International
Coops and the global financial crisis
April 24, 2009Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch. The ILO is the International Labor Organization, created...
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WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba
April 24, 2009Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...
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Afghan war vet tells Congress rethink sending troops there
April 24, 2009WASHINGTON -- Afghan war veteran and retired Marine Corporal Rick Reyes testified before U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on his opposition on the war in Afghanistan. Reyes served as part of the first deployment to...
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What Bolivian democracy looks like
April 24, 2009Noam Chomsky recently praised Bolivia as “probably the most democratic country in the world.” (Democracy Now, April 13.) “Huge, popular, mass organizations of the most repressed population in the hemisphere [have] entered the political arena [and]...
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Communist parties of China and Japan have theoretical exchange
April 24, 2009(Akahata is published by the Communist Party of Japan) A theoretical exchange meeting between Fuwa Tetsuzo, director of the Japanese Communist Party’s Social Sciences Institute and member of the JCP Standing Executive Committee, and the Communist...
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