The Second Latin American Meeting of Worker-Recovered Factories took place on June 25-27. Over two hundred workers gathered at the National Library in Caracas to discuss perspectives for the occupied factories movement internationally.
Not only in the streets of Honduras, all over the world
people have staged rallies in solidarity with the struggle of the Honduras
people. Here in Montreal, two solidarity rallies have been organized
by Latin America solidarity groups whereby Hands Off Venezuela/Société
Bolivarian du Quebéc supported and joined.
With a military coup occurring in Honduras to oust president
Manuel Zeleya on Sunday, a protest was held on Monday afternoon, June
29, in front of the Honduran consulate in San Francisco. With less than 24 hours notice, we had an
attendance of approximately 150 people, many of them Honduran.
A
second lively picket against the coup in Honduras took place in London
on July 3rd. Members of the Latin American community, solidarity and
left wing activists gathered outside the embassy to demand the
reinstatement of president Zelaya. A letter was handed in to the
Minister Counsellor who refused to meet any of the protestors.
This is a report from the HOV delegation to the first all-European gathering of Venezuela solidarity organisations in Amsterdam with over 100 participants from different solidairty organisations around Europe. The HOV delegation consisted of comrades from Poland, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and
Portugal.
The Latin America Solidarity Network in Toronto is has organised a rally where they will demand that the Canadian government takes measures against the coup in Honduras.
We received this letter from a supporter of HOV in Iran. He expresses his support for the Bolivarian Revolution but criticizes Chavez's relations with the Islamic republic.
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