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Time to take a stand for refugees
EDITORIAL, 18 November 2009
EDITORIAL: On November 15, Indonesian authorities said they had shot and wounded two Afghan refugees they said were trying to escape after their boat was intercepted three days earlier. »

Queensland abortion arrests: defend the right to choose
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
Many Queenslanders assume abortion is legal, since 14,000 terminations occur every year in the state. »

John Pilger’s 2009 Sydney Peace Award speech: Breaking the Australian silence
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
The following speech by renowned journalist and film-maker John Pilger was delivered on November 5 as he accepted the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. To read more of John Pilger's work, visit www.johnpilger.com »


Unionists speak out for refugees
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
On November 6, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the mining division of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) announced they would jointly donate $10,000 to the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking. »

Gov't report condemns NT intervention
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
The Northern Territory Emergency Response, a “tough love” government intervention into remote NT Aboriginal communities, has been renamed by the federal ALP government. Its official name is now "Closing the Gap NT". »

Clive Hamilton: ‘We can make Higgins a turning-point in Australian politics’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
Well known author and environmentalist Clive Hamilton recently announced he will stand for the Australian Greens in the December 5 by-election for the seat of Higgins in Melbourne. »

Regional left groups: ‘Support Tamil refugees’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 November 2009
The article below is slightly abridged from a joint statement released on November 5 by the Socialist Alliance (Australia); the Socialist Party (Australia); the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM); the Network of the Oppressed People (JERIT — Malaysia); CWI Malaysia; the Confederation Congress of Indonesian Union Alliance (KASBI); the Working Peoples Association (PRP — Indonesia); the National Liberation Party of Unity (PAPERNAS — Indonesia); the Indonesian National Front for Labor Struggle (FNPBI); Socialist Alternative (Australia); Socialist Worker New Zealand; Partido Lakas ng Masa, Philippines; Transform Asia; Labour Party Pakistan; Resistance (Australia); Militan-Indonesia; H. Mahadevan, Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau of World Federation of Trade Unions; Solidarity (Australia); Socialist Appeal (New Zealand: and Partido ng Manggagawa Philippines To add your organisation’s name, email . »

Green Left Weekly fighting fund: Don’t let Rudd play the race card
GENERAL, 18 November 2009

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United States: The making of the Fort Hood tragedy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 November 2009
People across the world were shocked at the news that a US Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage on November 5 at Fort Hood army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring dozens. »

Honduras: ‘The elections are fraudulent’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 November 2009
“On November 29, we are not going to have time to vote”, Juan Barahona, a leader of the National Resistance Front Against the Coup on Honduras (FNRG) told the media in front of the Honduran Congress on November 12, Rightsaction.org said that day. »

Interview: The fight for intersex rights
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 November 2009
Earlier this year, South African track athlete Caster Semenya was vilified in the international media for allegedly having both male and female biological characteristics. People with such characteristics are known as “intersex”. Green Left Weekly’s Farida Iqbal spoke to Gina Wilson from the Organisation Intersex International (OII) about Semenya and intersex politics. »

Venezuela: Chavez denounces war threat as unions organise
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 November 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on November 8 that his country is prepared to defend itself against a possible act of aggression from Colombia or the United States. »

Climate logic of the madhouse
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 18 November 2009
As the November 2-6 international climate change talks in Barcelona ended in poorly-concealed acrimony and weary expressions of “official optimism”, a funny thing happened in mainstream Australian media. »

Iraq: Government pushes oil privatisation
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 November 2009
Before and after the invasion of Iraq, the war’s goal of privatising Iraq’s oil to the benefit of Western oil corporations was highlighted not just by the war’s opponents, but also by many of its supporters. »

Sri Lanka: Australian complicity in genocide
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 November 2009
National Party leader Senator Barnaby Joyce has sought political capital by promoting an even harder line than the Rudd government on Tamil refugees. “Send the Oceanic Viking to Colombo and you will have made a strong statement”, Joyce told the Nine Network on November 8 about the 78 Tamil people refusing to leave the Australian custom ship to be imprisoned in Indonesia’s Tanjung Pinang Detention Centre. »

Sri Lanka: The campaign for justice for political prisoners
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 November 2009
Thirty years ago, the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was enacted in the Sri Lankan parliament. It was meant to be merely a “temporary” provision, to stamp out the encroaching terrorist menace. »

Don’t forget the men of Guantanamo
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 November 2009
When United States President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January to close down the military-run prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, a collective sigh of relief spread across the world. »

UN vote: Australia backs Israeli war crimes
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 November 2009

ACT makes civil unions legal
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 November 2009

Traveston Dam project blocked by federal government
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 November 2009

El Salvador: Appeal for donations for victims of floods and mudslides
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 November 2009

In This Issue:


read »International News

  • Britain: Travel company says carbon...
  • Chris Harman: 1942-2009
  • Don’t forget the men of Guantanam...
  • El Salvador: Appeal for donations f...
  • El Salvador: Twenty years since rad...
  • Germany: Twenty years since the fal...
  • Gov’t takes over coffee firms
  • Honduras: ‘The elections are frau...
  • Iraq: Government pushes oil privati...
  • Palestine: Abbas to not stand again...
  • Regional left groups: ‘Support Ta...
  • Sri Lanka: Australian complicity in...
  • Sri Lanka: The campaign for justice...
  • UN vote: Australia backs Israeli wa...
  • United States: The making of the Fo...
  • United States: Why Muhammad’s exe...
  • Venezuela: Chavez denounces war thr...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Abuse of guest workers is the real ...
  • Clive Hamilton: ‘We can make Higg...
  • Gov't report condemns NT interventi...
  • Interview: The fight for intersex r...
  • John Pilger’s 2009 Sydney Peace A...
  • Queensland abortion arrests: defend...
  • Unionists speak out for refugees
  • When did Australia disappear?
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Artists and act...
  • Editorial: Time to take a st...
  • Resistance!: Uni colleges: ...
  • Our Common Cause: Climate lo...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly fighting...
  • We kid you not

    • read »Australian News

  • ACT makes civil unions legal
  • Community services workers march fo...
  • Hundreds attend Sri Lankan rights m...
  • Protests demand maternity care choi...
  • Sex workers demand their rights
  • Skills minister fails to convince s...
  • TAFE teachers vote for action
  • Traveston Dam project blocked by fe...
  • Brief: ‘No more coal power...
  • Brief: ‘Welcome refugees...
  • Brief: Hundreds protest to s...
  • Brief: Queenslanders ‘spit...
  • Brief: Remembrance Day no wa...
  • Brief: Train stations lose s...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Finding Engels?
  • Review: The SIEVX remembered...
  • Review: Two centuries of tro...
  • On the box
  • War IS The Answer!


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