called “The Crisis and Beyond.”...
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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During the last three decades, Oct. 28 has been the day to celebrate creole
languages throughout the world. Creole is a stable language that has grown from
a mixture of other languages, where the words come from the parent languages
but the syntax is generally specific to the particular language....
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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From a talk by Berta Joubert-Ceci of Philadelphia to the WWP National Conference, Nov.
14: I want to ask you to please stand up. Let us give homage to the courageous
people of Honduras. That resistance that today, for 140 days, has been in the
streets, demanding the restitution of their president, José Manuel Zelaya
Rosales, and the celebration of a Constitutional Assembly that will end
injustice and inequality....
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Just how powerful is the U.S. military today?
Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the
resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or
Vietnam?...
Posted Nov 15, 2009
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The U.S. military maneuvers and exploitation of resources in Africa have not
provided any relief to the hundreds of millions of people suffering from
unemployment, poverty and food deficits on the continent. In conjunction with
the workers, farmers and their organizations in Africa, the progressive forces
in the United States must oppose all efforts aimed at the further exploitation
of the continent’s resources as well as the occupation of its lands by
the international capitalists and their military forces....
Posted Nov 15, 2009
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At the time this article is being written, no resolution to the dangerous
crisis in Honduras has been attained. The illegal usurper government of Roberto
Micheletti continues holding on to power at all costs—in spite of having
signed, on Oct. 30, the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord, which would have restored
the legitimate president, Zelaya, to office before the elections....
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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In the crisis now unfolding, a revitalized workers’ movement, in order to
be effective, will have to draw in all the sectors that have either been left
out or marginalized....
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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Wesam Ahmad, program officer from Al Haq—an independent legal and human
rights organization based in Ramallah—addressed a packed meeting at the
Solidarity Center in New York City Nov. 4....
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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Recent events in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have again
put the spotlight on U.S. imperialist designs to continue to
subjugate and dominate these south-central Asian countries. They
have also shown that the besieged peoples of these nations will
not bow down to what the belligerent occupation forces have in
store for them....
Posted Nov 8, 2009
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Cuba solidarity activists were invited to the Cuban Mission to
the United Nations on Oct. 29 to hear from Cuban Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodríguez, who was in New York to attend the annual
vote on a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning the U.S.
blockade of Cuba....
Posted Nov 8, 2009
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After 125 days on the streets protesting the military coup that
had deposed their elected president, the people of Honduras have finally seen a
positive sign that could lead to the reinstatement of President José
Manuel Zelaya Rosales....
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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The Honduran ambassador to the United Nations, the Hon.
Jorge Arturo Reina, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark participated
in an event here on Oct. 27 in solidarity with the resistance in Honduras....
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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It is 92 years since the Bolshevik Revolution stunned the ruling classes of
the world. For more than 70 years, until the pulling down of the Soviet Union
in 1991, the impact of that great upheaval of the workers and peasants could
not be ignored by those in the imperialist countries whose preoccupation was to
weigh how far they could go in squeezing every last cent out of the workers and
every last resource out of the oppressed countries of the world. The specter of
provoking similar revolutionary uprisings was always before them to temper
their greed and arrogance....
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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This report was written before the announcement of a possible agreement restoring Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. A new report on this and other developments will appear in the next issue of Workers World. The repression against the people of Honduras and their
democratically elected president increases. At the Brazilian Embassy, where
Zelaya has sought refuge since returning to Honduras on Sept. 21, the military
has increased its tactics of physical and psychological torture....
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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It is dangerous to be a teacher in Honduras. In an interview with members of
the U.S. delegation to Honduras on Oct. 7, Berta Oliva, director of Cofadeh,
the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Tegucigalpa, said that
the military coup has revived the army’s death squad, Battalion 3-16, the
paramilitary group responsible for torture, assassination and disappearances in
the 1980s. ...
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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Some 2,000 demonstrators from all over Lebanon gathered in downtown Beirut Oct.
12 to demand that the Lebanese government rebuild the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian
refugee camp destroyed by the Lebanese Army in 2007. A master plan for
reconstruction was approved by the Lebanese government in 2008, but
reconstruction has been postponed repeatedly....
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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Many leaders of the movements for change will come together Dec. 4-6 at the
Sixth U.S./Cuba/Venezuela/North America Labor Conference in Tijuana, Mexico,
just 15 minutes from San Diego. A special “Nothing Less than Freedom for
the Cuban Five” dinner and program will greet family members of the
anti-terrorist heroes unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. The Dec. 4 program will
include a video of Alice Walker, noted author of “The Color
Purple,” speaking at a Berkeley, Calif., gallery display of paintings by
Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five....
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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The current situation in Ethiopia must be viewed within the broader regional
political and social dilemma facing Africa, as well as the overall world
economic crisis, which has thrust hundreds of millions of people further into
poverty and uncertainty.
The Ethiopian government’s close relationship with successive U.S.
administrations has served to place the country as a military outpost for
imperialism in the Horn of Africa....
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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Striking Canadian miners rallied at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 21.
Travelling in vans for 14 hours, 30 members and staff of the United
Steelworkers union came to confront Vale executives as they rang the bell at
the Exchange. Vale is the second-largest mining company in the world....
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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Athens, Greece, will be the setting Nov. 1-4 for the Second International
Assembly of Migrants and Refugees. Migrants and refugees from grassroots
organizations around the world will speak out on the horrific conditions facing
workers who have to leave their homelands....
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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An International Action Center meeting on Oct. 25 featured dynamic eyewitness
reports from three epicenters of struggle—Honduras, Pittsburgh and
Gaza....
Posted Oct 29, 2009
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A decade ago on Oct. 14, 1999, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere passed away in
his East African nation of Tanzania. Nyerere was one of the leading political
figures to emerge during the post-World War II era of anti-colonial and
anti-imperialist struggles that swept through Africa, Asia and Latin
America....
Posted Oct 29, 2009
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The war to subjugate Afghanistan and use it as a launching pad for
Anglo-U.S. domination of the whole region is in big trouble. Even though
they face more than 100,000 foreign troops equipped with the highest-tech
weapons of death available, the Afghan resistance has been growing....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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In the high Spanish court called the Audiencia Nacional, charges for
international crimes had already been lodged against Chilean dictator Augusto
Pinochet and other nefarious world leaders. On Oct. 6, new charges were brought
charging Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, George H. W. Bush, George
W. Bush, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama with crimes against humanity for their
responsibility for harming the people of Iraq....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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In massive national protests, tens of thousands of
campesinos, union workers, students and Indigenous people blocked roads and
bridges on Oct. 12—
El Día de la Raza—effectively paralyzing many parts of Guatemala.....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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Denouncing a viciously racist antiimmigrant law passed by the government
of scandal-ridden billionaire media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, as many as
200,000 people marched from the Piazza della Repubblica to the Roman forum on
Oct. 17. The CGIL labor confederation played a major role in the march along
with immigrants from Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and South Asia....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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Hundreds of thousands of workers marched from the Independence Column
through the streets of downtown Mexico City to the Zócalo central square
to demonstrate their support for the SME electrical workers union and to oppose
the rightist government’s plan to privatize the public electrical
company, Light and Power, and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs....
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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This report is written on the 113th day of resistance
by the Honduran people against the illegal military coup that ousted
democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya....
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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Youth and students are an important sector participating in the struggle
against the illegal coup d’etat in Honduras. Video after video of the
resistance actions that have taken place since the July 28 coup have shown youth
in the streets and facing repression as well....
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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A general strike called to protest the Sept. 28 killings of over 150
people and the wounding of over 1,200 took place in Guinea on Oct. 12-13....
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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The masses in Puerto Rico sent a strong message to the pro-statehood
administration of Gov. Luis Fortuño and his capitalist allies when more
than 100,000 people came out on Oct. 15 in San Juan and Hato Rey to protest the
current government’s neoliberal policies, including more than 20,000
layoffs in the public sector....
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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Zimbabwe’s inclusive government was thrown into crisis in the
aftermath of the arrest of the Western-backed Movement for Democratic
Change-Tsvangirai Treasurer Roy Bennett on Oct. 14. Bennett, who has been
charged with possessing arms for the purpose of criminal activity, terrorism
and inciting acts of insurgency, had been out on bail since March....
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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Let’s put the fierce debate taking place over the war in Afghanistan in
the proper historical and class context—from a Marxist point of view, a
Leninist, anti-imperialist point of view. The war to make Afghanistan a U.S. satellite in Central Asia, just like the war
against Iraq and the threats to Iran, is part of an historic effort to
re-conquer that part of the world....
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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After a major address before the Columbus Council on World Affairs, the
U.S.-backed president of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Sheik
Sherif Sheikh Ahmed, told journalists that his fragile regime could not prevent
the seizure of power by the two main resistance groups in the Horn of Africa
nation....
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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Since July, when 600 workers at a wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight in
Britain were laid off, their ongoing struggle has united labor and
environmental activists in a movement to save so-called “green
jobs.”...
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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Outrage swept through the Palestinian communities worldwide following
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’ decision Oct. 8 not to pursue
the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes when it
waged war on Gaza in January. Abbas made this decision at the urging of Hillary
Clinton....
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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When cameras are running, Washington officials sometimes express
“concern” for the plight of the Palestinian people. But even this
phony caring doesn’t extend to the 4.5 million Palestinians who for 61
years have remained stateless, without official nationality, stranded in Arab
countries.The right to return has never been raised in the so-called Palestinian-Israeli
peace talks that Washington brokers. The U.S. government sidesteps the right of
Palestinians to return to their original towns and villages because it opposes
this right...
