12th August - Venezuelan Night, 7.30pm in MONO

Free download of the film "Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War", a documentary about the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and its links to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. Free screening also on Wednesday, 18th if august in the Forest Cafe, Arts and Events Space in Edinburgh.

When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war.

It sound like a bad joke... but it is true... a forest fire in the name of the Olympic Games (!)

A conversation on how Venezuelan anarchists view the Chavez crisis with Rafa, a libertarian comrade of the CRA (Commission of Anarchist Relationships) of Venezuela on "Canarias Libertaria" on 10/12/02. More up to date texts of Venezuelan anarchists in http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario - Spanish http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario/seccioningles.htm - English

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Edinburgh Demo in support of The Bolivarian Revolution.

150 Workers Died Building the Facilities Olympic Sized Horror in Greece By DAVE ZIRIN (US magazine counterpunch)