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The 7th World Social Forum is underway in Nairobi, Kenya. This is a report from Jean Hayes, who is from Fresno Ca. Jean also attended last year’s WSF in Caracas Venezuela. The photo below is Uhuru Park, where opening ceremonies were held....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 3:26pm PST
Bayan Muna member gunned down in Northern Samar A member of the party-list group Bayan Muna and chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) in Northern Samar was gunned down late yesterday afternoon by a motorcycle-riding assassin in front of students at the University of Eastern Philippines in Catarman. Professor Jose Maria Cui, also a former secretary general of human rights group Karapatan in the Eastern Visayas, died on the spot after being shot in the head and chest by an unidentified suspect outside the Engineering Buildi...
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:26am PST
Democratic Agenda Omissions How Democrats again betraying the public trust....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:27am PST
The significance of Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s nationalizations Presidential inaugurations in Venezuela and Ecuador over the past week were marked by calls for “socialism” and “revolution.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:17am PST
Violent police evacuation in Oaxaca URGENT ACTION: Violent police evacuation of the gathered family members at Miahuatlán and several arbitrary detentions....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 2:10pm PST
Germany: How “Socialist Alternative” blocks the building of an independent socialist movem The SAV (Socialist Alternative) group, the German affiliate of Peter Taaffe’s Socialist Party in Britain, regards as its main task the prevention of an independent movement of the working class. This was made clear at its recent national conference to determine its attitude to the Left Party, which will be formed in 2007 from a merger of the Left Party-Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the so-called “Election Alternative—Jobs and Social Justice” (WASG)....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 6:19am PST
In Colombia, Free Trade Means Murder and Migration Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 6:16am PST
The Fires of Revolt: December 19th and 20th in Argentina The Rebellion of the 19th and 20th of December 20, 2001, was one of the greatest events of the contemporary history of the country....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 8:29pm PST
Barry Pateman, Then and Now: Thoughts on Anarchism Barry Pateman Associate Editor, has been working with the Emma Goldman Papers since June 1999, and had been the Projects research associate in the U.K. since 1989.
He spoke in Santa Cruz at the Anarchist Cafe on January 6th 2007...
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 12:54pm PST
Labor Conflict at the Hotel Versus (Burgos, Spain) From the Permanent Solidarity Assembly we ask for solidarity with our companion and ex-employee of the Hotel Versus because the business owner (an old man known in Euskadi who fled from there to carry on with his neccessities in Burgos) owes the amount of 3,000 Euros to our companion and has said he won't pay it....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 12:22pm PST
Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) Year-End Report, 2006 The year 2006 was a fruitful and a meaningful year for Filipino World War II Veterans and their advocates.
The Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) started the year with a collective action and ended it with a Christmas celebration.
JFAV was formed in December 16, 1998 in Los Angeles. It took over from the December 7 Movement (D7M) that started the veterans movement gfor recogntion, justice and equity campaign with the first mass action infront of the Westwood Federal buildin...
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 11:02am PST
What is the problem ? I am also a Trotskyist ! Chavez sworn in as President in Venezuela Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 3:56am PST
The Class War's New Map: Billionaires Head for the Closet The boiling, surging, churning and corporatizing economy of the United States is racing far ahead of its being understood by political economists, economists, politicians and the polis itself. Tidbits from the past week add up to this view, to wit:...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 10:35am PST
OAXACA: [ political prisoner protest camp ] Violent Eviction no estamos todxs, faltan lxs presxs!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 2:35am PST
Holiday Hypocrisy The corruption of US holidays for patriotism and profit....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 11:05am PST
Iraqi regime set to hand over oil reserves to US energy giants As the Bush administration prepares to escalate military violence against the Iraqi people the US-installed regime in Baghdad is set to approve a new hydrocarbon law that will hand unprecedented control of the country’s vast oil reserves to US and British energy conglomerates. The new law, the terms of which were detailed by the British newspaper the Independent on January 7, makes a mockery of any claims of Iraqi sovereignty and underscores that the real aim of the bloody enterprise by US im...
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 8:51am PST
Russian oil pipeline interruption intensifies struggle for raw materials The interruption of oil supplies through the most important pipeline between Russia and Europe has unleashed a vigorous debate over the future supply of power to Europe....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 6:12am PST
Report: Gates Foundation Causing Harm With the Same Money It Uses To Do Good The Los Angeles Times has revealed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made millions of dollars each year from companies blamed for many of the same social and health problems the Foundation seeks to address. We speak with the lead reporter on the LA Times investigative team that broke the story....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:11am PST
Gazprom wrests control of Sakhalin-2 gas project from Shell The state-owned Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom has taken majority control of the multibillion-dollar Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, previously majority-owned by the Anglo-Dutch firm Royal Dutch Shell. Months of negotiations, threats of legal action and government pressure from Russia, Japan, Britain and Holland ended on December 21 with Shell acquiescing to Gazprom’s offer of $4.1 billion for half of its previous 55 percent stake in the venture....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:06am PST
Nairobi, KENYA: 7th World Social Forum (WSF), Jan 20--25th The 7th World Social Forum (WSF) will be held from 20 until 25 January 2007 at the Moi International Sports Center Kasarani, Nairobi and is expected to host up to 150,000 delegates from all over the world. Over 1,000 activities will take place in the 106 spaces provided at the venue....
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 7:50pm PST
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