Headlines from GLW #719, 1 August 2007:

What's behind Howard's terror law frame-ups?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 July 2007

Shortly after midnight on July 29, Indian Muslim doctor Mohamed Haneef boarded a flight in Brisbane to be reunited with his wife in Bangalore and meet his newly born daughter for the first time, as he was trying to do at the time of his arrest at Brisbane Airport on July 2. The previous evening, he had been released from jail, after federal Director of Public Prosecutions Damien Bugg announced he was dropping all charges, conceding that the “anti-terrorism” case against the Gold Coast Hospital registrar had collapsed. “On my view of this matter a mistake has been made”, Bugg told a media conference. »

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Venezuela: The struggle for workers’ power

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 28 July 2007

VENEZUELA: The Venezuelan revolution, led by socialist President Hugo Chavez, has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world with its increasingly successful challenge to US imperialism and US-backed neoliberal policies that have caused widespread impoverishment across Latin America. Since Chavez’s re-election in December on an explicitly socialist platform, there has been a struggle to significantly “deepen” the revolutionary process towards creating a “socialism of the 21st century”. »

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Tas forests, pulp mill: Another Rudd betrayal

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 July 2007

Federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd took a further step to the right on July 23 when he announced full support for logging old-growth forests in Tasmania. Rudd also announced his support for Gunns Ltd’s $2 billion pulp mill project proposed for the Tamar Valley, north of Launceston, in the federal electorate of Bass. »

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Pakistan: Washington considers military intervention

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 July 2007

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Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Fighting Fund: Postcard from Vietnam

GENERAL, 27 July 2007

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Are the unions in crisis?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 July 2007

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Also in #719:

read »International News

Chile: When students rocked Santiag...

Day of action over Iranian unionist...

Ecuador: Clash of old and new

Indonesia: Youth key to new politic...

Iraq: Major resistance groups to fo...

Israel boycott campaign momentum gr...

New Zealand: Hospital workers beat ...

Oslo Mark II?

Pakistan: Washington considers mili...

Venezuela: The struggle for workers...

Venezuelan union leaders call for f...

Why they’re sick of Sicko

Zapatista Intergalactica in Chiapas...

read »Comment & Analysis

A voice for the voiceless

Are the unions in crisis?

Bush, Howard to help India's nuclea...

Indigenous childcare service fights...

Indigenous communities' employment ...

Tas forests, pulp mill: Another Rud...

Terminate Tulla toxic dump!

What's behind Howard's terror law f...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Bush's crimes a...

Resistance!: Eating disorder...

Our Common Cause: A new visi...

read »General

Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 F...

read »Australian News

Attacks on civil rights continue

Candidate slams corporate polluters...

Denying HIV meds to the poor

Fosters workers want a union agreem...

Haneef forum: ‘We must not be sil...

Navy personnel resent refugee borde...

Socialist Alliance holds NSW confer...

Students demand sacking of VC

Tamils' homeland struggle continues...

Brief: Mass anti-Howard rall...

Brief: Tasmania’s Clean...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: A voice of optimism ...

Review: Culture, power and s...

Review: Music for the social...

Justice for Mulrunji now!

On the box

Politics of Justice

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Loose Cannons