Chávez Declares Support for Venezuelan Indigenous Occupying Ancestral Lands
August 29, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
James Suggett on Hugo Chávez's support for indigenous communities in Venezuela.
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Manufactured Famine
August 29, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
George Monbiot on the European trade initiatives which are likely to exacerbate existing food shortages in the developing world.
Windfall tax: Good for the Country, Good for Labour
August 29, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Zoe Gannon believes a progressive policy on taxation would help restore working-class support for Labour and revive the party's electoral prospects.
Thirty-Eight Trade Unionists Assassinated in Colombia in 2008
August 29, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Colombia's state-linked paramilitaries are becoming more efficient in their murderous campaign against the trade unionists.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela Begins Campaign for Regional Elections
August 29, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Tamara Pearson on the start of election campaigning in Venezuela.
The Contradiction of Choice from the Government
August 22, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Government offers us 'choice' as 'empowerment' but are they really giving us less choice as a result?
Corporate Media Bashes Venezuelan Government’s Law Decrees
August 22, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Chavez critics don't explain Venezuelan law or how Supreme Court rulings interpret it. Nor do they report how the Enabling Law works, that the nation's Constitution authorizes it, that four other presidents used it, among many other things. How can they? It would expose their false accusations and discredit their entire argument.
Where does Labour stand after Miliband?
August 22, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The recent intervention by David Miliband and the resulting manoeuvrings reveals much about the febrile state within the Labour Party. Beyond the Blairite-Brownite soap opera, which goes on even after one of the protagonists leaves the stage - rather like Ernie Wise continuing to define himself after poor Eric passed away - this is an existential crisis for Labour.
Czechoslovakia
August 22, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsForty years ago, on the night of August 20th-21st Russian and other Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia, thus putting an end to the 'Prague Spring.'
The Magic Pudding
August 22, 2008 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
George Monbiot on why the US government still pouring billions into missile defence.