Headlines from GLW #717, 18 July 2007:

Iraq: Howard government admits what we all knew

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 July 2007

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Real rights and recognition replace racism in Venezuela

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 July 2007

VENEZUELA: Like the rest of Latin America, Venezuela’s history is scarred by colonialism’s racist legacy — Venezuela’s people were dispossessed in 1520 following Spanish settlement. In the following centuries, they were systematically killed and their land exploited. Slavery, which allowed the colonisers to plunder Venezuela, existed until 1854, and at the time of the 1830 constitution neither indigenous people nor those descended from Africa were recognised as Venezuelans. »

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Workers need an independent campaign against Work Choices

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 July 2007

PM John Howard and ALP leader Kevin Rudd have both attacked Unions NSW secretary John Robertson for comments, secretly recorded and leaked to the media, made at a Bennelong Your Rights at Work meeting in late June. »

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Federal bill threatens GM moratoriums

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 July 2007

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Howard’s racist land grab

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 July 2007

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Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Fighting Fund Appeal: Swindlers, snake oil merchants and denialists

GENERAL, 14 July 2007

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Gay refugee sues the government

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 July 2007

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Permaculture and Marxism

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 July 2007

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Scotland: Review rejects key Lockerbie ‘evidence’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 July 2007

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'Community need, not corporate gree...

AMWU elections: the left cleans up

Dancing against capitalism: Russell...

Dear Kevin: ‘Unions want a real o...

Federal bill threatens GM moratoriu...

Gay refugee sues the government

GM push vilifies organics

Howard ducks for cover on 457 visa ...

Howard’s racist land grab

Iraq: Howard government admits what...

Labour conference discusses mobilis...

Palestine: Breaking the siege in Ga...

Permaculture and Marxism

Salute to Gail Lord (1952-2007)

Victoria to lift GM ban?

Workers need an independent campaig...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Oh no, ASIO has...

Resistance!: Our world, our ...

Our Common Cause: Indigenous...

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Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 F...

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Another Tamil arrested

Anti-war action connects with US sa...

Doctor charged after 12 days in det...

Esselte and Howard losing on AWAs i...

Latin America solidarity boosted

NAIDOC rally in Adelaide

NSW police 0, Cheney protesters 4

Rallies call for justice for Indige...

Ralph’s Bay still threatened

Record numbers in favour of gay mar...

Shaming QUT on freedom of speech an...

Unionists protest ALP state confere...

Venezuelan embassy hosts solidarity...

Brief: Anti-war activist
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Brief: Greenhouse solutions

Brief: Queers stand tall wit...

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Review: Bird flu - the not-s...

Review: The story of ‘A...

Review: We are what we eat

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