More May Day Links

For more links see my May Day News<br />
<a href="http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-day-headlines.html">http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-day-headlines.html</a><br />
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and for an excellent article by Leo Panitch on May Day versus Labour Day see:<br />
<a href="http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=7b13dbfef02de58a46fea7ebd5e0435a&rXn=1&">http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=7b13dbfef02de58a46fea7ebd5e0435a&rXn=1&</a>;

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<a href="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=qw1146549781939B256">http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=qw1146549781939B256</a><br />
President Evo Morales ordered the military to occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields on Monday after nationalising the industry and threatening to expel foreign companies that do not recognise state control.<br />
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Morales had long pledged to nationalise the sector but said repeatedly he would not expropriate companies' assets.<br />
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This means the state will own and sell these resources, relegating foreign companies to operators. Previously, Bolivian law said the state no longer owned the gas once companies extracted it from underground.<br />
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Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia said the government's energy-related revenue will jump to $780-million next year, expanding nearly sixfold from 2002.<br />
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<p>---<br>RickW