Headlines from GLW #705, 4 April 2007:

GLW is taking a short break

GENERAL, 9 April 2007

Green Left Weekly is taking a short break. The next issue will be dated April 18. »

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Hicks case exposes `war on terror' sham

EDITORIAL, 30 March 2007

EDITORIAL: After five years of solitary confinement in a small metal cell, David Hicks pleaded guilty on March 26 to one of the two charges brought against him by US military prosecutors on March 1, to finally get out of the notoriously brutal US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks’s case has revealed just what a sham the US-led “war on terror” really is. »

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Oppose Labor’s uranium push!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 March 2007

In the lead-up to the April 27-29 ALP national conference in Sydney, a number of federal Labor frontbenchers and state premiers have declared themselves in favour of scrapping the party’s “no new mines” policy in favour of an unrestricted expansion of uranium mining. This push — which ignores the views of a majority of Australians and the extreme dangers inherent in uranium mining and the nuclear cycle that it is part of — reflects booming prices for the mineral on the world market. However, a number of trade unions have opposed the policy change and vowed to fight it at the conference. »

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Corn gone wrong

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 March 2007

Greenpeace has revealed that an independent report into safety testing by genetic engineering giant Monsanto was ignored in the lead-up to a vote on whether the company’s new genetically engineered maize would be approved for consumption in the European Union. »

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Ecuador: Correa victorious in confrontation with right

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

ECUADOR: The two-month-old government of leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and the popular movements that back him have emerged triumphant in their first battle with the oligarchy and the traditional political parties that have historically dominated the country. Correa in his inaugural address in January called for an opening to a “new socialism of the 21st century” and declared that Ecuador has to end “the perverse system that has destroyed our democracy, our economy and our society”. »

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Subcomandante Marcos: Capitalism’s ‘new war of conquest’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

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Zimbabwe’s two dictatorships

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 March 2007

ZIMBABWE: Munya Gwisai, a member of the national coordinating committee of the International Socialist Organisation (Zimbabwe) as well as the deputy chairperson of the Zimbabwe Social Forum considers issues facing the democratic movement. He writes in a personal capacity. »

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Venezuela: Chavez launches campaign to form party

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

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Pakistan's democracy movement defies repression

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

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Bolivian gas nationalisation under threat

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

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Industrial relations: choice cuts

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 March 2007

On the grass outside an abattoir on the Western Plains of New South Wales, in the dark, cool air, a few workers are forming the late-night shift of a picket. Some journalists are hanging around, talking to them. It is less than a week after the federal government’s new industrial relations legislation, known as Work Choices, has taken effect. The men are outside the Cowra abattoir, not inside, because they have received termination notices. Twenty-nine have been sacked from their jobs for “operational reasons”. »

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The Moroccan magic formula for Western Sahara

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 March 2007

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Other Headlines

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4 April 2007

Also in #705:

read »International News

'A victory for democratic forces'

Beijing-anointed candidate challeng...

Bolivian gas nationalisation under ...

Ecuador: Correa victorious in confr...

Iraq: US tries to exploit oppositio...

Left party, historians under attack...

New stage in Venezuelan land reform...

Pakistan's democracy movement defie...

Palestine: Occupation and resistanc...

Socialist campaign mobilises in Eas...

Subcomandante Marcos: Capitalism’...

The Moroccan magic formula for West...

Theologian to Pope: 'No'

Unions versus globalisation in the ...

Venezuela: Chavez launches campaign...

Washington escalates financial war ...

West Bengal killings denounced

Zimbabwe’s two dictatorships

Brief: Fiji: unions vote to ...

Brief: Venezuela replaces 45...

read »Comment & Analysis

Corn gone wrong

David Hicks: victim of Howard’s �...

Industrial relations: choice cuts

Iran: Washington's next nuclear tar...

Oppose Labor’s uranium push!

Poverty report: more people 'droppi...

The 'war on terror' at home

`Free speech' not so free

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: A message from ...

Editorial: Hicks case expose...

Our Common Cause: Time’...

read »General

GL Fighting Fund: Democracy and the...

GLW is taking a short break

read »Australian News

A not so happy anniversary for work...

ASIO no-show on campus

CFMEU rank-and-file group meets in ...

Deportations met with hunger strike...

Labor, Coalition sink Greens' clima...

Lennon gets Gunns pulp mill bill pa...

Maritime workers take action on Esp...

Minerals council backs off website ...

QUT: Students and staff speak out a...

Students to protest pro-war 'think ...

Warning given about Christmas Islan...

Brief: 'Let the people decid...

Brief: Invite Chavez, not Bu...

Brief: Protect Tassie forest...

Brief: Support the Preston M...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: A history of the Wob...

Review: Why it’s necess...

On the box

Poem: Pulping due process

Poem: Welcome to the gates of liars...

read »Loose Cannons

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