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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. The campaign is rooted in the struggle for socialism. We believe a better world is possible and together we can make it happen.

Since September 3rd, 2007, Henry Okah, a respected youth leader and so called “silent player” in the Niger Delta struggle was arrested in Angola on his way back to Nigeria from South Africa. The Angolan government, likely at the behest of the Nigerian government and the multi-national oil companies operating in Nigeria, detained Mr. Okah and his fellow traveler (Capt. Edward Atatah), under dubious pretexts. These included the possession of “incriminating literature”, gunrunning and the sponsoring of a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. Due to the absurdity of the manufactured cases, the charges were eventually thrown out of Angolan court.

Past Reporting on MEND: Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Declares War

New evidence of corruption has emerged in federal probes of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's connections with companies awarded lucrative contracts related to New Orleans public housing projects slated for demolition.

Greed is defined as an excessive or uncontrolled desire for or pursuit of money, wealth, food, or other possessions especially when this denies the same goods to others. It is reprehensible acquisitiveness, an insatiable longing for power, and supremacy in order to advance individual interests at the cost of other's well being.

At noon last Saturday, January 26th, at least a hundred Philadelphians marched through Center City, from 5th and Market to the Israeli Consulate at 15th and Locust, urging Israel to lift its blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip and to allow a waiting convoy of much-needed relief supplies into the territory. The march, organized by a coalition of local Jewish and secular Israel/Palestine peace and justice organizations, highlighted the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where most Gazans have lived without clean water, adequate food, fuel, and medical supplies, and electricity for the past seven months. "We've got more up our sleeves for this spring" said Candace Saunders of Philly SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax Aid to Israel Now), "We're proud to unveil sixty days of action from March 16th to May 15th, to remember the sixtieth anniversary of resistance to the occupation of Palestine.”

In the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, 40 percent of the people live in poverty. Conditions there have sparked a large radical movement, heavily repressed by the government.