Ushering in the coming elections for governors and mayors on November 23, 2008, the narrow streets of the Andean university town, Mérida, have become hot, belligerent and sanguinary again. Is this the ominous prelude to a bloody hot summer? Last week, student and police blood have already marked the coming CIA death trail of emerging guarimbas, of violent paramilitary onslaughts against the democratic government of President Hugo Chávez Frías. These student riots, which tend to spread nationally, have already claimed their first victim: a PSUV Bolivarian student, Douglas Rojas Jiménez, shot brain dead on the streets of Mérida. To bury the assassinated student today big marches are planned. More disturbances are expected for this week.

Unfortunately our world in presently in the grasp of the insane bankers and corporations. For they never tell the truth and are on an insane mission of their own, and they need to continually deceive us so that they will not have to look at themselves and can continue on their delusional path.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

- More than 100 book, distributor, zine and group tables from Montreal, Quebec, North America and beyond (on May 17 only)

- Introductory Workshops to Anarchism (May 17), including: "Demanding the Impossible: Sharing Visions of Anarchism" (with the views of thirty local anarchists) and "An Introduction to Anarchism and its Aspirations"

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, presents an informed opinion about the rape tape that has excited much controversy since appearing or youtube.

For a massive, public reinvestment in education

For a reinvestment, but not any old way !

We will converge on the Capital of Quebec, departure at Laval University.
Montreal: Free transport to and back.

Info here >>

Mr. Arthur Topham, publisher of The Radical Press in Canada, has become the latest free speech target for the Israel Lobby. Is North America destined to go the way of Western Europe by designating and prosecuting "thought crime"?

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Watch out on the runaway corruption inside China! Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption is concerned? What is the next if this corruption goes deeper? Surpring findings in new reports.

Tomorrow, Nov. 30th 2007, pupils in the whole country again will protest against the 'dumbing down' via their schools: they want 'quality' in their education. Not the government proscribed 'quantity' of 1040 school hours. The present school system - according to an education professor - is dangerous.

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, presents a satiric day-after article describing the situation we will face if the upcoming nuclear exercises, TOPOFF and Vigilant Shield, go live, and result in an actual nuclear attack.

After months of infighting that has paralyzed the Canadian Federation of Students-Quebec, the lobby group is awaiting a court decision to defreeze its assets and let it back into its de Maisonneuve office.

Swastikas at Hunter Airfield, and a Rabbi on the Run

The End of Sovereignty and Democracy Tolls for Upstate New York, Northern New England, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, and, Soon, for Boston and NYC Too

To all 'education activists' that want to join us at the G8 protests!

University of Helsinki authorities to investigate for irregularities and slander in hiring process at Swedish School of Social Sciences. International scholar calls for major overhaul to "amateurish" hiring practises.