At a rally of tens of thousands in Plaza Caracas on January 23, President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelan workers to mobilise for the electoral battle for the Yes campaign for a vote in the February 15 referendum in favour of a constitutional amendment to abolish the two-term limit on elected positions in Venezuela.
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Israel is an apartheid state. This is the explanation for the appallingly assymetrical nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict, graphically demonstrated in the latest carnage in Gaza.
The worrying part about whether the ceasefire in Gaza can hold together will be whether the international community can stop the flow of arms to the terrorists.
After eight bloodthirsty years, the tenure of former president of the United States, George Bush, finally came to an end on January 20 when Democrat Barack Obama took the presidential oath.
“What truce are they talking about. We work on the land just like farmers. We don’t have bombs. These people don’t want to make any truce”, Khalil Mohamed Breaim told Al Jazeera on January 28.
Huge crowds have taken to the streets in France to protest over the handling of the economic crisis, causing disruption to rail and air services, according to a January 29 BBC News report.
A senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), CP Gajurel stated that the Maoists are prepared to unleash yet another “massive” struggle to institutionalise the Nepal’s new republic, According to a January 4 NepalNews.com article.
John Bellamy Foster is editor of US socialist publication Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of a number of books including Marx’s Ecology. This interview with him on the economic crisis is republished with permission from WIN magazine, the journal of the US-based War Resisters League (http://warresisters.org/win).
The article below is reprinted from http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org. For more information, contact the Communist Party of Israel, http://www.maki.org.il, info@maki.org.il.
Hell & High Water: Climate Change, Hope & the Human Condition
By Alastair McIntosh
Birlinn, 2008
289 pages, $29.95
By Alastair McIntosh
Birlinn, 2008
289 pages, $29.95
After Bolivias new constitution that greatly expands rights for the indigenous majority was passed in a national referendum on January 25, thousands gathered in La Paz to celebrate.
Message Stick: The Apology — Looks at the anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations. ABC, Sunday, February 8, 1.30pm.
Dateline — Interview with former prime minister and now president of Israel, Shimon Peres,
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