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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From Alaska to southern Chile, Indigenous people all over the Western
Hemisphere demonstrated in protest on Oct. 12—the anniversary of the day
Christopher Columbus’ ships landed on a Caribbean island and began to
introduce all the evils of European early capitalist colonial society to this
half of the world....
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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The conspiracy that Jeremy Keenan’s book “The Dark Sahara”
examines grew out of the kidnapping of 32 European tourists in seven separate
parties in early 2003, a few weeks before the United States invaded Iraq. The
tourists, all German speaking, vanished in an area of southern Algeria called
the “Graveyard Trail,” a well-known tourist destination in the
German-speaking world. Keenan shows U.S. collusion in the conspiracy with the
goal of opening Africa to further U.S. intervention....
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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After a week of showing solidarity with the people of Honduras on the streets
and gaining insightful information on what has transpired during the 105 days
since a right-wing coup, the 12 people composing the U.S. Delegation in
Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance returned to the U.S. in the wee hours
of Oct. 12.
Delegation members met with members of various sectors—teachers, youth
and students, women, human rights organizations, churches, artists and
more—that have come together in a united front against the coup and for
constitutional reform. Representatives expressed pride and determination to
continue in the struggle, while also acknowledging that the situation is
grave....
Posted Oct 14, 2009
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“Rethink Afghanistan,” a documentary directed by Robert
Greenwald, is available as a DVD or online in six parts at
rethinkafghanistan.com. It opened Oct. 1 in a limited number
of U.S. theaters....
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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A summit of African and South American leaders convened on the
Venezuelan-Caribbean island of Margarita Sept. 26-27. The gathering was a
follow-up to the first Africa-South America Summit held in Abuja, Nigeria, in
November 2006....
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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Ignacio Meneses represented the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange at the Second Nuestra
Americas labor conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 22-24. Since 1991
the Labor Exchange has built international ties between working people in the
U.S. and workers throughout Latin America, particularly in Cuba....
Posted Oct 8, 2009
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A
delegation of human rights activists from the United States is on a fact-finding mission in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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An emergency demonstration supporting the Honduran people’s
resistance and the reinstatement of illegally deposed President Manuel Zelaya
was held in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sept. 29....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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The San Francisco Labor Council supports the immediate and
unconditional return of President Manuel Zelaya to his position as head of
state of Honduras and supports the restoration of all democratic rights there,
while demanding that those responsible for the coup be brought to justice and
that the U.S. government suspend all aid until Zelaya is restored to his
position....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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The National Women’s Fightback Network stands in solidarity with all of
our Honduran sisters who are in the resistance movement in opposition to the
illegal Micheletti government....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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Internal struggles in Nkrumah’s Convention Peoples Party broke into the
open, once even resulting in an August 1962 attempt to assassinate the
president with a bomb attack....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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A trial aimed at repressing job actions by the workers at a private processing
plant in the city of Krasny Luch of the Lugansk region, Ukraine, will reopen on
Oct. 9. The workers ask for letters of solidarity and that people and
organizations send protests of the trial to the Ukranian authorities....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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The G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh gathered the finance ministers, top bankers and
political leaders of the world’s largest economies, ostensibly to take up
the most serious economic collapse of capitalism in three generations. Instead,
they attacked Iran....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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Since the G-20 meeting the world has once again had to witness a
saber-rattling attempt to force Iran to abandon its right to develop nuclear
power. It is orchestrated by the great imperialist powers of the world in
Washington, London, Berlin and Paris, who themselves are armed to the teeth
with thousands of nuclear weapons.
In the course of this campaign these powers, along with their client state of
Israel, have resumed their attacks on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding
the Holocaust....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal has submitted his report asking for as many as 40,000
additional troops for the war on Afghanistan, arguing that they are needed for
a U.S. “victory.” President Barack Obama has said he wants time for
the administration to examine its strategy regarding Afghanistan....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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According to the history books, 100 years ago on Sept. 21, 1909, Kwame Nkrumah,
the founder and leader of the African independence movement and the foremost
advocate of Pan-Africanism during his time, was born in the western Nzima
region of the Gold Coast, later known as the independent state of Ghana....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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It has been 27 years since the massacre of at least 2,000 unarmed Palestinians
and poor Lebanese in the Sabra and Shatila refugees camps here in Beirut....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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Aggression by right-wing forces that can
accurately be described as acts of war continues in Honduras. A vicious fascist coup may be in the making as the de facto illegal government
of Roberto Micheletti carries out a reign of terror against the people and
Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president. The coup
plotters—golpistas in Spanish—have denied rights guaranteed in the
Constitution and banned gatherings....
Posted Oct 1, 2009
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Juan Almeida Bosque, who recently died in Cuba at the age of 82, was one of the
original band of revolutionary heroes who stormed the heavens and brought down
the brutal dictatorship of U.S. lackey Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959. ...
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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Since 2007 U.S. foreign policy has deeply injured Somalia....
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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The Iraqi people celebrated on Sept. 15 when Muntadhar al-Zaidi was released
from a Baghdad jail after nine months in prison....
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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On Sept. 17, when President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
announced that the U.S. was canceling plans to station 10 ground-based
interceptor missiles in Poland and a missile radar installation in the Czech
Republic, it was no cause for elation. The NATO presence in Eastern Europe is
continuing to expand to protect imperial ambitions and military profits....
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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On its Web site, the Danish firm Vestas boasts of being “number one in
modern energy.” The manufacturer of wind turbines has 20 percent of the
world market share. Until recently, many might have assumed the company was in
the laudable business of saving the environment and creating “green
jobs”—the jobs of the future....
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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Libyan leader Mummar Qaddafi will attend the annual United Nations General
Assembly in New York City later this month amid a corporate-media provoked
racist campaign to prevent him from staying in Englewood, N.J., on a plot of
land owned by Libya’s U.N. Mission. Libya’s government announced on
Aug. 31 that Qaddafi, who is also chairperson of the continental African Union,
would not stay in Englewood but remain in New York City during the General
Assembly gathering of over 150 heads of state from around the globe....
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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Political activists of the 1960s and 1970s witnessed some of the most
revolutionary developments in history. Consciousness was profoundly shaped by
the historic events sweeping the world, from the triumph of the Cuban
Revolution to the national liberation struggles in Africa to the French general
strike and to the speeches of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro....
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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“Please tell President Obama that if he wants you to believe in his
promise of change, then he must free the Cuban Five!” Ricardo
Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, told members of the 20th
Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan when they arrived in Havana this
summer from the U.S....
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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In an attempt to permanently destroy southern Lebanon’s farming-based
economy, Israel dropped more than a million cluster bombs there in the last 72
hours of the war, after the cease-fire had been negotiated....
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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With Defense Secretary Robert Gates expected to ask for 45,000 more U.S. troops
for Afghanistan, it looks like a U.S. escalation of that ugly war will be the
next big issue to be fought out in Congress, with most opposition coming from
Democrats. Will the administration rely on support from the most rightist
forces in Congress to continue to promote the war against the Afghans, sending
many thousands of U.S. youth and contract mercenaries to kill and die occupying
that Central Asian land...
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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The 1959 Cuban Revolution overturned the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio
Batista. The revolution ended Cuba’s status as a U.S. neocolony and made
possible a complete overhaul and rebuilding of the medical system in that
country along socialist lines.
In 1960 revolutionary physician Che Guevara formally addressed the Cuban
Militia. His speech has since been published as an essay titled “On
Revolutionary Medicine,” which outlines the socialist view of the
relationship between revolution, private property and medicine....
Posted Sep 13, 2009
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Now that the documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of
prisoners in secret U.S. prisons have been released to the world media in U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s Aug. 24 report, the secret documents on
the imprisonment and torture of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui must also be released....
Posted Sep 13, 2009
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Dahia was the area hardest hit by Israel in 2006. It suffered 934 bombing
raids, according to the Lebanese army. Much of the neighborhood was reduced to
rubble....
Posted Sep 13, 2009
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Two disasters. One a natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in
2005. The other a human-made disaster, the carpet bombing of Lebanon in 2006.
Both inflicted widespread death and destruction. What is the situation several years later? Which group would you trust to
rebuild if you lost your home?...
Posted Sep 13, 2009
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As the decision day for escalating the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan grows
closer, a mass slaughter of Afghans in northern Kunduz province has put the war
on center stage worldwide and sharpened popular opposition within the NATO
countries, including inside the U.S. itself....
Posted Sep 11, 2009
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Since the beginning of August, the struggle of oppressed workers and youth in
New Caledonia has brought tensions to heights not seen since this South Pacific
island had an armed rebellion against France in the late 1980s...
Posted Sep 10, 2009
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It was an unprecedented event for a head of state. While he was in Washington,
D.C., Honduran legitimate President Mel Zelaya spoke on the evening of Sept. 2
with 26 anti-coup activists based in the United States....
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a South African runner who won the
women’s 800-meter gold medal at the 2009 World Championships. She was
subsequently challenged by competitors to prove her gender and subjected to sex
tests by the International Association of Athletics Federations. South African gender and political analyst Nomboniso Gasa responds....
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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Like the Gulf Coast of the United States, the island nation of Cuba was hit
hard by hurricanes Gustav and Ike in the fall of 2008.
However, in Cuba, no one, not a single person, was left to their own luck to
survive the hurricanes....
Posted Sep 4, 2009
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In the 2006 war, in retaliation for its failed invasion, Israel bombed
virtually every one of Lebanon’s southern villages and towns. Roads and
bridges were destroyed, with mosques and churches smashed and Red Cross
ambulances, schools, government emergency centers, factories, power and water
networks blown apart. And then, in the last days of the war, after getting a
rush weapons’ delivery from the Pentagon, Israel dropped 1.2 million
cluster bombs on the South....
