In an illegal incursion into Ecuador on 1 March, Colombian troops murdered 17 combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), including Comandante Raúl Reyes, a long-time military commander and member of the FARC-EP’s Secretariat. Among the other victims was the well-known revolutionary song-writer Julian Conrado.

 From Tribuna Popular, Caracas

Secretary General of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) Oscar Figuera, paraphrasing Che Guevara, said that “from a defeat more can be learned than from victories.” During his weekly press conference on Dec. 3, Figuera gave a preliminary analysis of the results of the Dec. 2 referendum on Constitutional reform proposed by the President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez Frias.

(If you’re wondering why the anniversary of the October Revolution is in November, it’s because at the time of the revolution, Russia was using the Julian Calendar, according to which the revolution occurred on October 24-25. When, in 1918, the Soviet Union switched over to the Gregorian Calendar, the date of the October Revolution became November 6-7.)

Thousands of Afghans, and dozens of Canadians and other NATO troops, are dying in this vicious cycle of killing. The aid projects which are supposed to justify the occupation are a total fiasco. All that has been accomplished in six years is to replace one group of reactionary warlords with a different group of “pro-Western” warlords.

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George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, and Felipe Calderon meet Aug. 20-21 for the third annual summit of North American leaders. But their real business has been taking place behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the 450 million inhabitants of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

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Statement from the Communist Party of Canada, June 1, 2007

We urge the labour and democratic movements to give all-out support for June 29 actions being organized by Aboriginal groups across the country, from rallies and marches to direct actions.