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Headlines from GLW #692, 29 November 2006:


Scrap all of Howard's IR laws!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006
The Howard government’s anti-worker Work Choices laws have placed a powerful weapon in the hands of bosses, which they are using to drive down wages and eliminate hard-won conditions. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released on November 16 showed that average weekly earnings for full-time workers had fallen by 1.2% in real terms since Work Choices became law — an average loss of $13 a week. »

No to Howard's nuclear madness
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006
Below, Dr Jim Green, Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner, summarises the EnergyScience Coalition’s critique of Ziggy Switkowski’s Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review released on November 21. »

Venezuelan opposition's bogus poll plot
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 December 2006
VENEZUELA: Manuel Rosales faces almost certain defeat in Venezuela’s elections but he has told his supporters: “It is true, we are winning.” »

Eva Golinger: Venezuela shows 'People can take power and do great things'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 November 2006
VENEZUELA: Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American lawyer and author of The Chavez Code, which exposed US government involvement in a 2002 military coup that briefly overthrew Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s left-wing president, before he was reinstated by a popular uprising. She spoke to Green Left Weekly in late October. Golinger’s latest book is Bush vs Chavez: Washington’s War on Venezuela. (The first part of this interview appeared in GLW #691.) »

Tonga intervention slammed
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 November 2006
TONGA: Tonga’s pro-democracy movement has attacked the Australian and New Zealand governments for sending more than 150 soldiers and police to the Pacific nation, demanding the intervention end. The foreign forces have ostensibly been sent to help “restore law and order” in the aftermath of rioting sparked by Tonga’s monarch, King Siaosi Tupou V, announcing the closure of parliament for the year without implementing widely demanded democratic reforms. »

Obscuring the violence inherent in the system
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006
More than three thousand people had a somewhat surreal experience on November 18. They attended a rally, called by the Melbourne Stop the War Coalition and Stop G20, to oppose the genocide by poverty being promoted by the finance ministers’ meeting, and the warfare that makes the corporate plunder of the Third World possible. »

'If this was Croatia ...'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006
Drasko Boljevic was abducted and assaulted in Melbourne on November 19. Chief commissioner Christine Nixon confirmed on November 20 that a man had been mistakenly arrested, saying that he was released “because he wasn’t the person we thought he was”. Below, Eleonor Palacio, the partner of the man that was mistakenly arrested, describes what happened. It has been abridged from Melbourne Indymedia. »

From GLW paper edition #692 - 29 November 2006. Subscribe now.



Other Headlines


Memorials held for US socialist
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 November 2006

Venezuelan campesinos march for Chavez
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 November 2006
Up to 20,000 people mobilised for a four-hour march through Caracas on November 20. The demonstration, led by campesinos (peasants), was in support of the reelection of revolutionary Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the December 3 election. »

Balochistan: Pakistan's internal war
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 November 2006
Open warfare erupted between Baloch nationalists and the Pakistani military in December 2005 following decades of what the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) described as a “simmering insurgency”. An HRCP investigation conducted in December 2005 and January 2006 detailed ongoing summary executions, disappearances, torture and indiscriminate bombing and artillery attacks against the people of Pakistan’s south-western province of Balochistan. Baloch nationalist fighters, mainly from the Bugti and Marri tribes, continue to attack Pakistani military and paramilitary forces and sabotage gas pipelines and other infrastructure on a daily basis. »

Union recognition ballots: the US experience
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006
Among the proposals included in the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ industrial relations legislation policy, adopted at its October conference, were provisions for unions to be able to hold elections to win recognition in workplaces where the boss refuses to bargain with them. These ballots are aimed at addressing the lack of a mechanism whereby unions can make an employer negotiate a collective agreement for workers. Such ballots have been a feature of the US industrial relations system for over 70 years. »

Socialist unionists say: 'Make Howard history!'
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 24 November 2006
The following are comments by Socialist Alliance trade union activists on some of the key questions facing the union movement. »

Unjust laws that have to go
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 November 2006

Defend the G20 protesters!
RESISTANCE!, 24 November 2006
The following statement was issued on November 25 by the socialist youth organisation Resistance. »

Also in #692:


read »International News

  • Another labour leader assassinated
  • Balochistan: Pakistan's internal wa...
  • Civil war fears in Lebanon
  • Defending Venezuela's revolution
  • Eva Golinger: Venezuela shows 'Peop...
  • Iran: CIA finds no evidence of secr...
  • Memorials held for US socialist
  • Pentagon plans for long Iraq war
  • Socialist slams decision on meals b...
  • The 'battle against rubbish': how V...
  • Tonga intervention slammed
  • UN condemns Israeli Gaza offensive
  • Venezuelan campesinos march for Cha...
  • Venezuelan opposition's bogus poll ...
  • Venzuela's Mission Energy helps pow...
  • Welcome to Oaxaca! - a satirical ph...
  • Youth rally to support Chavez

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Can Labor govern for workers?
  • 'If this was Croatia ...'
  • Australia's Guantanamo?
  • Concern about Australian uranium mi...
  • French workers' example: 'If you do...
  • Maritime union campaigns for rights...
  • No safeguards for Australia's urani...
  • No to Howard's nuclear madness
  • Obscuring the violence inherent in ...
  • Organising against NT waste dump pl...
  • Scrap all of Howard's IR laws!
  • Should we join the Fair Employers C...
  • The way out of Iraq
  • Union recognition ballots: the US e...
  • Unjust laws that have to go
  • Water trading is drought profiteeri...
  • Letters: Letters to the Edit...
  • Resistance!: Australian Yout...
  • Resistance!: Defend the G20 ...
  • Our Common Cause: Socialist ...

    • read »Australian News

  • $250,000 Fighting Fund: The battle ...
  • Far north Queensland prepares for I...
  • Gippsland says 'no' to nuclear powe...
  • Iemma oversight on housing
  • Labor returned in Vic election
  • Minister overturns ETU agreement
  • Solidarity activists arrive in Vene...
  • Brief: Howard slashes worker...
  • Brief: Venezuela solidarity ...
  • Brief: Work Choices seminar ...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Comin' to America
  • Review: Don't mention the wa...
  • Review: Paris, Playboy and e...
  • On the Box
  • Tango for Arts at UWS


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