While celebrations over Barack Obama聮s victory in the presidential elections dominated US streets, gay rights supporters rallied against the banning of same-sex marriage in California.
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The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle the day after the historic November 4 presidential election provided this image: a full page color photo of Barack Obama with the quote, 鈥淐hange has come to America鈥.
Despite Western media and politicians having largely ignored a decade of genocidal warfare that has cost 6 million lives, the recent upsurge in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has drawn not only media attention, but visits to the region by the British and French foreign ministers and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Machinists, represented by the Industrial Association of Machinists (IAM), at Boeing plants in the US voted on November 1 to end a 57-day strike and accept a new contract offer.
The article below has been translated by Federico Fuentes for 麻豆传媒 Weekly from the November edition of Latin America-wide publication America XXI, and is reprinted with permission.
People all over the world have waited for the end of the hated far-right-wing administration of US President George Bush and his Vice-President Dick Cheney.
However, what will an Obama presidency bring with it? US Socialist Worker held a round table with a range of activists and left-wing authors on this topic. Below are some heavily abridged excerpts of some contributions. All contributions, in full, can be found at .
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez released a statement congratulating US president-elect Barack Obama, declaring that, 鈥淲e are convinced that the time has come to establish new relations between our two countries and in our region, based on the principles of respect for sovereignty, equality and true co-operation鈥, according to a November 6 Ultimas Noticias article.
聯Now Or Never聰
By Tim Flannery
Quarterly Essay, Issue 31
Black Inc, 2008
$15.95
By Tim Flannery
Quarterly Essay, Issue 31
Black Inc, 2008
$15.95
Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
By Jeff Waters
ABC Books, 2008
246pages, $24.95
By Jeff Waters
ABC Books, 2008
246pages, $24.95
Globally, the campaign for serious action on climate change has been forced to confront the question of how to relate to the workforce in environmentally destructive industries.
The article below is abridged from a November 4 statement released by the Saharawi Journalists鈥 and Writers鈥 Union (UPES). For more information, visit .
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