Headlines from GLW #704, 28 March 2007:

Why big business wants nuclear power

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 March 2007

Late February three wealthy business leaders with close Liberal Party connections — Robert de Crespigny, Ron Walker and Hugh Morgan — announced the formation of Australian Nuclear Energy to develop nuclear power generation. Prime Minister John Howard praised the initiative as “a great idea”. »

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Afghanistan: Why Australia should get out

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 March 2007

On March 21, in a speech to mark the fourth anniversary of Australian troops being dispatched to Iraq as part of an illegal US invasion responsible for the deaths of more than half a million Iraqis, Prime Minister John Howard conceded that despite the “surge” in the occupiers’ troop numbers “success is by no means assured”. »

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Venezuela: Chavez pushes forward with united party

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 March 2007

VENEZUELA: On his Alo Presidente radio program on March 5, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez reiterated his call for the creation of a united party of all those who support the Bolivarian revolution that his government is leading — a process that is struggling to transform Venezuela to overcome underdevelopment and poverty. »

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Tasmania pulp mill outrage

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 23 March 2007

On March 22, some 1500 protesters on Parliament Lawns denounced Tasmanian Labor Premier Paul Lennon’s push to fast-track the building of a $1.5 billion pulp mill in Bell Bay, in northern Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. »

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Unions vow to defy repression in Zimbabwe

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 March 2007

ZIMBABWE: The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has declared it will go ahead with an April 3-4 “stay away” by workers despite the wave of repression suffered by opponents of President Robert Mugabe’s regime and authorities’ threats to crush the ZCTU strike. Already ZCTU members have been arrested, their offices raided and material relating to the stay away confiscated. »

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Palestine: Occupation and resistance

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 28 March 2007

PALESTINE: Hanan Aruri, a Palestinian woman from Ramallah, became involved in the fight against the Israeli occupation as a teenager in the 1987 intifada. Today she is an activist in the international campaign to boycott Israel, and is also involved in campaigns for women’s rights. She is a guest at the Marxism Today conference, organised by Socialist Alternative, being held in Melbourne from March 30-April 1. Aruri spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Emma Clancy about the current dynamics in Palestinian politics and the struggle against the Israeli occupation. [This interview will be published in GLW #705.] »

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US 'missile defence': Be very, very afraid

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 March 2007

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Latin America: 'Bush, get out!'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 March 2007

Shortly before leaving to inspect what was once viewed as the US’s backyard, US President George Bush told a March 5 event organised by the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, “I want to talk about [an] important priority for our country, and that is helping our neighbours to the south of us build a better and productive life”. Explaining that he was embarking on a trip to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, Bush said: “These are countries that are part of a region that has made great strides toward freedom and prosperity. They’ve raised up new democracies, They’ve enhanced and undertaken fiscal policies that bring stability. »

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'Two, three, many Bolivarian revolutions!'

REVIEW, 24 March 2007

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund

GENERAL, 23 March 2007

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Eight in 10 Iraqis oppose occupation

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 March 2007

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Class struggle in the Zionist state

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 March 2007

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