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Headlines from GLW #690, 15 November 2006:


Challenges for Venezuela's revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 November 2006
VENEZUELA: Michael Lebowitz is a director of the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM), a Caracas-based foundation for analysis and discussion of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution; professor emeritus of the department of economics at Simon Fraser University, Canada; and author of several books on Marxism and socialism, including his newly published Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century. He spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy about the unfolding revolution in Venezuela. »

Voters reject Bush's war
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 November 2006
UNITED STATES: Within hours of the November 7 mid-term US congressional elections, in which voters expressed their disaffection with the US-led war in Iraq by ousting a raft of Republican legislators, US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld fell on his sword, handing President George Bush his resignation. »

Palestine: Butchery in Beit Hanoun
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 November 2006
PALESTINE: In the deadliest single attack on Palestinians in four years, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed 19 civilians at Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on November 8. Seven homes were bombed in the early hours of the morning as the victims slept and, according to the Gaza-based United Nations Relief and Works Agency, more than 60 civilians were injured in the attack. »

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What would it take to make poverty history?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 November 2006
On November 18-19, the G20 meeting in Melbourne will bring together the finance ministers of the powerful G8 group of nations with those of Australia, the European Union and 10 of the largest Third World economies, along with the heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. »

Going underground in Bolivia
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 November 2006
Before we descended into the mine, our mini-bus (or micro) dropped us at the local “miner’s market” so we could buy sticks of dynamite, bags of coca leaves and a few 2-litre bottles of soft drink. These were gifts for some of the miners we were about to visit underground who still work the Cerro Rico — the famous mountain of silver that towers over the city of Potosi, located 4100 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes. »

ACTU congress focuses on federal election
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 11 November 2006
More than 600 delegates representing 2 million union members met for the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) congress on October 25-26. »

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  • Indictment rocks Taiwan's president...
  • Maoists to join Nepal's government
  • More than 1000 GIs sign anti-war pe...
  • New US plot against Venezuela alleg...
  • Nicaraguan voters defy US threats
  • Palestine: Butchery in Beit Hanoun
  • Socialist MSP jailed for anti-nuke ...
  • Successful campaign to keep radical...
  • The 'Battle of Oaxaca' intensifies
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  • ASIO steps up surveillance of activ...
  • Bracks fails to overturn Kennett le...
  • Climate change, drought and solutio...
  • Geelong construction workers commem...
  • Reject the `security' pact with Ind...
  • Summit fiddles while drought burns ...
  • What would it take to make poverty ...
  • Work Choices: community power defen...
  • Letters: Letters to the Edit...
  • Resistance!: NUS cops out on...
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  • Falling dominoes: Rumsfeld gone - B...
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  • Good showing for militants in Victo...
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  • McKay releases a 'stale doughnut'
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