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Masses revolt against starvation conditions

Mass disappointment underlines need for workers’ party with fighting programme

Scandal of long waiting lists causing unnecessary deaths

Workers demand higher wages to off set rising energy and food prices.

“One of the 20th century’s biggest killers and greatest thieves”

State and society in crisis

On 2 december 2007, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, unfortunately suffered his first electoral defeat since winning power in 1998.

Sixty arrested and held in police cells