3 authors, George Zhibin Gu, Chalmers, Johnson, and Andre Gunder Frank talk about current global issues.

Le 13 février 1996 s’ouvrait un tout nouveau chapitre dans l’histoire du Népal : c’est en effet ce jour-là que le Parti communiste du Népal (maoïste) a choisi pour prendre la tête des masses opprimées et mener une série d’assauts audacieux, simultanément à travers tout le pays.

General Yuri Baluyevsky, the chief of Russia's general staff, warned the United States against attacking Iran. "A military scenario can't be ruled out," Baluyevsky was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies."

On 13 February 1996, a whole new chapter in the history of Nepal was begun, when the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) led the masses of the downtrodden in Nepal in daring simultaneous assaults throughout the country. Although the scale of the initial actions was small and the People’s War was begun with only a few weapons, from the outset the goal was mighty—to carry out a new democratic and socialist revolution throughout the country as part of the international proletariat’s historic mission of sweeping imperialism, reaction and indeed all traces of class exploitation from the Earth.

13 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The boycott and general strike against the Nepal monarchy’s attempt to hold municipal elections 8 February was a big success – so much so that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) called off the remaining four days of the eight-day bandh to avoid unnecessary hardship to the population. During this period, the People’s Liberation Army inflicted serious losses on the royal army in battles in widely separated regions.

Bush’s poodle, Tony Blair, has been Bush’s main ally in the illegal occupation of Iraq and the ongoing war of terror. In Parliament this week, Blair admonished Chavez that he should “respect the rules of the international community

US military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees engaged in hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay. Some US victims were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement.