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No third way for Chavez

  • Paul Mason
  • 15 May 06, 05:11 PM

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President Chavez has promised to speak for only 15 minutes. He is giving a eulogy to the various Latin American freedom fighters of the Bolivar era, and to the enlightenment tradition of the House of Commons going back to William Pitt. "We are all in danger...capitalism has degenerated into an empire," he says. The Labour Campaign Group of MPs is here in force, though nobody has yet proposed running Chavez as a stalking horse in the leadership row.
"There is no time to lose" he says, "tomorrow the White House could give the order to attack Iran, or Venezuela...even the UK if sentiment grows vs Bush."
"I don鈥檛 want to meddle in Labour Party but the Third way is impossible, capitalism cannot be given a human face鈥 (Huge round of applause...)

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  • 1.
  • At 11:09 PM on 15 May 2006,
  • Bill Nihey wrote:

On tonight's NEWSNIGHT: Would someone please talk to your newsnight business corr about how to be interviewed on screen. Shuffling around nervously, giggling like an idiot, apparently struggling to think on his feet (or backside) ... I was stressed out watching the performance.

  • 2.
  • At 02:05 PM on 04 Jun 2006,
  • michael wrote:

the world has a new hero chavez for the people.scrutinize his detracters ,with the history of bush,blair,putin or their countries is chavez really a monster.

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