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Headlines from GLW #693, 6 December 2006:


Chavez victory: Venezuelans vote for revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 December 2006
VENEZUELA: “The atmosphere in the early evening has been a big celebration already, with fireworks and loud music in the city streets, and a large crowd already gathering near Miraflores Palace”, according to Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, correspondents for Green Left Weekly’s Venezuela bureau who were in Caracas on the day of the December 3 presidential election. »

Chavez wins with over 60%
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 December 2006

Marta Harnecker: Venezuela’s experiment in popular power
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 November 2006
VENEZUELA: Marta Harnecker is the Chilean-born author of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2005) and other books dealing with revolution and Latin America. She has been an active participant in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and an adviser to that country’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez. »

Hundreds of thousands mobilise against Work Choices
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 December 2006
Across Australia on November 30, hundreds of thousands of workers answered the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ call to protest against Work Choices. The ACTU estimated that around 270,000 people took part, the majority hooked up to the Sky Channel broadcasts from the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). »

Workers mobilise for their rights
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 2 December 2006
Despite generally being smaller in number compared to last year’s November anti-Work Choices protests, many of the November 30 city-wide rallies were as lively. »

AWB and Iraq: How Howard waged a war for corporate profit
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 December 2006
IRAQ: As was widely expected, the year-long Cole inquiry, while finding that Australian monopoly wheat exporter AWB Ltd deliberately concealed from the UN $290 million in bribes it paid to Iraq in 2000-03 to secure wheat contracts, cleared PM John Howard and his ministers of any wrongdoing. »

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Michael Moore: 'Cut and run — the only brave thing to do'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 December 2006
Sunday, November 26th, 2006 Friends, Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II. »

New Labour's war on the Kurds
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 December 2006
Early morning on September 5 security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook immigration detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take 32 Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the 32 were taken to RAF Brize Norton airforce base. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. »

Venezuela's election a means of 'mandating' revoluion
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 November 2006
Marta Harnecker, a Chilean-born author, intellectual and participant in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy about the significance of Venezuela’s December 3 elections, in which socialist incumbent Hugo Chavez faces right-wing, US-backed candidate Manuel Rosales. »

Killed in a hail of NYPD bullets
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 December 2006
New York City police pumped 50 bullets into a car carrying three unarmed African-American men in the early morning hours of November 25, killing one man on his wedding day. »

Defend Venezuela's revolution!
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 December 2006
The outcome of the December 3 presidential election was a resounding endorsement of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution, and a rebuff of Washington and the right-wing opposition. Now, Venezuelans face the threat of violent attempts to destabilise the country by the US and the opposition. Chavez’s government has already had to defeat a military coup and massive economic sabotage. »

A sportswriter at the barricades
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 December 2006
While turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has been in the headlines for weeks, little media coverage has noted that at its centre is a crusading newspaper, Noticias (The News). The daily’s sportswriter is now a leading spokesperson for the teachers, doctors, nurses, newspaper workers and others who have joined together to call for greater democracy, and a new direction for the state’s economy. David Bacon interviewed Noticias’s Jaime Medina in northern Mexico, where the writer was seeking support from the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras. »

Six hangings at Baxter detention centre
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 15 December 2006

Also in #693:


read »International News

  • A sportswriter at the barricades
  • Australia helps block UN declaratio...
  • AWB and Iraq: How Howard waged a wa...
  • Balochistan's history of insurgency...
  • Chavez victory: Venezuelans vote fo...
  • Chavez wins with over 60%
  • Defend Venezuela's revolution!
  • Israel tightens the noose: 'suffer ...
  • Killed in a hail of NYPD bullets
  • Leftist candidate wins Ecuador elec...
  • Love and solidarity in the pouring ...
  • Marta Harnecker: Venezuela’s expe...
  • Michael Moore: 'Cut and run — the...
  • Millions demand Siniora's resignati...
  • New Labour's war on the Kurds
  • Nicaraguans’ vote for Ortega s...
  • The mid-term elections and Iraq war...
  • US janitors' victory
  • Venezuela's election a means of 'ma...
  • Why Washington wants regime change ...
  • Women's right activists arrested

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • A different planet from the one we ...
  • Australia isolated at Nairobi clima...
  • Bring David Hicks home!
  • Carbon trading: an essential tool i...
  • Drive for nukes ignores vast geothe...
  • Green Left Fighting Fund: We have t...
  • Gurindji leader dies
  • Hundreds of thousands mobilise agai...
  • Kyoto's (not so) Clean Development ...
  • NSW firefighters prepare for Work C...
  • Queers building 'AIDS care not warf...
  • Reproductive rights and women's hea...
  • Saving the planet needs the support...
  • Socialist Alliance - looking toward...
  • Stern avoids rocking the foundation...
  • Still fighting for refugees' rights...
  • Transgender hate crimes remembered
  • UNSW redundancies
  • Women's services bear brunt of neol...
  • Letters: Letters to the Edit...
  • Resistance!: Change the syst...
  • Resistance!: Chavez not Bush...
  • Resistance!: Racism helps th...
  • Resistance!: Stop Bush!
  • Case for Socialism: Capitali...
  • Case for Socialism: Their va...

    • read »General

  • Can you lend us your ute?
  • Corrections
  • Final issue of GLW for the...

    • read »Australian News

  • Ajax Fasteners workers hold sit-in
  • Court confirms workers' right to pr...
  • Greens gain in Victorian elections
  • Iraqi refugee executed on return
  • Library backs down on anti-gay DVD
  • N30: Slavery on the Gold Coast
  • Second legal victory against Godrey...
  • Six hangings at Baxter detention ce...
  • UWS board backs down
  • Workers mobilise for their rights
  • Brief: Aboriginal icons dest...
  • Brief: Garret coal comments ...
  • Brief: West Papua independen...
  • Brief: West Papuan flag rais...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: A snapshot of imperi...
  • Review: Dubious alliances in...
  • Review: Getting the people t...
  • Review: Lebanon (2006)
  • Review: Mao's rise
  • Andorra at Leichhardt peace festiva...
  • On the Box
  • Soldier's Joy

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