Search
Search results
-
Bolivia: Amazon protest 鈥 development before environment?
a battleground of the US 鈥war on drugs鈥. The cocalero (coca-growers) movement, head by Morales, was the backbone ... Territory and National Isiboro Secure Park (TIPNIS), to initiate a 500-kilometre protest march on ... focused on the supposed hypocrisy of the government headed by Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous ...
-
Venezuela: Chavistas debate pace of change
November when he declared war on price speculation and in doing so, invigorated the Chavista base. As part ... face of the opposition鈥檚 at times violent tactics in February. Thus,on successive days in late ... February, Maduro spoke at mass rallies of women, oil workers, motorcyclists, telephone workers, and finally ...
-
Latin America's struggle for integration and independence
Federico Fuentes 760 Caracas July 26, 2008 Commenting on how much the two had in common 鈥 same ... President Felipe Calderon on April 11 that "perhaps we represent the new generation of leaders in Latin ... presidents. The former priest joins the ranks of current Latin American presidents that includes two women ...
-
Human rights, the UN and the US blockade
tragedy and concentrate on elitist concerns. War, xenophobia, neo-fascism and racism are proliferating all ... around us; perfidious forms of women's and children's degradation are on the rise; unemployment ... ROBAINA, to the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on October 3, 1994. While we are here ...
-
History of Indigenous resistance
materialised. In fact, living conditions for some Aboriginal people have grown worse. On January 26, 2008, with ... culture, which represents the oldest continuing culture in human history." Those comments, made on ... cloak Aboriginal related policy issues in the language of "history wars" in which any ...
-
Venezuela: Reform battle continues as Chavez ally splits
to the streets of Caracas on November 4, in a massive sea of red, to support the proposed ... constitutional reforms adopted by the National Assembly that will be put to a referendum on December 2. ... power to the poor majority. On November 6, Chavez explained to a swearing-in ceremony for activists ...
-
ITALY: Communist Party adopts radical left turn
and "acts politically for the construction of an alternative left on the social, cultural and ... message. In his opening address, PRC national secretary Fausto Bertinotti called on delegates to rethink ... This extraordinary event along with the general strike on April 16 (in which 13 million workers ...
-
UNITED STATES: A voice crying in the wilderness
for the Gulf War and is fanatically pro-Israeli. But so too is Gore, whose Harvard teacher and one of ... politics; this in a constitutional system based explicitly on secularism, the total separation of church and ... state. Aside from its unconstitutional flavour, the universal emphases on "faith" in both ...
-
Rio Tinto: the world's worst company?
improvements. But its history of ties to the apartheid regime, its abuse of indigenous peoples, its attacks on ... "brow-beating opponents, leaning on governments and price-fixing, to violating international law, union-busting ... on the London stock exchange, funded by English capitalists and Deutsche National Bank, a German ...
-
52 left-leaning albums from 2014
your only goal is to slap legislation on women's bodies preventing them from making an already ... Comment below, on Twitter or Facebook. * * * 1. BRISBANE BLACKS- INVASION DAY MIXTAPE Radical newspaper ... holiday, which commemorates the landing of the First Fleet on January 26, 1788, is celebrated by most ...
-
When opportunities went begging
on the Australian Left. This often led to strange and tortured alliances and inevitably acrimonious ... created on the left by the lurch to the right by the Hawke Labor government; and the seemingly positive ... moves by the CPA to collaborate with the ALP against Frasers wage freeze and attacks on Medicare. The ...
-
VENEZUELA: Creating socialism in this century
on Venezuela's state-run National Radio. What is your opinion of the present stage of the ... involvement of the members will not be accepted unless it is fully discussed from the bottom to the top. On ... has been impossible to agree on a united opposition candidate for president. In 1998, the US forced ...
-
FIDEL CASTRO: cancel Third World debt, end corporate tyranny
decisions on investment and development. It is they who are responsible for material production, essential ... and spends them. In many countries, the entire government could go on vacation and nobody would even ... services, trade unions, universities, secondary schools, and farmers, women's and neighbourhood ...
-
Cuban emigration and virtual reality
hostages on board. Not only was the obligation to deport the terrorists and hijackers to Cuba not ... common Cuban citizen unbearable in order to produce a civil war against the regime. William Safire ... the radio stations (now 17) which transmit special programs for Cuba from Florida, on which those who ...
-
Immigration and the environment: is Australia overpopulated?
poverty and have opened opportunities to women outside the home. In a 1986 report on Our Common Future, ... depends entirely on its local environment to meet all its needs. A range of commodities are universally ... heavily on world markets to meet its food and resource needs. While the assumption that poverty is ...
-
Unleaded petrol: have we been told the full story?
blamed the whole thing on too many cars. The actual figures on car ownership at the time show that while ... driving hours on the road (which was political suicide at the time) or put something into cars to change ... producing it. Producers, however, kept on turning out petrol from low grade oils with the resulting ...
-
Tea Party politics coming to Australia?
jocks, and aims to mobilise people on a populist and racist agenda. Last August, a website called the TEA ... for conservatives鈥 the Sydney Morning Herald said on March 5 Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott and ... that carbon pollution is causing climate change. They have called for a rally in Canberra on March 23 ...
-
Prague 2000: Boris Kagarlitsky's diary of the people's movement
426 November 1, 2000 Part two of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the ... a seminar on problems of globalisation, conducted by the Initiative Against Economic Globalisation (IAEG), ... from the establishment an example of real democracy!聰 A small group of young women from Latvia sit in ...
-
The world condemns Honduras coup, demands elected President Manuel Zelaya returns
of men and women who attended to exercise their right to vote, and on being informed of the ... struggle to restore elected President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown in a military coup on June 28. This is only ... with representatives of the Lenca People on the way to Tegucigalpa. We tell everyone that the Honduran ...
-
Campbell鈥檚 cuts make for razor-sharp rap
Serbia. One in particular, on my father's side, he was a Chetnik during World War II. There's ... have disappeared." On gaining office last year, the Liberal Premier cut to the quick, scything ... through services within hours. Newman wasted no time in laying waste to the arts- on his first day, he ...