Headlines from GLW #708, 9 May 2007:

Venezuela takes on oil multinationals

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 4 May 2007

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John Pilger: Washington’s war on democracy

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 May 2007

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Christmas Island: Howard's new refugee shame

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 May 2007

Christmas Island, 2800 kilometres north-west of Perth, 2500 kilometres from Darwin and 500 kilometres from Singapore, is one of Australia’s most remote Indian Ocean territories. It is where many asylum seekers first make their refugee claims. But since the 2001 arrival of the Tampa and the island’s excision from Australia’s migration zone, the island has been pivotal to the Howard government’s heartless response to asylum seekers. »

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Kevin Rudd's Work Choices lite

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 May 2007

The April 27-29 ALP national conference adopted an industrial relations policy for the forthcoming federal election. Forward with Fairness confirmed Kevin Rudd’s announcement on April 17 that a future ALP government would seek to enforce the Howard government’s ban on all strikes outside of a recognised bargaining period and insist on secret ballots before strikes could be called. »

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Exit Yeltsin

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2007

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Venezuela: Socialism from below

RESISTANCE!, 4 May 2007

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US May Day protests: Immigrant workers demand rights and dignity

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2007

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Pakistani socialist arrested

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 May 2007

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read »International News

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Cairo conference calls for resistan...

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Eviction resisters test property ri...

Exit Yeltsin

Greening Venezuela’s revolutio...

Indonesia: Thousands rally on May D...

Iraq: Bush troop ‘surge’ ...

Pakistani socialist arrested

Protesters clash with police in Mac...

Strong result for Bove in Kanaky

US May Day protests: Immigrant work...

US Supreme Court attacks abortion r...

Venezuela takes on oil multinationa...

read »Comment & Analysis

A cry for help from Villawood refug...

Christmas Island: Howard's new refu...

Fighting fund: The US$564 billion w...

John Pilger: Washington’s war on ...

Labor opts for open slather uranium...

Labor: a party for workers?

Prison guard: `You activists get wh...

The dirty politics of climate chang...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Venezuela: Soci...

Our Common Cause: Campaignin...

read »Australian News

Esperance lead scandal worsens

Gold Coast socialists select candid...

Kevin Rudd's Work Choices lite

Labor changes its refugee policy, s...

Labor endorses state relationship r...

Melbourne contingent planned for AP...

Powderfinger silenced by lawyer

QUT student-staff rally save humani...

RMIT plans to disable students

Sacked for refusing to sign an AWA

Sydneysiders urged to stay for anti...

Tamils reject ‘terrorism’...

Brief: Cops target gays agai...

Brief: Perth students rally

Brief: Press freedoms under ...

Brief: Protesters picket How...

Brief: Radio doco series on ...

Brief: Scorcher launch in Br...

read »Cultural Dissent

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