CJAD 800 : News: Tibetans plan protest against Nortel role in Chinese railway project
–Some Canadian businesses have upset the Tibetan community for helping the Chinese government build a railway without raising the human rights concerns over what is going on in Tibet.

Canada NewsWire Group: Torstar can’t escape us — CEP women
–The company that owns the Toronto Star is under pressure from 26 women that were fired after 6 months on strike looking for pay equity. This type of action by the corporation should not be tolerated.

CBC British Columbia - Truckers’ strike affecting business
–Trucker’s strikes in BC have crippled the ports. They need our support and they need some real action from the government.

First Nations activists under attack | Autonomy & Solidarity
–First Nations’ Activists are under attack. They need the support of the left for their struggle against oppression.

BBC NEWS | Health | HIV drug target ‘will not be met’
–What a surprise… the HIV drug target will not be reached. The corporations and governments behind this failure are all our responsibility. We must put pressure on the governments to act because millions of people’s lives are at stake.

Bush at Fort Bragg-fear-mongering, lies and desperation
–See Dear Kitty’s article below for more detail but I thought I would post one of the articles from the World Socialist Web Site looking at Bush’s latest dive into un-reality.

Urgent solidarity with the workers of the occupied factories in Brazil
–Workers that have taken over factories in Brazil need international support so that they may face the pseudo left-wing government of Lula. It seems more evident every day that Lula has betrayed the movement that brought him to power.

UK Watch - Home: Downing Street Conspiracy
–This is an interesting article examining the role that the UK played in the lead-up to the war. It points out that the UK and the US were trying to find a reason to go to war with Iraq and no intention of letting anything get in their way. It is criminal.

UK Watch - Home: Destruction of the NHS
–A look at the slow death of the NHS in Britain. The slow privatization of the healthcare system in Britain is being mirrored in Canada. We must fight it.

PR Direct: Energy professionals’ right to picket maintained
–The engineers that are on strike at HydroOne in Ontario have recieved the right to legally picket at power plants. This is a win of the union.

ZNet |Venezuela | Venezuela: Workers Taking Back Control
–The workers are taking back control of their production. This is another look at what is happening on the ground in Venezuela and who is leading it.

Made in Venezuela: The Struggle to Reinvent Venezuelan Labor
–Labour in Venezuela is reorganizing and it is doing it from the grassroots. This is the way a socialist society should react to neo-liberalism.

ModBlog - Dear Kitty: USA: Bush speech on Iraq in Fort Bragg; reactions
–Dear Kitty has compiled the reactions from across the left over the Bush speech last night. For those that are interested the continued lies that Bush is able to speak you only need to have a short look.

G8 SUMMIT: As Bloggers Will See It
–The RedPepper is asking people to look to the Bloggers for news on the G8. I would sencond that with a caution that they check more than one blogger site to see if the story is real. Bloggers might be able to get the real story but it should not fool people into believing that real media reform is needed.

BBC NEWS | Business | Storm costs ‘could rise by 66%’
–The cost of storms because of global warming is going to sky-rocket if we do not start doing something about our effects on the plantet.

Education: More university science courses likely to close
–What is this?!? Science, Math, and Physics are “19th Century” disciplines? If this is the mind set of neo-liberals in power then there is going to be some real problems in the future.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | CIA blunder on al-Jazeera ‘terror messages’
–So much for the CIA being a great terror finder. Don’t you feel safe?

The intention of this collection is to uncover a dark period in the history of the Greek labour movement, in which the Trotskyists provided the greatest tally of victims of Stalinist murder and repression outside the borders of the Soviet Union itself. The various articles provide only a glimpse of the KKE’s (Greek Communist Party) rotten history of class compromise and outright betrayal of the working class, which continues unabated to the present day.

This article was published in Revolutionary History magazine in the summer of 1988. It deals with the Stalinist betrayal of the Spanish revolution of 1936 and the consequent implementation of Franco’s fascist rule. Included at the bottom of the page is a brief critique of the article by the Spartacists.

Indymedia UK - PRESS RELEASE : Bristol Indymedia Server Threated.
–The “authorities” have taken Indymedia’s servers AGAIN! Support is coming in from across the web for Indymeia including from Slashdot and NUJ.

New York teenager deported to Bangladesh FBI held girl as “suicide bomber” suspect
–If you are looking for cases that spell out how dangerous and wrong it is to do racial profiling then have a read of this article. A 16 year-old has been deported to a country they she does not know just because she “looks” like a suicide bomber. We must all react to these injustices.

ZNet |Science | Ozone, Heal Thyself, US declares
–The great strategy coming from the US Administration. The world must heal itself because it would cost too much to try to do anything about it.