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Venezuela: 'A festival of the oppressed'

鈥淥ur experience of Venezuela is of a mass people鈥檚 revolution. It was something completely different from anything I had experienced in my life 鈥 simply the feeling of a mass revolution is something fantastic. It is reminiscent of [Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin鈥檚] phrase that 鈥榓 revolution is the festival of the oppressed鈥.鈥

Call for solidarity with Iraqi unionists

On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers鈥 Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued a call for 鈥渟trong condemnation鈥 by supporters of workers鈥 rights of US-led military raids on union offices in Baghdad on February 23 and 25. During the raids, targeting the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW), a member of the union鈥檚 security staff was arrested and office equipment was destroyed. On February 19, the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists was raided and computers and membership records were confiscated.

CIA funds terrorist operations against Iran

鈥淎t Iran鈥檚 request, the UN Security Council condemned the deadliest terrorist attack in the country in years and extended 鈥榮incere condolences鈥 to the Iranian people, but not to their government, at US insistence鈥, Associated Press reported on February 15.