Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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Working people across the United States marched and rallied on International Workers’ Day to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime and its anti-worker, pro-billionaire policies, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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Three pro-Palestine activists in Singapore have been found guilty under the Public Order Act and fined, after the High Court upheld an appeal on April 30, overturning their earlier acquittal, reports Susan Price.
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While the United States-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon has distracted world attention, Israel has intensified its genocidal attack against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, reports Barry Sheppard.
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A Center for Economic and Policy Research report identified the intensification of United States sanctions against Cuba as the primary cause of a 148% increase in the island’s infant mortality rate. Marx del Rosario reports.
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This year’s Ecosocialism conference will, for the first time, be held in Magan-djin/Brisbane, once again drawing ecosocialists and activists from across the world, reports Fred Fuentes.
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A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) have launched a mass campaign, “We are all YPJ — Self-defence is our natural right”, demanding that the Rojava revolution’s Women’s Protection Units be included in Syria’s integrated armed forces, reports Peter Boyle.
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Notwithstanding all the death and destruction meted out by the United States and Israel against Iran, they have failed to achieve victory and exposed the limits of US imperialism, writes Dave Holmes.
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Graduating students in Kobakma town, in Indonesian occupied West Papua’s Central Mamberamo Regency, were attacked by security forces, on May 5, for carrying their national flag in a celebratory parade, reports Susan Price.
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Death penalty abolitionist and social justice activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi was charged over her refusal two-and-a-half years ago to comply with a government censorship order, reports Susan Price.
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Médecins Sans Frontières has released a report documenting how Israel is deliberately depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water and sanitation, reports Kerry Smith.
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Peaceful protests against the worsening human rights situation in occupied West Papua were attacked by security forces, reports Susan Price.