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Headlines from GLW #700, 28 February 2007:


Green Left Weekly is celebrating its 700th issue!
GENERAL, 24 February 2007

Iraq: Troops out now!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 February 2007
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has never been popular. With more than 650,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, having been killed since the March 2003 US-British-Australian invasion, it is not surprising that three quarters of Iraqis want the US and other foreign troops out, with 61% supporting armed attacks on US troops. The war is also opposed by a majority in the West, including those countries that are involved in the US-led occupation. »

Police attempt to silence Cheney protesters
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 23 February 2007

David Hicks and `anti-terror' laws
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 February 2007
Coalition leaders have had a rush of blood to the head over David Hicks. After five years of inaction, PM John Howard and foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer are trumpeting what a hard line they are taking with the George Bush administration to get Hicks back to Australia — after he is found guilty at a military commission of course! »

Marxism and the Venezuelan revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 February 2007
VENEZUELA: “Today a new epoch begins”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in his victory speech on December 3, having won the presidential election with the highest vote in Venezuelan history on a platform of deepening the struggle to build socialism. “That new era is the new socialist democracy. That era is the new socialist society.” »

West Papua - calling it a betrayal would be too generous
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 February 2007

Philippines: Death squads escalate their dirty work
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 February 2007
PHILIPPINES: Many Australians would assume that death squads, disappearances, harassment by the military, violent dispersal of demonstrations and political prisoners were features of the Philippines that vanished when Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship was overthrown in 1986. »

Australia's racist past and present
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 February 2007
The nationalist rejoicing and fervour displayed on January 26 each year celebrates the 1788 colonial invasion of Australia. However, this year the jingoism was broken by the Palm Island victory against the racist cops of Queensland. This resulted from the combined mass actions of the Palm Islanders themselves (including physical struggle in the immediate wake of the murder of Mulrunji Doomadgee), a similar grassroots response by the Aboriginal community at Aurukun against racist cop violence, and the urban solidarity campaigns centred in Brisbane. »

From GLW paper edition #700 - 28 February 2007. Subscribe now.