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Anthony Fenton | 1 May 2006 03:10
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Venezuelan "pro-democracy" group to organize primary election to pick opposition candidate


Copyright 2006 Associated Press
All Rights Reserved
Associated Press Worldstream

April 18, 2006 Tuesday 9:53 PM GMT

SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

LENGTH: 474 words

HEADLINE: Venezuelan pro-democracy group to organize primary election  
to pick opposition candidate

BYLINE: By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, Associated Press Writer

DATELINE: CARACAS Venezuela

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Leaders of a U.S.-backed vote watchdog group said Tuesday they will  
organize a primary election to pick an opposition candidate to  
compete against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in upcoming  
presidential elections.

Maria Corina Machado, a director of Sumate, said the organization was  
inviting all of Venezuela's opposition parties to participate in the  
election tentatively scheduled for June 16. Sumate plans to organize  
the vote without help from the National Elections Council, she said.
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shniad | 1 May 2006 07:00
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May Day Canada 2006


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      A Socialist Project e-bulletin ....  No. 17  .... April 30, 2006
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			May Day Canada 2006

The fight of popular movements across the world against neoliberal
capitalism over the last decade has not been an easy one. The increasing
reliance on global markets and corporate power as the vehicles for
organizing economic, social and political life has yielded increasing
inequalities between and within countries. Workers have faced
deteriorating conditions in their workplaces, and setbacks over wages and
living standards. Unions have been struggling to organize and re-make
themselves.

However, this year's May Day, the International Workers' Day celebrated
around the world, has as a backdrop several positive signs after the
setbacks for labour during the 1990s. In Latin America, the political
breakthroughs in Venezuela and Bolivia have ended the isolation of Cuba,
and given a real sense of a resurgence of the Left. There is also likely
to be positive reverberations from the wave of unrest and general strikes
that have unfolded in Nepal against the corrupt and authoritarian
monarchy, and that have led to an initial restoration of democracy. The
successful strikes of students and workers in France defeating neoliberal
labour legislation gave a vigorous shot in the arm to the European labour
movement as a whole. Numerous other resistances, from the general strike
in Guinea to privatization fightbacks, to the continued success of the
World Social Forums, all seem to record the continued importance of
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shniad | 1 May 2006 07:01
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What you need to know about May Day

		What you need to know about May Day

			Leo Panitch

For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of
workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The
answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own
radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a
century ago.

The seeds were sown in the campaign for the eight-hour work day. On May 1,
1886, hundreds of thousands of North American workers mobilized to strike.
In Chicago, the demonstration spilled over into support for workers at a
major farm-implements factory who'd been locked out for union activities.
On May 3, during a pitched battle between picketers and scabs, police shot
two workers. At a protest rally in Haymarket Square the next day, a bomb
was tossed into the police ranks and police directed their fire
indiscriminately at the crowd. Eight anarchist leaders were arrested,
tried and sentenced to death (three were later pardoned).

These events triggered international protests, and in 1889, the first
congress of the new socialist parties associated with the Second
International (the successor to the First International organized by Karl
Marx in the 1860s) called on workers everywhere to join in an annual
one-day strike on May 1 - not so much to demand specific reforms as an
annual demonstration of labour solidarity and working-class power. May Day
was both a product of, and an element in, the rapid growth of new mass
working-class parties of Europe - which soon forced official recognition
by employers and governments of this "workers' holiday."
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baclawa | 1 May 2006 21:59
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 29 April 2006.

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 29 April 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial 
board, the Free Arab Voice.  http://www.freearabvoice.org

Saturday. 29 April 2006.

ˇ       Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier on 
patrol in ar-Ramadi.

ˇ       Resistance bomber attacks checkpoint in Rawah, reportedly 
killing three US troops Friday evening.

ˇ       Resistance bomb kills five American mercenaries south of 
Balad.

ˇ       Two US troops reported killed in Resistance grenade attack 
near al-Hawijah.

ˇ       US soldier reported killed in bomb explosion in al-Mawsil.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Hadithah.

Resistance mortars strike US camp near al-Hadithah Dam.

In a dispatch posted at 5:15pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, 
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired three 
82mm mortar rounds into the US military headquarters located near 
the al-Hadithah Dam, about 300km northwest of Baghdad.
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baclawa | 1 May 2006 22:26
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Re: [prfw] Prvomajski mars Partije rada

Poštovanje Partija,

Monday, May 1, 2006, 5:13:06 PM, napisali ste:

> Partija rada
> E-mail: prada <at> beotel.yu
> Web: www.partijarada.org.yu

> May Day march of Partija rada

>            Today it is held traditional May Day march of Partija rada. Red flags and parole “Death to
privatization!” flutter again over workers suburb of Belgrade, Rakovica. That was only militant
celebration of May Day in Serbia. Social paroles are emphasized, and it is condemned further worsening of
social position of workers in society.

>            To all Comrades we wish militant May Day.

> AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM!

> AGAINST IMPERIALISM!

> FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE!

> FOR SOCIALISM!

First, unofficial photos from May Day march can be seen on:
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/prfw/photos/browse/1511?c= . Official
pictures will be uploaded on Party web site
( http://www.partijarada.org.yu ) very soon.
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Macdonald Stainsby | 1 May 2006 22:40
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Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela poised to sign anti-US trade pact

Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela poised to sign anti-US trade pact
  Agence France Presse Sat Apr 29, 4:04 AM ET

The leaders of Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela are poised to sign what they 
call "a people's" trade accord designed to counter US efforts to forge a 
free-trade area of the Americas spreading from Alaska to Cape Horn.

Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela arrived 
in the Cuban capital Friday to prepare for the signing of the People's 
Trade Treaty that will streamline commercial relations between the three 
populist governments opposed to trade policies of the United States.

Nicaraguan Sandinistra leader Daniel Ortega, who will seek to return to 
power in the November elections, was also on hand.

"It will be a great meeting of three generations of revolutionaries, of 
people representing the three revolutions that we still have to 
broaden," declared Morales after his arrival at Havana airport.

The Bolivian leader expressed confidence the People's Trade Treaty will 
help promote "just trade, trade that generates jobs, ensures living 
standards and defends human dignity."

Cuban President Fidel Castro said the accord that is about to be signed 
was "an extraordinary document with profound humanitarian, social and 
economic content."

Morales, who swept to the Bolivian presidency on a wave of popular 
discontent last December, will also formally join the so-called 
"Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas," an initiative promoted by
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Friends | 1 May 2006 23:21
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THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD THE REPUBLIC IS BACK! WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS ON CHOKE-CHAINS


An update from http://www.lifeboatnews.com

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THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD!
THE REPUBLIC IS BACK! 

Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2006, 3:28 a.m.

This is just the beginning folks, I can't tell you more.

WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS ON CHOKE-CHAINS

County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal law enforcement officers 
and personnel from federal regulatory agencies 
must clear all their activities in a Wyoming county with the Sheriff's Office. 

Speaking at a press conference following the recent US District Court decision (case No 2:96-cv-099-J) 
Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis stated that all federal officials 
are forbidden to enter his county without his prior approval.

"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county 
he has the constitutional power and right to keep them out
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Macdonald Stainsby | 2 May 2006 00:38
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What hidden agenda?

  Al Pope, April 24, 2005

     What hidden agenda?

     According to U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, “personal chemistry” 
between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and American President George 
Bush, was a key factor in clinching last week’s deal on softwood lumber. 
A lot of Canadians are beginning to wonder if the chemistry involves a 
transfer of genetic material, with Harper at the downstream end.

     After the recent federal election it was widely predicted that 
while he had a minority Harper would lie low, play the moderate, and try 
to appeal to the majority of Canadian voters, who hover around the muddy 
middle of the political spectrum. Then, when the polls were favourable, 
he would either call an election or force a vote he must lose. Returning 
with a majority, the prediction went, he could pursue his secret agenda 
of American style politics.

     To almost everyone’s surprise, Harper has done nothing to hide his 
agenda. In truth it was his accuser-in-chief, former prime minister Paul 
Martin, who tried to play both sides of the fence with the US, pursuing 
a policy of military and economic integration while offering up 
protestations of independence and defence of sovereignty for public 
consumption. Since replacing Martin, Harper hasn’t even bothered to 
disguise his love for George Bush and conservative America.

     Harper seems openly to emulate Bush at every opportunity. His first 
act in office was an official visit to the troops in Afghanistan, and 
though there’s nothing unusual about a head of state visiting the 
forces, Harper seemed to go out of his way to speak in Bushisms
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shniad | 2 May 2006 01:16
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Pakistan, the U.S. and 9-11

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/south_asia/GA27Df05.html

Asia Times     January 27, 2005 

India's US-Pakistan suspicions deepen

By Sultan Shahin 

New Delhi - Two facts emerged in the space of a few days last week that have
made India deeply suspicious of Washington's intentions in the region. One,
US secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice told senators that the
administration of President George W Bush has a "contingency plan" to
prevent "Islamic fundamentalists" from getting access to Pakistan's nuclear
weapons if "something happened" to Pakistani President General Pervez
Musharraf and they succeeded in capturing power. 

India had hardly finished munching on this revelation's mind-boggling
implications for regional stability when another fact emerged. Award-winning
journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in a New Yorker article, the substance of
which was not refuted by Washington, that Musharraf is fully cooperating
with the United States in penetrating Iranian soil and looking for sensitive
nuclear-related sites with the help of highly sophisticated devices, so that
at an appropriate time these can be destroyed by pinpoint air and missile
attacks and deep-penetration commando strikes. 

Hersh claimed that a US commando task force in South Asia is already working
closely with a group of Pakistani scientists who had dealt with their
Iranian counterparts earlier. This task force, aided by information from
Pakistan, has been penetrating eastern Iran in a hunt for underground
nuclear-weapons installations. In exchange for this cooperation, an
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shniad | 2 May 2006 01:15
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Trudeau exaggerated FLQ crisis

Ottawa Citizen	    6.1.01 

Trudeau exaggerated FLQ crisis 

PM told British 'no conspiracy' behind October Crisis: newly declassified
files

By Bruce Wallace 

London -- Canada's federal government confided to the British government
during the 1970 October Crisis it had "no evidence of an extensive and
co-ordinated FLQ conspiracy," despite public declarations at home that the
extraordinary police powers of the War Measures Act were necessary to fight
an "apprehended insurrection." 

The blunt assessment is contained in notes of a meeting in London on Nov.
26, 1970, between then-external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp and Sir Alec
Douglas-Home, his British counterpart. They were unsealed this week, along
with thousands of other British government documents, after a legally
required interim of 30 years. 

Mr. Sharp is recorded as saying "the War Measures Act was clearly too broad
in its effect," which was why Canada was then in the process of introducing
a less draconian public-order law. The minutes of the meeting also show Mr.
Sharp expressing surprise and frustration at the inability of police to find
and free kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross. 

"Canada needed a more sophisticated police force to cope with the new kind
of political threat," he reportedly told Sir Alec and other senior officials
from the two countries in a late-afternoon meeting in the Foreign and
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