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  • Nepal’s King gives up power but fails to end crisis
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Concessions unlikely to halt rebellion in Nepal
    Demonstrators demand abolition of monarchy
    Randeep Ramesh in Kathmandu
    Nepal’s King Gyanendra vowed to give up power but not the throne yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to placate protesters and win over political parties who want to end the 237-year-old rule of the Shah dynasty.
    A pale-looking monarch took to the airwaves last night to announce he would give up the absolute powers he seized 14 months ago and accept a government formed (…)

  • Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by the Financial Times Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’ by Adam Thomson Millions of people throughout Mexico are threatening to turn their backs on US products and businesses on May 1 as part of a protest that is being dubbed “the great American boycott”.
    Teachers, telephone operators, housewives and farmers are just a handful of the groups that have decided on the boycott as a way to support Latin Americans living in the US who (…)

  • Lessons of a Left Victory in France
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rick Wolff
    France’s leading bureaucrats, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have been defeated. French neo-liberalism — the dismantling of its welfare state in favor of business — has suffered a serious blow. A powerful alliance of high-school and university students and of organized labor achieved the victory against the government’s law that undercut job security for workers under 26 years of age. The alliance forced Chirac to annul the law — exactly what he and the other (…)

  • APRIL 2006 : Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action By Hands Off Venezuela Monday, 03 April 2006
    Dear friends,
    The last few weeks have been full of events related to Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. It seems that the United States have stepped up their campaign of pressure against Venezuela with a number of statements by Condolezza Rice and other high officials in Washington, including Director of National Security John Negroponte.
    In Britain this was followed by comments by Prime (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WHEREAS, Washington, under the Bush Administration, with bipartisan support in the US Congress, has an open policy of overturning the Cuban government and destroying the Cuban Revolution.
    WHEREAS, the US government has openly allocated millions of dollars towards that end, including direct payments to its clients and agents inside Cuba, the so-called dissidents.
    WHEREAS, US citizens and legal residents continue to be deprived of our Constitutional right to travel to Cuba to learn the (…)

  • RIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE US
    14 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Marching in the streets, making demands, the only rights I see that ILLEGAL immigrants might have in the U.S. are these:
    You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Do you understand?
    Anything you do say may be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand?
    You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future. Do you understand?
    If you cannot afford an attorney, (…)

  • France: The Issue behind the Barricades
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    Boy, those students sure have a lot of people in a tizzy. From the slightly left of center of the political spectrum all the way to the far right, pundits and politicians are outdoing each others to declare that something horrible is going on in the streets of France. At the former end, the students are being roundly ridiculed as lazy elitists, and on the far right, the whole French nation is being characterized as crazy. Some of the drivel passed on by the New York Times (…)

  • Turkey: Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
    By Justus Leicht 6 April 2006
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    During the past week, violent protests and demonstrations have taken place in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey, particularly in the regional metropolis of Diyarbakir. On Monday, 12 demonstrators were shot dead by security forces, including three children. More than 300 people were injured, including over 100 policemen. Several hundred (…)

  • US Media to French Youth: Fight for your right to be fired
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    APRIL 5, 2006 4:56 PM
    CONTACT: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 212-633-6700
    NEW YORK - April 5 - Given the mainstream media’s general antipathy towards France and nearly unanimous endorsement of neoliberal corporate globalization, it’s no surprise that reporters covering the massive student protests in France would be unimpressed with pleas to protect workers’ rights.
    The policy under fierce debate would allow many French employers more "flexibility" to hire and fire young workers (…)

  • Kleenex Workers by Barbara Ehrenreich (the Progressive )
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
    Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Well, take another look at the folks who invented the word liberté. Throughout the month of March and beyond, they were demonstrating, rioting, and burning up cars to preserve a right Americans can only dream of: the right not to be fired at (…)