Posted Sep 4, 2009
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Demonstrators marched in solidarity with the Honduran people in at least 10
U.S. cities on Aug. 28, the two-month anniversary of the June 28 military coup
d’état in Honduras which ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The
right-wing coup replaced the legally and constitutionally elected Zelaya with
Roberto Micheletti, representing the 13-family ruling oligarchy....
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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“They’d made an announcement ... that we were going to have our
jobs for years to come. So people went out and got mortgages and cars and all
that. ... Then they came and said it’s not happening. They turned around
and said, ‘Actually, we’re sacking you all.’ It was a big
shock.” ...
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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Tens of thousands of men, women and children gathered in this poor neighborhood
south of Beirut on Aug. 14 to stand firm against a new round of Israeli threats
to Lebanon. They also marked the anniversary of the Lebanese people’s
victory over the U.S.-backed Israeli invasion, siege and bombardment of their
country in 2006....
Posted Aug 28, 2009
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The Gaza Strip, populated by 1.5 million Palestinians, is virtually an open-air
prison—a place of punishment and exile for Palestinians. No one can
officially get in or out of Gaza unless given permission at border checkpoints
that are opened at the whim of Israel and Egypt. If your name is not on a
pre-existing list, you can’t get into Gaza or leave it....
Posted Aug 27, 2009
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The fraud-filled and inconclusive Afghan presidential election exposed the
weakness of the U.S.-NATO occupation regime. President Barack Obama’s
defense of the phony election and of the U.S. intervention failed to cover this
up at a time when the people in the U.S. are growing increasingly unhappy with
the Afghan war....
Posted Aug 26, 2009
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Abdel Basset al-Megrahi returned home to Libya Aug. 21 to a hero’s
welcome. He had been held in a Scottish prison for eight years in connection
with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21,
1988. This political prisoner’s release created the conditions for a renewal of
attacks on the North African state of Libya....
Posted Aug 26, 2009
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After two days of a general strike, the people of Lascahobas, Haiti, held a
peaceful rally Aug. 6 and set up blockades on the road to the Dominican
Republic....
Posted Aug 23, 2009
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More than 100,000 troops from the Pentagon and its NATO allies now occupy
Afghanistan. They are inflicting more deaths and terror on the Afghans. They
are also dying in record numbers now, nearly eight years after the initial U.S.
invasion.
The occupation forces imposed a presidential election on that suffering
country on Aug. 20....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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Developments indicate clearly that the interest in African affairs by the
current U.S. administration means a continuation of promoting and advancing the
economic and political priorities of the U.S. ruling class....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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Hondurans continue the struggle in the streets. Defying criminal police and
military who repress, arrest and shoot tear and pepper gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition at them, the people have protested the military coup regime
every day for seven long weeks....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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Imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the general
secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was transferred
on Aug. 11 to Ramon prison in the Naqab desert from Asqalan prison, where he
had been held for a number of months. He remains in isolation; prior to his
transfer from Asqalan, he had been held since Aug. 1 in a tiny isolation cell
of 140 cm. by 240 cm. after being penalized for communicating with another
prisoner in the isolation unit....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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When a man dropped his gun at a town hall forum in Arizona, it was a sign that
the town hall disruptions around the country were about much more than health
care reform.
Just a few days after the Arizona incident, a man bearing a sidearm appeared
outside President Barack Obama’s Aug. 11 town hall meeting in Portsmouth,
N.H. He was holding a sign stating, “It is time to water the tree of
liberty.” It was a reference to Thomas Jefferson’s famous
statement, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It represented a clear threat to the
life of President Obama....
Posted Aug 19, 2009
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Since last December when the sit-down at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago
drew international attention, workers around the world have been employing that
same militant tactic. In early August, police forcibly ended job occupations in
three different countries....
Posted Aug 17, 2009
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Over 700 people have been reportedly killed and hundreds of others were
arrested in a police and military crackdown on the Boko Haram religious group
based in several Northern states in the West African nation of Nigeria. Western
and domestic media reports have characterized the operations by the security
forces as another anti-terrorism effort modeled on the United States occupation
of Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet the underlying crisis in Nigeria, one of
Africa’s largest oil producers, is closely related to the present state
of the world capitalist system and the subordinate role of countries that rely
heavily on foreign exchange earnings from exports to the industrialized
countries....
Posted Aug 13, 2009
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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
Posted Aug 12, 2009
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The failure of capitalist methods of production and distribution is clearly
illustrated by the way the collapse of the financial and industrial centers in
Western Europe and the United States has devastated former colonial countries.
Since late 2007 tens of millions of workers and farmers in several regions of
the African continent have been severely affected by unemployment, rising
commodities prices, food deficits and the decline in material aid from the
industrialized states....
Posted Aug 9, 2009
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Some 300 people who traveled to Cuba on a trip with
the Venceremos Brigade, Pastors for Peace, U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange and Africa
Awareness struck a blow against the U.S. blockade of Cuba when they crossed
back into the U.S. via both New York and Texas on Aug. 3....
Posted Aug 9, 2009
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Two hundred Haitians on July 26 crammed themselves into a small sailing vessel,
according to news reports. They were seeking to escape from a country that
continues to be occupied by foreign troops and whose people suffer from massive
poverty and starvation....
Posted Aug 9, 2009
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On July 29 the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn hosted a standing-room-only
report-back meeting led by several participants of the Viva Palestina historic
U.S. convoy who returned July 17 and 18 from Gaza City in Palestine. The
audience was majority Black....
Posted Aug 8, 2009
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Honduran workers and farmers have protested every day since a military coup
d’état overthrew that country’s democratically elected
President Manuel Zelaya on June 28. Voices of that resistance movement spoke in
Philadelphia July 31 stressing the urgency that Zelaya be returned to power and
the coup d’état overturned....
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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Filipino students and others demonstrated in front of the new Federal
Building on 7th Street in San Francisco on July 27 to demand no U.S. tax money
for the tortures carried out under the dictatorship of President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo....
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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Even a country that possesses arms as powerful as those of the United States
cannot conquer through military might alone.
That is the lesson of this period of seemingly endless U.S. imperialist
invasions and occupations that began with the assault on Korea in 1950 and
continues to the present....
Posted Aug 5, 2009
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A meeting of the San Francisco Labor Council on July 27 unanimously
adopted a resolution to support striking workers in South Korea....
Posted Aug 5, 2009
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Collectively the countries which participate in the Group of Twenty comprise 85
percent of the global gross national product, 80 percent of world trade and
two-thirds of the world’s population. What many G-20 countries lack,
however, is sufficient arable land to meet the needs of growing urban
populations....
Posted Aug 3, 2009
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In a visit to four African states, Cuban President Raul Castro continued the
decades-long legacy of international solidarity with the peoples of the
continent. Castro, who recently stepped down as chairman of the Non-Aligned
Movement at its summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, was hailed at the gathering
in July for Cuba’s contributions to the liberation and development of
Africa....
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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A spirited celebration of Fidel Castro’s legendary July 26 attack on the
Moncada Barracks, which launched Cuba’s revolutionary movement, took
place July 25 at Service Employees Local 1199 headquarters. A broad
cross-section of New York’s Cuba solidarity movement took part in the
celebration....
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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On July 27, 1953, U.S. imperialism and the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea (DPRK or north Korea) signed an armistice agreement that halted the
Korean War. Fifty-six years later, not only does the U.S. still refuse to sign
a peace treaty, but it still occupies south Korea with 28,500 troops, stationed
there to prop up a puppet government....
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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A Viva Palestina organizer writes: we took a guided bus tour and witnessed Gaza’s
devastation. It was clear the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza were a
deliberate campaign to inflict punishment on the civilian population.
Apartment buildings had been shelled, leaving huge holes in the walls. Many
homes in Gaza had been reduced to rubble....
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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The casualties among the U.S.-led occupation forces in Afghanistan are headed
toward a new high this year, reaching 67 killed in July alone. The step-up in
deaths—mostly from the large U.S. and British contingents on an offensive
in Helmand Province—signals the new U.S. administration’s focus on
this Central Asian country of just 29 million people....
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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At least 10,000 people
marched in Port-au-Prince July 15 to demand the return of former President Jean
Bertrand Aristide on his birthday. Aristide has been in forced exile since the
coup, mostly living in South Africa....
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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Those resisting the coup inside Honduras have been carrying out constant
actions for three weeks—strikes, demonstrations and other protests. ...
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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The Stop War on Iran coalition, in
alliance with the International Action Center and other anti-war organizations
that work to bring understanding about developments in Iran to the U.S. public,
has organized a forum for Aug. 1 at 4 p.m. at the Solidarity Center in New
York. ...
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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The 15th Non-Aligned Movement summit was held July 15-16 in Sharm El-Sheikh,
Egypt, with the theme of “International Solidarity for Peace and
Development.” The NAM, founded in 1961, has a membership of 118 nations
throughout the developing world....
Posted Jul 27, 2009
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Ignored in the worldwide corporate media is the
power of the growing and vibrant movement of the Honduran people, the workers
and farmers, who are carrying out heroic resistance to the coup. Resistance
leaders tell that side to Workers World....
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl’s capture in Afghanistan has brought that war into
living rooms across the United States. The heavy media coverage should lead to
the U.S. population rethinking Washington’s arguments for invading and
occupying Afghanistan and now escalating the war there....
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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We in the anti-war movement need to be especially careful not to jump on the
bandwagon when the entire capitalist class, their media, the entire U.S.
Congress, and numerous organizations that received direct U.S. funding from the
so-called National Endowment for Democracy all speak with one voice in sudden
defense of a cause...
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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SsangYong Motor is not exactly a household name, even among autoworkers here.
