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Eyewitness report: Nepal, May 1 -- 500,000+ mobilise, talks fail, general strike is on
Photo by Jed Brandt.
By Jed Brandt, Kathmandu
May 1, 2010 -- Late into the night, after a long May 1 in Kathmandu: I just left the Radisson Hotel where negotiations had been going on. Dr Baburam Bhattarai, a top leader of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and its negotiating team, came out the doors to say that the three negotiating parties have not reached an agreement. The general strike is on.
Others in attendance at the negotiations included the Congress party and the [pro-capitalist] Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist). The hated, isolated current prime minister M.K. Nepal will not resign.
Bhattarai was sharp and direct. Since they will not make way for a national unity government, the agitation will increase tomorrow with a national general strike to topple the unpopular and unelected government.
A city filled for May 1 and for struggle
The May 1 rally today was well over 500,000.
April 29, 2010 -- The Scottish Socialist Party is standing in 10 seats across Scotland in the UK general election on May 6.The video above was broadcast on BBC TV on April 23.
SSP election manifesto: `For an independent socialist Scotland'
No cuts, no wars, for an end to corruption
Nnimmo Bassey interviewed by Democracy Now! (Transcript below).
April 21, 2010 -- Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: Among those who spoke at the opening ceremony for the World Peoples’ Climate Conference was Nnimmo Bassey. He’s the
prominent Nigerian environmentalist and chair of Friends of the Earth
International. By contrast, at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in
December, his group, along with several other mainstream environmental
organisations, was barred from the talks.
Democracy Now! producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous spoke with
Nnimmo Bassey outside the conference gates here in Tiquipaya. He began
by asking to talk about the significance of the Bolivian summit.
Clara Zetkin’s struggle for the united front
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Bolivia: Ambassador Pablo Solon on why thousands will attend World People's Climate Summit
Pablo Solon, part 1. Parts 2 and 3 below.
April 11, 2010 -- World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth via Climate and Capitalism.
The thoughts of `Chairman' Chicka Dixon; `The Fox has the last laugh'
"My thoughts on life. `The thoughts of Chairman Chicka', they could be called. I believe every woman of this planet is my sister. I believe every man on this planet is my brother. Like all Kooris [Indigenous people] I know the earth is my mother. We must learn to share with those three. If the rest of the world could adopt that philosophy of caring and sharing, there would be no wars. But most importantly, there would be no starving children." -- the late Charles "Chicka" "the Fox" Dixon, speaking at the Australian Museum, in December 2003.
