Headlines from GLW #689, 8 November 2006:

'Market solutions' won't stop climate catastrophe

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 November 2006

“I’m just, I’m a little concerned with all this hysteria over this greenhouse gases and the environment, that the Liberal Party is not selling your message the way you sold it now to Leon, and that it’s not getting through to the average man in the street” — this is what “Emile”, an “unashamed supporter” of Prime Minister John Howard, had to say to the PM on November 2, during Leon Byner’s talkback show on Adelaide’s Radio 5AA. »

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Workers shut down Coca-Cola

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 4 November 2006

VENEZUELA: “We’re showing the world that no multinational company can just come here to humiliate Venezuelan employees”, Nixon Lopez, a Venezuelan workers’ leader, told BBC News on October 24. Lopez was referring to the actions of over 10,000 former employees at the Coca-Cola Femsa bottling company, the second-largest soft drink bottling company in the world. »

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Controversy over Venezuelan mine killings

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 4 November 2006

VENEZUELA: Six miners were killed by the Special Operations Unit of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (TO5) on September 22 in the remote jungle area of La Paragua, 200km south-east of Ciudud Bolivar in the eastern state of Bolivar. Fourteen soldiers landed their helicopter at the El Papelon de Turumban mine, destroyed the miners’ heavy machinery and shot them in the back, according to a report in the October 8 Ultimas Noticias. »

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What the people want: troops out of Iraq!

EDITORIAL, 4 November 2006

EDITORIAL: As of November 2, 2825 US military personnel and 232 other allied foreign troops had died in Iraq since the country was invaded on March 20, 2003, by US, British and Australian forces. »

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Other Headlines

Also in #689:

read »International News

A 'rebirth of liberalism'?

Campaign to oust president stalls

Congo massacre: Australian mining c...

Controversy over Venezuelan mine ki...

From England to the 'war on terror'...

Indigenous America: 'A new era has ...

Israel admits using white phosphoru...

Letter in support of the people of ...

Open racist invited into Olmert cab...

Strike forces US to end Sadr City s...

Thousands protest Afghan war

US leads ‘adventurist' naval exer...

Vietnam War veterans fight Agent Or...

Weeks of teachers’ strikes end...

Workers shut down Coca-Cola

read »Comment & Analysis

$76,500 to make the Green Left figh...

'Market solutions' won't stop clima...

A Nobel loan shark?

A win for the refugee-rights campai...

Australia's Pacific intervention un...

Bring David Hicks home!

Deportees' fate shows there's no so...

Muslim youth: We must not let them ...

Muslim-bashing won't advance women'...

Not in our name

The illusory wage rise

Unionists share experiences, discus...

US tightening Cuba blockade

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Stop Bono befor...

Editorial: What the people w...

Case for Socialism: Make pub...

read »Australian News

Abortion reform needed for women's ...

Community solidarity targets Alcoa

Feltex blackmails workers to sign A...

Guest workers defiant

Help get Green Left Weekly around o...

Latrobe cuts student representation...

Locked out Yallourn workers need so...

Mori calls for Hicks release

Protest Work Choices: All out on No...

Protests will mark Mulrunji anniver...

Regional community fights for healt...

Socialist Alliance prepares for new...

Tell Howard to FUNK off

Tens of thousands rally for action ...

Terry Hicks: They want my son found...

UNSW mail room work to be outsource...

Brief: 600,000 Iraqis dead -...

Brief: Charges dismissed

Brief: Forum discusses Israe...

Brief: Forum discusses truck...

Brief: Greens oppose stun gu...

Brief: Hunger strike marks r...

Brief: Latin America solidar...

Brief: Police block march

Brief: Protest held against ...

Brief: Sydney march against ...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: But who is behind go...

Review: Hope for a barren wo...

Review: James Hardie's dusty...

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