Smaller than Hyundai, Kia and GM-Daewoo, this Korean auto firm only produces
vehicles for the domestic market. Members of the United Auto Workers, however,
need to pay close attention to a fierce battle taking place at a SsangYong
plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea....
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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The largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to Palestine in history went over the
Rafah border crossing into Gaza in the late evening of July 15. The 218-person
contingent of activists brought more than $1 million in wheelchairs, walkers
and medical supplies to the people of Gaza....
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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Tarek Abedrabb, a young Syrian man in the Viva Palestina delegation, and a young Egyptian health care worker on the convoy write about Gaza....
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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A new publication by the group Breaking the Silence was announced on July 15.
The group is composed of veteran Israeli soldiers who “demand
accountability regarding Israel’s military actions in the Occupied
territories perpetrated by us and in our name.”
Interviews and testimony by 30 Israeli soldiers regarding their experiences in
“Operation Cast Lead” confirm that war crimes were specific policy
in last winter’s Gaza massacre....
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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The conflict in Iran that opened up with the June presidential elections there
has had an impact on the progressive and anti-imperialist movement worldwide,
including in the United States. Misunderstanding the events has created some
confusion in anti-war ranks. This is especially dangerous after Vice President
Joe Biden on July 5 gave a virtual green light to an Israeli attack on Iran.
The anti-war movement must stay alert to protest any move in that
direction....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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This year’s Group of 8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy, once again
demonstrated the failure of capitalist economic policies to bring genuine
development to the African continent. The summit’s final day discussed
the G-8 providing aid to Africa for agricultural programs. The fact that
previous pledges of $50 billion made at the 2005 meeting in Gleneagles,
Scotland, have not been met, however, made African leaders even more skeptical
about the role of Europe and the United States in the future of the
continent....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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Residents of L’Aquila in Italy united with labor unions and
anti-capitalist activists from around Italy and Europe for a 10,000-strong
march through the earthquake-stricken town on July 10, the final day of the
Group of 8 summit meeting. Through the march and other actions, they overcame
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s attempts to turn the groups
against each other with violence-baiting....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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South Africa is in a frenzy of construction in order to host the 2010 World Cup
soccer competition. Complaining of low wages, the 70,000 construction workers
hired for the project walked off the job July 8....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro...
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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A court in India’s capital has made a historic decision in overturning a
law that banned sex between people of the same gender. The law, section 377 of
the Indian Penal Code, was imposed on the Indian people by the British when
they colonized the country. It declared “carnal intercourse” to be
“against the order of nature,” with penalties of up to 10 years in
prison. While few were criminally prosecuted under the law, many lesbian, gay,
bi and trans people were persecuted and harassed because of it....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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Kyrgyzstan’s June 22 decision to keep the U.S./NATO military base open at
Manas will enhance the U.S. government’s ability to wage its brutal war
on Afghanistan. Seventeen miles from Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, the
Manas base houses over a thousand U.S. military personnel and hosts transport
aircraft and mid-air fuelling vehicles....
Posted Jul 17, 2009
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July 15—The largest humanitarian aid convoy in history to travel from the
U.S. to Palestine succeeded in crossing the Rafah border into Gaza late today.
After days of delay, the 218-person contingent of activists, buoyed by
telegrams, emails and protests from many parts of the world, was finally
allowed to pass into the besieged Palestinian enclave with more than $1 million
in wheelchairs, walkers and medical supplies for the people of Gaza....
Posted Jul 15, 2009
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During the day it had appeared that the Egyptian government was going to deny
passage into Gaza. The 218-person contingent of activists plans to bring wheelchairs, walkers and
medical supplies to the people of Gaza. A genocidal attack on Gaza in December
and January, on top of a two-year Israeli siege and blockade of the area, makes
this aid essential for the people there. The fact that the caravan hails from the U.S. gives the convoy added resonance,
as Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. government aid in the world. And
Israel uses U.S. weapons and missiles against the Palestinian people on a daily
basis....
Posted Jul 15, 2009
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Former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney has been released and
deported from Israel, after being imprisoned there since June 30 along with
other members of the Free Gaza Movement....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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Louis Fignole Saint-Cyr of the Autonomous Confederation of Haitian Workers
(CATH) spoke at a meeting at the Brecht Forum in New York City on July 5....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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Honduran popular leader Juan Barahona told Workers World
that the resistance to the illegal June 28 coup that deposed President Manual
Zelaya grows daily despite the fierce repression and constant attacks by the
coup regime and the corporate media....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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Sirte, Libya, was host to the 13th African Union Summit held July 1-3. The AU,
an organization representing all 53 independent states in Africa, held
extensive discussions on how to build unity and cooperation on the
continent....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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Some 100,000 people poured into Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, capital city
of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on June 25. This massive
crowd in a country of only 22 million people gathered at a rally and
commemoration entitled “June 25, The Day of Struggle Against U.S.
Imperialism.” The event marked the anniversary of the day in 1950 when
the U.S. started the war which killed millions of Korean people....
Posted Jul 5, 2009
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Over the last two years Africa has been severely affected by the downturn in
the world economy, resulting in 53 million more people being thrust into
poverty. As a result of the legacy of colonialism and neocolonialism, the
prices of exports from the continent have gone down while the cost of food,
fuel and other commodities imported into Africa has increased drastically....
Posted Jul 5, 2009
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In just eight months, over 20,000 South African autoworkers have been
“retrenched.” In response to these and other layoffs in
manufacturing, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has launched
a “fight for jobs” campaign. NUMSA won a major victory on June 17
in the Johannesburg Labor Court against General Motors South Africa....
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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Apparently the wave, which Commandante Ernesto Che Guevara spoke of at the
General Assembly meeting at the United Nations in 1964, arrived at the borders
of the Salvadoran Sea, when on June 1, Mauricio Funes took office as the head
of the smallest country in the Americas....
Posted Jul 2, 2009
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The blatant military coup in Honduras has thrown down a challenge to all of progressive
Latin America. It aroused immediate mass resistance from Honduran mass
organizations and active hostility from progressive governments throughout
Latin America and progressive organizations worldwide. It has received no open
diplomatic support anywhere in the world, even from reactionary imperialist
powers.
According to a Cuban press agency report from Honduras, “The main trade
unions, farmers, youth and social organizations in Honduras are on the second
day of a strike against the dictatorial government in the country.”...
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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Units of the Israeli navy blockading Gaza attacked and
boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human
rights workers from 11 countries. The passengers and crew, including Noble
laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, are being
forcibly dragged toward Israel. The boat is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
with an international delegation that set sail from Lanarca, Cyprus....
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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Much news coverage has centered on Obama’s hard line on the
Israelis, as in his Cairo address when he called for a freeze in
settlements.
So slanted is U.S. policy toward Israel that a halt in construction in illegal
settlements is seen as somehow “hard line.”...
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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On June 16, 1976, the apartheid regime of South Africa faced the heroic Soweto
Uprising....
Posted Jun 29, 2009
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When mourners gathered June 18 in Port-au-Prince’s cathedral to celebrate
the life and leadership of Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a hero in the Haitian
people’s struggle in both the United States and Haiti, the mood was
clearly anti-occupation....
Posted Jun 29, 2009
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The confrontation among Iran’s ruling politicians that has brought large
crowds into the streets of Tehran is not taking place in isolation. It is
happening in a country still facing U.S. sanctions and warships, hostility from
every imperialist capital and venom from the West’s corporate media.
This confrontation follows 30 years of a concerted effort by the U.S. and other
imperialists to turn back the enormously popular revolution that took place in
1979. That revolution stopped short of moving Iran toward socialism. But it
broke the grip of the imperialist overseers and their puppet shah over a
country that now has 71 million people in an area three times the size of
France....
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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In Cuba the campaign against homophobia has access to all the mass media and is
an ongoing educational effort, not just a one-day affair. This information may
surprise many people in the United States, who get very little news from the
corporate media here about the great social progress that has been made in Cuba
as a result of its revolution.
However, readers of Workers World newspaper were fortunate enough to learn a
great deal about Cuba’s campaign to rectify old prejudices through the
series of articles called Lavender & Red. ...
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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The worsening security situation in Somalia has prompted the U.S.-backed
Transitional Federal Government to declare a state of emergency and issue a
call for outside military intervention to prop it up against the popular resistance....
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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U.S. imperialism and its Middle East client states carried out heavy-handed
interventions in the June 7 Lebanese elections and Hezbollah’s electoral
ally in the Christian community there suffered some setbacks....
Posted Jun 21, 2009
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On June 5, Peruvian President Alan Garcia unleashed his heavily armed
repressive forces against Indigenous people in that country’s Amazonian
region. They had been defending that enormous source of natural wealth against
the voraciousness of transnational corporations. Ironically, that same day had
been designated by the United Nations as World Environment Day to motivate
awareness of environmental issues and encourage political action....
Posted Jun 21, 2009
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Indigenous peoples, solidarity movement activists and environmentalists
filled the sidewalks outside the Peruvian Consulate in New York June 10. Around
the corner, three activists chained shut the doors to the building housing Sen.
Chuck Schumer’s office....
Posted Jun 21, 2009
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In Britain and Ireland it’s called a redundancy and in South Africa
it’s called a retrenchment, but a layoff by any other name is still a
layoff. On June 11 the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa issued a
statement announcing a court action and possible strike over what they call a
“jobs bloodbath.”
“General Motors South Africa (GMSA) destroyed over 1,300 jobs since
2007,” the union charged,...
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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Thousands of Haitians from all over North America traveled to Miami June 5
and 6 to spend hours paying tribute to Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste. They came
from Orlando, Fla., Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and
Montreal. ...
