Prensa Latina reported on April 11 that more than 100,000 Bolivians have already learned to read and write through the Cuban Yes, I Can literacy program since it began early last year. According to education minister Victor Caceres, in La Paz, more than 40,000 of the 286,280 people in the program have already graduated. The national program aims to teach more than 1.2 million illiterate people how to read and write so that the country can be free from illiteracy in 2008. President Evo Morales has already declared Tocata municipality, in Cochabamba, the first locality to be illiteracy-free.
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“The PST has increased its vote slightly on its results in 2000", Avelino Coelho da Silva, secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Timor, told Green Left Weekly by telephone from Dili. Coelho was the PST’s candidate in the country’s April 9 presidential election, the final results of which will be officially announced by the National Election Commission (CNE) on April 16.
Organisers from the Philippines biggest left trade union centre, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP Solidarity of Filipino Workers) spoke to Green Left Weeklys Sue Bolton about the repression that they encounter from the state and their efforts to unify left-wing trade unions.
Nearly 700,000 people have signed an international online petition in solidarity with Vietnams victims of Agent Orange, which was sprayed extensively by the US military during the Vietnam War. The petition, which was launched in 2004, will be presented to the judges of the US Court of Appeal on the eve of an expected June ruling on a victims lawsuit against the nearly 40 chemical companies that produced the deadly chemical for the US military.
In actions that have echos of the struggle in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, teachers and their union have installed themselves outside the governors office in the southern province of Neuquen, calling for better salaries and governor Jorge Omar Sobischs resignation.
Four years ago, I walked through Melbournes CBD holding a placard that read: No blood for oil. I was an idealistic university student, intent on letting my government know that its not okay to launch an invasion in pursuit of so-called black gold in a country that was no threat to mine.
By late March, Spain’s wind power generation was contributing 27% of the country’s total daily power demands, surpassing supplies by nuclear and coal. This marks a new record for the contribution of wind-generated power to Spain’s electricity grid.
In late March, Green Left Weekly’s Jim McIlroy spoke to Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, in Lahore. The LPP is a revolutionary socialist organisation working with other forces to end the dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf, and seeking to unite workers, peasants, women and youth in the struggle to bring about socialism in Pakistan. The interview took place amidst the campaign by lawyers and their supporters to reinstate the suspended Chief Justice of the Pakistan High Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
Official British government figures released on March 27 revealed that in the past year, the number of children in Britain living in relative poverty increased by 200,000. According to the March 27 BBC News, in 2005-06 the total number of children who satisfied the official definition of relative poverty living in households with incomes equalling less than 60% of the national average when housing costs are included rose from 3.6 million to a staggering 3.8 million.
The Socialist Alliance condemns the Australian governments decision to deploy a 300-strong Special Operations Task Group to Afghanistan and repeats its call for a withdrawal of all Australian, US and NATO occupation forces from that country.
In the lead-up to the March 24 NSW state election, you could be forgiven for believing that the NSW Greens were drug dealers: Hysterical attacks were launched on the party’s drugs policy, which focuses on harm minimisation and health issues.
How did it happen that the President of Venezuela reached out to help the poor and the indigenous people of the United States?, Tim Giago asked in a March 19 Indianz.com article. He was referring to the provision of cheap heating oil to the US poor, including a number of Native American tribes, by the government of Venezuelas socialist president, Hugo Chavez.
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