* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article –about the tactic and strategy of “Revolutionary Venezuelan” Ethnocide- describes the events.

States are due to sign a UN protocol on Sept.24,2009, which by its exclusion of core minimum obligations, will allow States to systematically discriminate against the poor. Also it is very likely it will create a far more dependent people unable to help themselves. Many States are already following such policies.

Comunicazione riguardo doc blu color e eporaziione irak cia-bush con arco parlamentare e varie associazioni

At last! An answer to Neo Liberalism. Bottom-up rights are those rights left out by UN human rights instruments considered incompatible with neo liberalism and globalization. The discontented need to struggle for these rights, which entail an ethical globalization, to have them included domestically and internationally and eliminate social exclusion.

Is there a country in Europe where all this is possible in one year?

Welcome to the world of 'il padrino' Silvio Berlusconi.
Divide and rule and above all distract...
This man and his organization are interested in Europe and will be part of the biggest coalition(EPP) in the European parliament.

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have taken to the streets on May Day to protest against their government's handling of the financial crisis.

* Soon El Libertario #56 will be available in the street and on the Internet (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario). El Libertario is the voice of free ideas and independent social movements in Venezuela and Latin America. As a preview of its usual combative, irreverent and uncompromising position with regard to authoritarian power and oppression, here's the editorial:

On February 8, Romanian handball player Marian Cozma was stabbed to death in an attack outside a nightclub in the town of Veszprem. At the memorial for Cozma there were cries of "death to Gypsies”. The incident was followed by numerous anti-Roma demonstrations across Hungary.

Following the murder, journalist Zsolt Bayer wrote in the daily Magyar Hirlap about “members of the Gypsy community who have given up on coexistence and humanity” and described Roma criminals as “not human beings, but animals”.

* A translation of a March 2008 interview conducted by the French anarchist Charles Reeve with two members of the El Libertario group www.nodo50.org/ellibertario in Caracas, the nation’s capital, which offers some stark insights into the reality of the situation.

* The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country.