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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What distinguishes the contemporary economic crisis within global capitalism
from other downturns over the last three decades is that the rapid
deterioration of the social conditions of working people and the oppressed is
taking place simultaneously all over the planet. Considering that development within the imperialist countries is based largely
upon the super-exploitation of the labor and natural resources of people in the
colonial and neocolonial countries, it is not surprising that the economic
crisis is having a far more dramatic impact on the masses of workers and
farmers in Africa....
Posted Jun 18, 2009
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Here’s how Koreans in the north look at the current situation between
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States, based on
conversations with a member of that country’s leading party, the Workers
Party of Korea....
Posted Jun 18, 2009
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The Mohawks of Akwesasne are defending the sovereignty of their territory by
protesting a Canadian government plan to arm border guards at Akwesasne with
guns as of June 1. On June 8 Mohawks at Tyendinaga in eastern Ontario blockaded
the Skyway Bridge to show their solidarity with Akwesasne....
Posted Jun 14, 2009
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Grenada’s international airport was renamed after Maurice Bishop on May
29. It would have been the late revolutionary leader’s 65th birthday....
Posted Jun 14, 2009
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Sudan is one of Africa’s major oil-producing countries, and has therefore
been targeted for destabilization and domination by the Western imperialist
states led by the U.S. The country has maintained an independent domestic and
foreign policy over the last two decades and has refused to cooperate with the
U.S. on a number of its initiatives related to the Iraq war and relations with
Iran and Palestine....
Posted Jun 14, 2009
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More than 150 people rallied June 6 in San Francisco to demand an end to
the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza. The demonstration was part of a national day of
solidarity with the people of Gaza....
Posted Jun 14, 2009
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Supporters of the beleaguered Palestinian people plan to leave from New York
City on July 4 with medical supplies they will deliver to hospitals in
Gaza....
Posted Jun 13, 2009
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On June 4 U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama gave a much-heralded speech
addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt....
Posted Jun 13, 2009
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What makes Puerto Rico different is that our country is still the only formal
colony of the United States in this hemisphere, subject to U.S. rule in all our
spheres of life. U.S. rule is what has marked the political life of the Boricua
people—the Taíno Indigenous name of the island is
Boriquén—since 1898, both on the island and in the U.S.
According to international law, that our country is a colony is itself a crime....
Posted Jun 10, 2009
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An ongoing struggle between Nigeria’s federal government and the people
of the Niger Delta has reached a new level in the aftermath of the May 13
military operation in the West African oil-producing region.
The root of the current repression in Nigeria is the role of U.S. and
European-based multinational oil firms that have looted the resources of the
people of the oil-producing areas inside the country for decades....
Posted Jun 7, 2009
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“You’re sitting on a gold mine” is supposed to mean you have
a great opportunity to become really wealthy.
The Indigenous Ipili people of the highland Enga Province of Papua New Guinea
have literally been sitting on a gold mine for millennia. But instead of
bringing wealth, the mine in the Porgera River region has been a curse....
Posted Jun 6, 2009
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Economic indicators released in late May show that Japan may be heading toward
an official depression as its economy contracts at a record rate. Growth in
worker class-consciousness and combativeness has accompanied the economic
news....
Posted Jun 6, 2009
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Nepal swore in a new prime minister on May 25, three weeks after the
resignation of Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda from the post.
Prachanda’s resignation followed attempts by the armed forces, the Nepali
Congress, and India to topple the revolutionary government....
Posted Jun 4, 2009
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FIST calls for the immediate end to the U.S.-supported campaign against
the Tamil population of Sri Lanka and stands in solidarity with the struggle of
the Tamil people for liberation....
Posted Jun 4, 2009
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Coming to Cuba from the U.S., where youth mortgage their future wages for a
college education and health insurance fails to guarantee coverage for
catastrophic illnesses, the notion that health care and education can be free
really caught our attention....
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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The largest 2009 May Day celebration held anywhere in the world, according
to CNN, took place at the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, Cuba. Past
ILWU international president David Arian and former Local 10
secretary-treasurer and Million Worker March leader Clarence Thomas were part
of a U.S. delegation, which also included International Longshore Association
members....
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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General strike shuts southern Basque Country | Autoworkers on the move | European workers demand jobs | Portugal–85,000 march in Lisbon | Spain: Anti-imperialist party restored to ballot...
Posted May 31, 2009
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This May 25 is the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Over 30 member-states formed the
continental body in 1963 amid a groundswell of independence struggles. Every
year this date is celebrated on the continent and in the world as “Africa
Day” or “Africa Liberation Day.”...
Posted May 31, 2009
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A United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its
Impact on Development, originally planned for June 1-3, has been postponed
until June 24-26....
Posted May 27, 2009
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In solidarity with an international conference called by formerly colonized
countries at the United Nations here in New York, the Bail Out the People
Movement has called for a People’s Economic Summit on May 31....
Posted May 25, 2009
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By outlawing a new political party from an upcoming June 7 ballot, ruling
circles in the Spanish regime are exposing their links to the 36-year-long
fascist reign of Francisco Franco. Their latest anti-democratic step involved
fraudulent charges to prevent the newly formed International
Initiative—Solidarity among the Peoples (II-SP) organization from
competing in elections to the European Parliament...
Posted May 25, 2009
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Utilizing the pretext
of fighting “terrorism” on land and “piracy” at sea,
the U.S. administration under Obama is maintaining the same foreign policy as
the previous government headed by George Bush, which targeted Somalia and the
region of east Africa for regime change and the establishment of a permanent
military presence in this area of the African continent....
Posted May 22, 2009
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On May 6, six Puerto Rican activists/artists were arrested in the U.S. House of
Representatives for demanding that the United States grant independence to
Puerto Rico....
Posted May 22, 2009
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A group of demonstrators, about half of them young students, gathered in
New York’s Times Square on May 17 to commemorate the Naqba, or calamity,
wreaked upon the Palestinian people. It was on that same date in 1948 that
Israel began its occupation of Palestine....
Posted May 22, 2009
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There are 30,000 Haitians under deportation orders in the United States....
Posted May 22, 2009
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U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell shot to death five U.S. troops on May 11 at Camp
Liberty, one of the largest U.S. installations in Iraq. This act put into focus
the relationship of the personal to the political in a war zone....
Posted May 21, 2009
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In the crisis now unfolding, a revitalized workers’ movement, in order to
be effective, will have to draw in all the sectors that have either been left
out or marginalized....
Posted May 20, 2009
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There is not a shred of doubt about it: The terrible humanitarian crisis now
occurring in the area of northwest Pakistan bordering
Afghanistan—described by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees as the
worst refugee crisis since Rwanda in 1994—was caused directly by the U.S.
government and the Pentagon....
Posted May 20, 2009
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One of the most celebrated pianists of our time recently carried out an
unexpected and courageous act of political activism. Before performing the
final piece of his recital at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on April 26, the
Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman addressed the audience, saying that he could
no longer play in a country whose military wants to control the whole
world....
Posted May 17, 2009
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Ecuador, with a population of more than 14 million, re-elected President Rafael
Correa on April 26 and Panama, with 3 million, elected as president
businessperson Ricardo Martinelli on May 3. Both these Latin American countries
have “dollarized” economies, that is, they use the U.S. dollar as
their official currency. The aspiration of both peoples, as well as those all
over the world, is to have a better life. Will these elections help attain that
goal?...
Posted May 17, 2009
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A flare-up in tensions between Chad and Sudan during the week of May 4 has
exposed the continuing efforts of French and U.S. imperialism to dominate the
political and economic future of North and Central Africa. ...
Posted May 17, 2009
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Inside the Roosevelt Hotel in busy midtown Manhattan on May 10, Pakistani
President Asif Ali Zardari was trying to reassure some 300 members of the
expatriate community that his just-completed visit to Washington was not a
capitulation to U.S. pressure.
But outside, a vigorous demonstration denounced the bloody government offensive
in the Swat Valley that has caused more than half a million Pakistanis to flee
their homes....
Posted May 16, 2009
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After a 36-day occupation of the Visteon plant in Belfast, members of the
union Unite voted May 5 to accept a settlement....
Posted May 14, 2009
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First-time visitors from the U.S. were unsure what the day would hold as they
watched dawn break in Revolution Square on May Day morning.
The international delegations—more than 2,000 in all from 70 countries,
including union leaders and revolutionaries, often both in the same person, and
representing 200 union and solidarity organizations—streamed off buses
and into the reviewing area at the foot of the José Martí statue....
Posted May 13, 2009
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The April 22 national elections in South Africa showed widespread continued
political support for the ruling African National Congress. The ANC won close
to a two-thirds majority in the elections, securing victories in all the
provinces with the exception of the Cape, where the opposition Democratic
Alliance won out over the ruling party...
Posted May 13, 2009
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International Workers’ Day brought out millions this year. “We want
jobs!” rang out from Jakarta to New Delhi to San Juan. Millions of
workers worldwide focused on the spiraling economic crisis as they took to the
streets on this historic day....
Posted May 7, 2009
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Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda announced his
resignation from his post as head of the Maoist-led coalition government on May
4, just over a year after his Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) placed
first in the country’s Constituent Assembly (CA) elections....
Posted May 6, 2009
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The government of Sri Lanka, with U.S. arms and military aid from Israel and
Pakistan, is waging a brutal war against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka....
Posted May 6, 2009
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Within a week after security forces foiled an assassination plot against
President Evo Morales inside Bolivia, the United Nations General Assembly
approved on April 22 the president’s initiative to create International
Mother Earth Day to protect the rights of Mother Earth and of all living
beings....
