Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution, led by socialist President Hugo Chavez, has captured the imagination of people around the world and sparked widespread commentary on the nature of the process of social change under way in the oil-rich South American nation.
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Forty years after his assassination, Ernesto 鈥淐he鈥 Guevara remains ubiquitous. His image is familiar to everyone. Taken by Alberto Korda, the famous photo of Che shows a young revolutionary looking into the middle-distance with an expression of intense, steely determination. The image has come to symbolise the struggle for Third Wold independence, and is synonymous with the Cuban Revolution, which overthrew a US-backed dictator to institutionalise people鈥檚 power.
If you were to believe those federal government advertisements now saturating television and radio, pigs do fly.
Class-free analysis seeking to justify Beijing聮s pursuit of capitalism with a human face will likely find a place in the Communist Party of China聮s constitution at the party聮s 17th congress, which begins on October 15. A scheduled constitutional amendment is expected to be couched in such terms as the pursuit of a 聯socialist harmonious society聰 and a 聯people-centred聰 聯scientific concept of development聰, which will be credited as 聯major theoretical developments聰 of CPC general secretary Hu Jintao.
The message of the new CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology report to the Australian Climate Change Science Program, Climate Change in Australia, couldn聮t be simpler: Stop fiddling while Australia burns!
As the October 24 hearing approaches for the Perth-Mandurah railway tunnel construction workers 聴 who are being prosecuted by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) for taking 聯unlawful聰 industrial action in February 2006 against the sacking of the health and safety union representative 聴 new research has exposed 聯critically high聰 levels of injury in the construction industry.
The federal government should restore Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef聮s work visa immediately, and pay him compensation for distress and financial loss, Jim McIlroy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the south Brisbane seat of Griffith, told Green left Weekly. Griffith is held by ALP leader Kevin Rudd.
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"... one of the eight guests sitting around a table with [Emperor George] Bush at the White House, reported: 'Responding to one of the bloggers in Iraq he expressed envy that they could be there, and said he'd like to be there
With a federal election imminent, many working people are placing their hopes of defeating the Howard government in the ALP. Many have hoped that a future ALP federal government will indeed 聯tear up聰 Work Choices and other reactionary legislation introduced by the Howard government, such as the 聯anti-terror聰 laws.
Bolivia鈥檚 right-wing continues to wage its campaign of opposition to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government, led by the country鈥檚 first indigenous President Evo Morales. With the right having succeeded in forcing the temporary closure of the Constituent Assembly, entrusted with the task of drafting a constitution to 鈥渞efound鈥 Bolivia, the country finds itself on the verge of the definitive closure of this historic space, conquered by the indigenous and campesino movements through years of struggle.
It has been a year of political tours and counter-tours for Latin America, principally by the two figures who dominate the regional political landscape: Venezuela鈥檚 socialist President Hugo Chavez and US President George W. Bush. While Bush embarked on a tour in March of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico, Chavez made his move by visiting Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Haiti. At each stop, the warmonger who presides over the US empire was met with mass protests; the firebrand revolutionary proclaiming the need for a new socialism of the 21st century was met with mass outpourings of support.
About 10 stalls with banners, photos, information and signature books filled Cochabamba聮s Plaza 14 de Septiembre on October 2 as Bolivians continued their campaign for Evo Morales, the country聮s first indigenous president, to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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