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Ecuador: Correa expels US official

As Ecuadorians prepare for their first general elections under the progressive new constitution adopted in a referendum last year, tensions with the United States continue to rise with the government expelling a key US diplomat.

Demystifying the economic crisis

Meltdown! A Socialist view of the Capitalist Crisis
By Tony Iltis, Lee Sustar, John Bellamy Foster, Phil Hearse, Adam Hanieh & Dave Holmes
Resistance Books, 2009
54 pages, $6.00
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Beat the car 鈥 increase public transport

Sydney residents of the lower north shore and inner city are increasingly 聯electing聰 to drive to work 聯despite living a relatively short bus ride from the heart of the city聰, a report in the February 10 Sydney Morning Herald concluded.

Philippines: Urban poor join new left party

聯We are the bat people, the people who lived under bridges in Manila聰, explained urban poor organiser Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a section of an urban poor relocation settlement in Bulacan, about 60 kilometres north of Manila.

Sri Lanka: Hospitals bombed, civilians massacred

Sri Lankan Air Force bombers destroyed the Ponnampalam Memorial Hospital in the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in northern Sri Lanka on February 6. According to Tamilnet.com, 61 patients were killed in the attack.

Latin America: The rebirth of socialism and revolution

Luis Bilbao is an Argentine socialist currently based in Venezuela. He is the editor of the Latin America-wide magazine America XXI and is a central participant in the construction of the mass-based United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party initiated by President Hugo Chavez to help unite Venezuela鈥檚 revolutionary forces to push for the construction of a 鈥渟ocialism of the 21st century鈥.

Non-union ferry: bad news for workers and passengers

The Sydney branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and its supporters have rallied each day at Circular Quay since February 10.

Israel's racist ethnic cleansing

As of February 12, it was still unclear who will end up forming the next Israeli government following the February 10 parliamentary elections, with negotiations to form a new ruling coalition possibly continuing for six weeks. However, what is clear is that regardless of who the eventual prime minister is or which parties are in the cabinet, the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is set to intensify.