Posted May 6, 2009
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Visteon, the auto parts maker spun off by Ford in 2000, may have set a record
last month. On March 31 in Belfast, 210 workers were given six minutes’
notice that they were being terminated.
Yet the workers, who were members of the union Unite, refused to leave.
“We have been left with no choice but to occupy the factory to save our
jobs and to defend jobs for the people of Belfast,” stated Unite
representative John Maguire....
Posted May 3, 2009
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There are some pirates who don’t use firearms to seize vessels on the
high seas. There are certain pirates who commit their acts of oceanic theft
from thousands of miles away, in cool office buildings in Chicago and
London....
Posted May 3, 2009
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Fight Imperialism, Stand Together calls for the release of Abduwali
Abdukhadir Muse—the young teen from Somalia who was brought to New York
and arraigned in a federal court—and that he be allowed to return to his
family in Somalia....
Posted May 3, 2009
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FRANCE: Toyota workers win demands | Electric workers cut prices, cut power | FRANCE-GERMANY: Continental workers unite for protest | PORTUGAL—April 25 sizzles |...
Posted May 1, 2009
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An international movement has been established to protest the already
seven-year-long imprisonment of Dragoljub Milanovic, a target of NATO’s
effort to blame the victim following its U.S.-led bombing campaign against
Yugoslav civilians 10 years ago....
Posted May 1, 2009
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During the anti-G20 protests in London, as tens of thousands of people took to
the streets to protest a secluded meeting on the global economic crisis held by
the richest capitalist countries, Ian Tomlinson, a 47-year-old newspaper
seller, was walking home from work. He had to pass a gauntlet of menacing
barricades and shielded police with dogs and batons.
Tomlinson never made it home on April 1. He was beaten severely by police and
died that same day from internal hemorrhaging....
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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In the aftermath of the April 12 sniper killings of three Somali teenagers by
the U.S. Navy, several U.S. agencies met on April 17 to conduct a review of
military and foreign policy toward this Horn of Africa nation. The State
Department, Pentagon and Justice Department have outlined a series of options
to ostensibly fight “piracy” in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian
Ocean....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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At a Harlem, N.Y., rally, the Dec. 12th Movement delegation said they’re going to
Geneva to reaffirm the entitlement of the descendants of slavery to
reparations, based on the 2001 U.N. Declaration that “slavery and the
slave trade are a crime against humanity and should always have been so,
especially the trans-Atlantic slave trade.” As such, there is no statute
of limitations regarding reparations....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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On April 21, when President Ahmadinejad of Iran spoke denouncing the racist
actions of the Israeli state against Palestinians, most of the U.N. delegates
applauded the speech. It had been only three months since the 22-day-long
Israeli slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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An open letter entitled “U.S.
Refusal to Participate in Durban Review Conference: African Americans and
People of Color Speak for Ourselves!” ...
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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Hundreds of angry Afghan women demonstrated in Kabul on April 15. Led by young
activists, they marched to Parliament to demand the repeal of a new law denying
women basic rights....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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The Obama administration has begun to roll out its strategy toward Cuba and its
allies in Latin America. In response, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, retired
from his posts but still very active, published a statement in which he
recounted the devastating humanitarian impact of the almost half-century-old
U.S. blockade of Cuba....
Posted Apr 22, 2009
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Bolivian President Evo Morales is scheduled to speak at the Salem United
Methodist Church in Harlem when he visits the U.N. in New York on April 22. On
April 14, Morales and his supporters ended a five-day hunger strike in victory
after Bolivia’s congress passed a law guaranteeing 14 congressional seats
for Indigenous candidates and allowing expatriates the right to vote....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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When almost 200 delegates representing 80 organizations and political parties
from 40 countries, primarily from Latin America, met in the Federal District of
Mexico last March 19-21 for the XIII Seminar on “Political Parties and
the New Society,” hosted by Mexico’s Workers Party (PT), it was a
tremendous opportunity to learn more about the host country, meet new political
friends and renew old contacts, and in the process learn from those who are in
the midst of work and struggles in their own countries....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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The U.S. government has a new strategy to stop Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his
Fanmi Lavalas party from winning elections in Haiti. Keeping Aristide in exile and Fanmi Lavalas off the ballot in Haiti is easier than arranging another coup, like the two Washington administrations previously pulled off against Aristide....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of south Korea have recently
toured the U.S. and Canada, speaking out about how bloody repression by the
U.S.-backed dictatorship of Syngman Rhee accompanied the political partitioning
of Korea in 1948....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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The decision by the Obama administration to boycott the Durban Review
Conference Against Racism has raised a torrent of petitions, protests and
criticism. An actual boycott of the upcoming April 20-24 meeting would be the
first time that the United States has refused to participate in a United
Nations conference. This has come as a shock to many who expected a
fundamentally different attitude toward an international conference on racism
from the Obama administration....
Posted Apr 18, 2009
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Congressional Black Caucus says: ‘Talk to
Cuba’ * Hotel bombings finally tied to Posada * Smash the U.S. blockade...
Posted Apr 18, 2009
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Eighty days into the new U.S. administration and Iraq is still with us. That
is, U.S. troops are still occupying Iraq. And the Barack Obama administration
has asked Congress for another $83.4 billion to carry out the occupations of
Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted Apr 18, 2009
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Wal-Mart finally ran out of delays and stalls. Following provincial labor
law, a mediator awarded workers a first union contract April 10 in St.
Hyacinthe, Quebec, east of Montreal....
Posted Apr 16, 2009
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After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of another
in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates vowed to
avenge the deaths of these youth who held the U.S. captain of a cargo vessel
known as the Maersk Alabama for five days. The Pentagon’s version of events has been disputed by the Somalis who support
the vessel seizures. They contend that the three young men were killed after
they agreed to end the standoff and release Phillips....
Posted Apr 13, 2009
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On April 5, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced it had
launched a communications satellite into orbit. It was a remarkable first for
this small socialist country in the north of Korea, which has been struggling
to develop a modern economy in the face of great hostility from Washington....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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Sequestration is the French word for making the bosses bargain when they
instead want to lay off workers to make more money. Rather than sitting in to
seize the plant, French workers sit around their bosses and insist they
bargain. This happened four times in March....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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Hundreds of thousands of angry Greek workers shut down government offices,
closed the banks and disrupted transportation for 24 hours on April 2....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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Eleven mineworkers were killed in a March 7 explosion caused by the
accumulation of gas in a coal mine located on the outskirts of Quetta,
Pakistan, and run by Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation. All the dead
workers were from Shangla, a district adjacent to Swat Valley....
Posted Apr 12, 2009
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In the aftermath of the issuance of warrants for the arrest and prosecution of
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, the imperialists and their allies are
escalating political, diplomatic and military attacks on that African country....
Posted Apr 9, 2009
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More than 35,000 protesters marched in London on March 28 in advance of the G20
Summit held in that city on April 2. The G20 meeting brought together leaders
of the world’s largest capitalist countries to discuss the global
economic crisis. The “Put People First” march was organized by the
Trades Union Council and 120 other groups to demand “jobs, justice and
climate.”...
Posted Apr 9, 2009
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The heads of state and governments celebrating NATO’s 60-year role as an
international police force of world imperialism needed to impose a virtual
state of siege in the region on the French-German border near Strasbourg to
keep anti-war protesters away from their summit....
Posted Apr 9, 2009
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Right-fielder and batting-champion Magglio Ordóñez is arguably the
most popular and well-respected member of the Detroit Tigers Major League
Baseball team. Ordóñez, along with fellow Tigers Carlos Guillén, Miguel Cabrera
and Armando Galarraga, played for the Venezuelan national team during the World Baseball Classic tournament....
Posted Apr 5, 2009
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When Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek resigned, opponents of the U.S.
anti-missile radar base cheered....
Posted Apr 5, 2009
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Those planning demonstrations April 3-5 in Strasbourg, France, to counter the
60th anniversary celebrations of NATO, also oppose the use of NATO troops in
Afghanistan and the U.S. attempt to expand the war. They point out in their
call, “Proponents and opponents of NATO both view the war in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, to which the U.S. is committing significantly more troops, as a
key test” for allowing NATO to intervene worldwide....
Posted Apr 4, 2009
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The focus of the XIII International Seminar in Mexico City was Latin America, where the movement against
“neoliberal” imperialist penetration has reinvigorated the
worldwide debate about a socialist future. Participants mirrored the
differences and debates among Latin American political tendencies....
Posted Apr 2, 2009
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Following his successful completion of a solidarity convoy to Gaza, former
British Member of Parliament George Galloway was swept by a tidal wave of love
March 24 at Rutgers University’s Newark, N.J., campus on his first stop
in the United States....
Posted Apr 2, 2009
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A letter and petition initiated by Nord
Sud XXI (nordsud21.ch) and the International Action Center to demand that the
Obama administration fully participate in the U.N. Durban Review Conference
Against Racism in Geneva, Switzerland, April 20-24...
Posted Apr 1, 2009
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Thousands of people gathered in Belgrade’s Republic Square on March 24 to
mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the 78-day U.S.-NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia. This attack, mainly concentrated on Serbia, destroyed
Yugoslavia’s infrastructure and killed 3,000 people in the 1999 war
President Bill Clinton called “humanitarian.”...
Posted Apr 1, 2009
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Hundreds of representatives are met in Belgrade on March
23-24 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led 78-day bombing of
Yugoslavia and the heroic resistance of its people and military during
NATO’s aggressive and illegal war....
Posted Mar 29, 2009
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In testimony reminiscent of the Winter Soldier hearings that featured U.S. Iraq
War veterans, Israeli Defense Forces soldiers who took part in “Operation
Cast Lead” described their experiences and observations in February at
the Oranim Academic College in Kiryat Tivon, where they had all attended a
pre-military preparatory program as teenagers....
Posted Mar 29, 2009
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Protesters rallied in front of the Israeli Consulate in San
Francisco on March 16. They were demonstrating solidarity with Palestine and
support for Tristan Anderson, a local union worker and longtime activist who
was critically injured March 13 in the village of Ni’lin, close to
Ramallah, Palestine....
Posted Mar 29, 2009
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With the situation reaching critical proportions in the U.S. and other
industrialized states, the impact of the economic crisis is becoming more
apparent in the so-called developing countries, particularly the African
continent. Even though some Western analysts consider the African continent to
be a marginal region, this area has been thoroughly integrated into the world
capitalist system since the 19th century....
Posted Mar 27, 2009
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Workers in huge numbers took to the streets on March 19 in 219 cities and towns
throughout France. The unions that called this one-day strike/protest counted
more than 3 million workers who participated. Many small towns and cities,
where protests are rare, saw record turnouts....
Posted Mar 26, 2009
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An article by Somini Sengupta, titled “As Indian Growth Soars, Child
Hunger Persists,” recently examined the divergent results economic growth
has had in India and China. Even after a decade of
spectacular economic growth, Indian child malnutrition rates are worse than in
many sub-Saharan African countries. Indicators such as these begin to paint a
picture of growth in India that is strikingly different than that of
neighboring China...
Posted Mar 26, 2009
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Inspiring workers internationally, about 80 Canadian Auto Workers from Local
195 in Windsor, Ontario, ended their 24-hour plant occupation at parts supplier
Aradco on March 18....
Posted Mar 25, 2009
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Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi received a 3-year prison sentence on
March 12 for hurling his shoes at George W. Bush in a courageous act of
contempt that reverberated around the world. ...
Posted Mar 22, 2009
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Many diverse political forces seem to be applauding the dramatic victory in
Pakistan of a movement that has forced the government of President Asif Ali
Zardari to reinstate the head of the country’s Supreme Court....
Posted Mar 22, 2009
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Lisbon * West Bengal * France * Martinique...
Posted Mar 22, 2009
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“If the government belongs to the people and we’re the government,
then why is the government going after my pastor?” This question was put
to attorneys for the Special Commissioner for Investigation (SCI) for the NYC
Department of Education, which wants the New York State Supreme Court to hold
IFCO/Pastors for Peace in contempt of court....
Posted Mar 21, 2009
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On International Women’s Day this year, we express our solidarity with our
heroic sisters in Gaza who have endured the horrific U.S.-backed Israeli siege
and who are standing up with courage and resilience. We hail our Palestinian
sisters in the occupied West Bank who face the Israeli Defense Forces and
hostile settlements daily. We hail our sisters in Iraq, Afghanistan and
everywhere who face U.S. war and occupation....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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Celebrations, commemorations and protests were held worldwide on International Women’s Day (IWD) this year
from Lima, Peru, to Lahore, Pakistan....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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To mass celebrations and fireworks, Mauricio Funes, candidate of the Farabundo
Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), declared himself the winner of the
presidential elections in El Salvador on March 15....
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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Despite claims of concern from the U.S., France and the U.N., it is these
entities that were responsible for the removal of the Aristide government on
Feb. 29, 2004. Thousands of U.S. troops landed inside the country, kidnapped
President Aristide and sent him to the Central African Republic....
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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Capitalism can kill you. This is what a recent study by sociologists and
professors from Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine found. The study, published in The Lancet, details the devastating
effect capitalist counterrevolution has had on the health of workers in former
socialist bloc countries....
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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Considering how much money Washington spends on its covert and overt war
against Cuba, it must be quite embarrassing that its predictions almost always
turn out to be false. To judge by the statements of U.S. officials and their
parrots in the corporate media, the Cuban Revolution should have been overthrown decades ago....
Posted Mar 15, 2009
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The Collective Against Exploitation (LKP) signed an agreement with employers on
March 4 ending a 43-day general strike in the French-controlled Caribbean
island of Guadeloupe. Class struggles continue in the nearby island of
Martinique and in La Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. All three islands
and French Guiana are held by France as “overseas departments.”...
Posted Mar 15, 2009
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The International Action Center is distributing a petition to stop the
racist U.S. policy of illegally targeting 30,000 Haitian refugees for
deportation....
Posted Mar 15, 2009
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The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ordered the seizure of a
rice processing plant owned by U.S agribusiness giant Cargill on March 4, after
the company defied new price-control regulations on rice....
Posted Mar 15, 2009
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Miguel D’Escoto, current president of the U.N. General Assembly,
gave an unusually frank speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 4
in which he addressed many issues, like U.S. war crimes in Iraq, that no one in
such a high position had dared raise before....
Posted Mar 14, 2009
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A divestment teach-in at Temple University on March 5 put technology to use for
Palestine as students here spoke directly with students from the Hampshire
College divestment movement in Massachusetts....
Posted Mar 12, 2009
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Protesters from the Gaza Committee in Dearborn, Mich., picketed Starbucks
on March 7 over its connections to Israel....
Posted Mar 12, 2009
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The Palestinian Unified Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against Israel is taking hold and growing in unions, universities and among
political forces on many continents....
Posted Mar 7, 2009
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In a stunning display of strength that would have made James Connolly—the
martyred Irish working class hero from the early 20th century—proud, more
than 150,000 demonstrators surged into the streets of Dublin on Feb. 21 to
voice working-class demands....
Posted Mar 5, 2009
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A general strike on the French-controlled island of Guadeloupe has spread to
other French possessions and has rebounded back to France. The strike that
began Jan. 26 continued into its sixth week after signs that an agreement might
be reached proved false....
Posted Mar 4, 2009
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The U.S. government is threatening to expel 30,000 Haitians living inside its
borders. Among the millions of undocumented workers in the U.S. who live each
day with the fearful possibility of deportation, the Department of Homeland
Security has made undocumented Haitians a special focus....
Posted Mar 4, 2009
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The New York branch of Workers World Party held a special Black History
Month forum Feb. 27 entitled, “From Zimbabwe to the U.S., National
Liberation and Class Struggle.”...
Posted Mar 4, 2009
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The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has expanded so definitively into Pakistan
that some media like the Financial Times have renamed it the “AfPak
conflict.”...
Posted Mar 2, 2009
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With the Latvian economy in free fall and the population angry and in motion,
the Latvian government, a four-party, center-right coalition, resigned Feb.
20....
Posted Feb 28, 2009
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Amidst the cataclysmic capitalist crisis, the U.S. and Western European
governments are pressing for an expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. ...
Posted Feb 28, 2009
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Guadeloupean trade unionist Jacques Bino was eulogized on Feb. 21 in
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, as a general strike continued in this
French-controlled territory in the Caribbean. Bino was shot dead on Feb. 16
when French riot police opened fire on strikers who have been engaged in a
struggle on the islands for more than a month....
Posted Feb 25, 2009
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Furious at Israel’s horrific siege of Gaza and inspired by the courageous
people of Gaza, workers, students and progressive activists are organizing
sit-ins, demonstrations and other acts of solidarity with the Palestinian
people....
Posted Feb 23, 2009
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‘We, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, believe the action by South
African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members in Durban [by
refusing to unload an Israeli ship--WW] indicates a new phase in Palestinian
solidarity in South Africa.’...
Posted Feb 23, 2009
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The U.S. government’s hostile laws against Cuba make it hard to send
money there even if you have some....
Posted Feb 23, 2009
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U.S. war resister Cliff Cornell surrendered to U.S. border police on Feb. 4
after being ordered to leave Canada....
Posted Feb 23, 2009
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Several hundred Irish workers have occupied the world famous Waterford Crystal
glass factory. The sit-down began Jan. 30 when the shop stewards in the plant
learned that it would close and 480 of the 650 workers would be immediately out
of a job....
Posted Feb 22, 2009
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U.S. policy towards Afghanistan is undergoing a major re-evaluation, since its
major local ally and its occupation forces are both showing glaring
weaknesses....
Posted Feb 22, 2009
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The same day that a unity government took office in Zimbabwe, Feb. 13,
opponents of Western colonialism protested before the British and U.S. missions
to the United Nations in New York City demanding an end to the economic
sanctions imposed on this southern African country and the right to
self-determination....
Posted Feb 19, 2009
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The struggle amongst the
Venezuelan people for a socialist revolution has far from died as the media
would have you believe....
Posted Feb 18, 2009
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* Israel seizes aid ship bound for Gaza * Scottish students’ solidarity with Palestinians * Western Australia dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships * South African dockworkers refuse to unload Israeli goods * BDS movement salutes South African Transport and Allied Workers
Union...
Posted Feb 15, 2009
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The U.S. and its NATO allies face an extremely difficult challenge in
Afghanistan. How can they supply the troops they have there?...
Posted Feb 15, 2009
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The more a people’s leader is slandered, ridiculed and belittled by the
racist capitalist press in this country, the more important it is to look
beyond the propaganda to find out why the ruling class considers this leader
and what he/she represents such a threat....
Posted Feb 14, 2009
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The global financial crisis is forcing emerging and underdeveloped economies
throughout Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia to take a double whammy.
Economic instability and corresponding job losses at home are compounded by a
severe decline in remittances from the migrant workers who serve as a
super-exploited segment of the working class in the industrialized capitalist
economies of the United States, Western Europe and Japan....
Posted Feb 12, 2009
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An estimated 45,000 Tamils in Toronto, Canada, took to the streets in a huge
show of force on Jan. 30. They were protesting atrocities by the Sri Lankan
army against civilians....
Posted Feb 12, 2009
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The Ethiopian government of Meles Zenawi had sent its army into Somalia,
largely at the behest of the Bush administration. Fierce
resistance to Ethiopia’s occupation over the last two years resulted in
the formal withdrawal of Ethiopian forces in early January....
Posted Feb 11, 2009
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A standing-room-only crowd of several hundred attended a Black History
Month forum held at the National Black Theater in Harlem Feb. 8 entitled
“Zimbabwe: Pan-Africanism or Imperialism.”...
Posted Feb 11, 2009
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Resistance takes as many forms as life itself dictates.
Life in Gaza could not be more impossible. Its tunnels are a symbol of
resistance....
Posted Feb 8, 2009
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Thousands of demonstrators in Lithuania, Latvia and Bulgaria have attacked
government buildings and called on their governments to resign as unemployment
soars in Eastern Europe....
Posted Feb 8, 2009
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More than 2.5 million people marched in more than 195 large and small cities in
France on Jan. 29 demanding the government protect workers and not make the
people pay the cost of a bailout of the financial establishment....
Posted Feb 5, 2009
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A police attack Jan. 20 on tenants resisting eviction in Seoul, South Korea,
led to the death of six people. In response to this atrocity, thousands marched
on both Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 demanding that the police chief be fired for this
unwarranted use of force to evict people from their homes....
Posted Feb 5, 2009
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The former dictator of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, encountered demonstrators outside the Franklin Institute here on Jan. 26, where he was
the guest of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. ...
Posted Feb 5, 2009
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Recent political developments surrounding the formation of a national unity
government in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe provide greater impetus
for the peoples of the continent and world to demand the immediate lifting of
economic sanctions against the country....
Posted Feb 4, 2009
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The struggle
against Jim Crow and apartheid and for genuine national liberation of oppressed
peoples in Africa and the United States would inevitably clash with efforts
geared toward the building of support for the State of Israel as well as
Zionist political aims and objectives....
Posted Feb 4, 2009
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CIA-controlled drones attacked two Pakistani villages on Jan. 23, killing at
least 22 people....
Posted Feb 1, 2009
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The worldwide crisis of international finance capital has resulted in the
collapse of the bourgeois coalition government ruling Iceland....
Posted Feb 1, 2009
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Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center and a
contributor to Workers World newspaper, presented a 30-minute keynote talk at
an important Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin, Germany, on Jan. 10. Judging from both positive and negative
comments in the German media about Flounders’ talk, her comments
contributed to the controversial political discussion among the German left,
especially regarding Palestine....
Posted Jan 31, 2009
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Iraq war resisters Cliff Cornell and Chris Teske were deported from Canada last
week. Teske crossed the British Columbia-Washington state border unassisted on
Jan. 22 at an undisclosed location. Cornell planned to do the same on Jan.
23....
Posted Jan 31, 2009
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Israel’s savage assault on the civilian population of Gaza has aroused
the greatest worldwide outrage ever against the U.S.-backed settler state.
Perhaps nothing symbolized this more than the report of veteran anti-apartheid
fighter Dennis Brutus leading a protest in Durban, South Africa, against
Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg. Brutus was instrumental in the cultural
boycott campaign against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s....
Posted Jan 29, 2009
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A “reflection” by revolutionary leader and
former Cuban President Fidel Castro....
Posted Jan 29, 2009
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Since the invasion of Gaza began on Dec. 27, the idea of divestment and boycott
against Israel has spread to college campuses all over the country. A group
called Students for Justice in Palestine based at Hampshire College, a small
liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, has been advocating for
divestment at its school for the last two years....
Posted Jan 28, 2009
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A statement by Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy chief of the Hamas
political bureau....
Posted Jan 28, 2009
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A message to the Palestinian people from the Cuban Five. These Cuban heroes
have been falsely jailed in U.S. prisons for over 10 years for defending their
homeland against U.S.-backed terrorist acts....
Posted Jan 28, 2009
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The record wave of layoffs that seemed to peak in December is continuing into
2009.
At the same time, hundreds of billions of dollars in aid are flowing from
Washington to the banks and corporations, not to the unemployed. Reviving
corporate profits has taken precedence over providing desperately needed jobs
or calling for an immediate end to foreclosures and evictions....
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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The day Vice President-elect Joseph Biden visited Kabul, the current capital,
and Khandahar, the major city in southern Afghanistan, more than 600 Afghan
resistance fighters left Afghanistan and attacked a Frontier Corps outpost in
northwest Pakistan....
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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Workers, farmers and students protested in mid-January in militant
demonstrations in front of the parliament buildings and then fought with the
cops in Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Sofia, Bulgaria....
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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In a historic election in El Salvador, the FMLN Party has become the largest
party in parliament. From 1980 to 1992, the Farabundo Martí National
Liberation Front was the leading guerrilla force in the El Salvadoran
revolution....
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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The Palestinian people, bloodied but unbowed, have won the most uneven of
battles. The brutal scenario cooked up in the war rooms of the Israeli military and the
Pentagon didn’t work....
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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As the people of Gaza staved off yet another attempt by the U.S.-armed and
-funded Israeli military to eradicate the cause of Palestine by murdering its
people, delegates from around the world gathered in Beirut to build solidarity
and practical support for their cause among secular leftist and Islamic
anti-imperialist forces....
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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From a talk by Sara Flounders, co-director of the
International Action Center: “The United Nations just stands by, the European Union is in full support of the
Zionist state and the whole war is paid for and equipped by U.S. imperialism.”...
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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Although many people within the United States, from various nationalities and
cultures, have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people since Israeli
aerial bombardment of Gaza started on Dec. 27, the bourgeoisie stills refuses
to allow an open debate around the question of an independent state for this
oppressed people....
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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As the world watched the continuing Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza in
horror, as angry protests continued around the globe, a group of Jewish people
inside the U.S. took a public stand in support of the Palestinian people and
against the Zionist settler state....
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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Parallels exist between the establishments of the U.S. and Israel. The U.S. was
founded by European settlers who stole the land of Indigenous people who had
resided on it for thousands of years. Israel was established and carved out of
Palestine, a land already occupied by people who had lived there for thousands
of years....
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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Eighteen days into the massive Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip,
the death toll of Palestinians living in the densely populated area is nearing
1,000. In the same period, 13 Israelis have died—only three of them
civilians. Despite such terrible odds, the will to resist of the Palestinian
people continues, supported by growing demonstrations throughout the world....
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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In the age of the Internet, sometimes it takes only two minutes to set an
example for the world’s workers. That’s just what the Norwegian
Locomotive Union did when they stopped all trains, trams and subways in Norway
for 120 seconds on Jan. 8, telling passengers that they were staying in the
station for that extra time in solidarity with the Palestinian people....
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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In protest of the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, Venezuela expelled the
Israeli ambassador from its country on Jan. 6....
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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When the Israeli basketball team, Bnei Hasharon,
came on the court during a Eurocup game to play against Turk Telekom, hundreds
of Turkish fans began to throw shoes at them, yelling “Israeli murderers,
get out of Palestine!”...
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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The recent seizure of power by junior military officers
reflects decades of underdevelopment amid abundant resources....
Posted Jan 11, 2009
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was the very first country in
the world to successfully repel an all-out U.S. invasion and war....
Posted Jan 11, 2009
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An outspoken critic of imperialism, Harold Pinter spoke against the Gulf War, the
invasion and breakup of Yugoslavia and the war on Iraq....
Posted Jan 11, 2009
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A few days before the 50th anniversary of its victorious revolution, Cuba
made a significant gesture of international solidarity to its nearest neighbor,
Haiti....
Posted Jan 10, 2009
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The hike in food prices was causing great pain in much of the Middle East
even before the worldwide economic meltdown began. Prices skyrocketed not just
due to inflation, but also due to the U.S. government policy of paying farmers
not to grow wheat in order to raise prices and from U.S. agribusiness taking
wheat off the international market and directing production toward
biofuels....
Posted Jan 8, 2009
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Mobilized on six continents—Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and
South America—millions of people have demanded that Israel cease its
attack and lift the siege on Gaza. [Includes slideshow of protests around the world.]...
Posted Jan 7, 2009
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The response of the world’s imperialist governments to Israel’s
ferocious assault on the 1.5 million Palestinians packed into Gaza
shows once again who is really calling the shots in Tel Aviv....
Posted Jan 7, 2009
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Workers World Party extends our deepest congratulations and solidarity to
the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban people, who are celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the heroic triumph of the Cuban Revolution....
Posted Jan 7, 2009
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Gaza is a strip of land, four-fifths the size of the New York borough of
Queens, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, of whom 800,000 are children. By
entering Gaza, Israel’s war machine, backed in full by U.S. imperialism,
is writing a new chapter of war crimes in world history....
Posted Jan 5, 2009
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Dec. 31—The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian
people in the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has
mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the
world....
Posted Dec 31, 2008
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal U.S.-backed Israeli
bombing of Gaza that has led to the massacre of 200 Palestinians and the
serious wounding of another 300....
Posted Dec 31, 2008
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Statement by the youth organization FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) on the Israeli assault on Gaza....
Posted Dec 31, 2008
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has refused to cooperate with the so-called
International Criminal Court, which has indicted him and other leaders of
Africa’s largest geographic nation-state....
Posted Dec 22, 2008
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In coordination with worldwide protests in solidarity with the people
of Greece, activists delivered a protest letter to the Greek Consul General in
New York on Dec. 18...
Posted Dec 22, 2008
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When the U.S. corporate media report on the contemporary affairs on the African
continent, the stories’ contents and direction never highlight the role
of the multinational corporations and the military-industrial complex in
initiating underdevelopment and fostering political instability. The claim that
the United States was not involved in the colonization of the African continent
is misleading and false....
Posted Dec 22, 2008
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