Headlines from GLW #721, 22 August 2007:

World's #1 terrorist not welcome here!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 August 2007

Amid an unprecedented security hype in the lead-up to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, organisers of the “Stop Bush/Make Howard History” protest on September 8 are expecting thousands of anti-war, environment and workers’ rights activists to take to Sydney’s streets to give US President George Bush the kind of welcome he deserves. Green Left Weekly’s Pip Hinman spoke to Stop Bush Coalition spokesperson and Stop the War Coalition activist Alex Bainbridge. »

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Why is housing so unaffordable?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 August 2007

The August 8 announcement of the Reserve Bank board’s decision to raise official interest rates by a further 0.25% focused renewed media attention on the non-affordability of housing. The interest rate rise — the fifth since the 2004 election and the ninth since 2002 — increased mortgage repayments for home owners with average mortgages by $50 a week, placing extra pressure on already stretched budgets. »

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Venezuela: Reforms to strengthen democracy, promote ‘social economy’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 August 2007

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Peru: Workers resist ‘free trade’ agreement

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 August 2007

PERU: Popular resistance to neoliberal “reform” was the underlying cause of Peru’s July general strike. On July 5, public schoolteachers walked off the job over government plans to privatise education. Within days, discontented workers from other industries joined the embattled teachers. Before long, schools, mines, factories and construction sites were shut down as tens of thousands of striking protesters took to the streets of every major city demanding higher pay, improved conditions and revisions to the US-Peru free-trade agreement. Peasant farmers joined the mass mobilisation, closing roads and paralysing transport networks. »

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Decent housing is a basic human right

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 August 2007

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Thousands demonstrate for same-sex equality

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 August 2007

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Colombia: FENSUAGRO organiser to sp...

Iraq: British ‘defeated’ in Bas...

Peru: Workers resist ‘free trade�...

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Scottish socialists back independen...

South Africa: The ’Zumaficatio...

Venezuela: Reforms to strengthen de...

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A permanent state of war

Combating global warming requires a...

Decent housing is a basic human rig...

Environmentalists: why we'll be pro...

Howard's racist NT measures rushed ...

Life in a two-tier society

Push for GM crops continues

Stealthy attacks on workers' health...

Toyota plans downsizing, says sacke...

Why is housing so unaffordable?

World's #1 terrorist not welcome he...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Get your Stop B...

Resistance!: Students wake u...

Our Common Cause: Multimedia...

read »General

Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 F...

read »Australian News

Crossroads meeting draws 1000

Customs targets activist

Deportation, suicide threat at Vill...

Esselte workers speak out

Film exposes Howard's construction ...

Forum dispels Howard's nuclear myth...

Foster's refuses union agreement

H-Day rally condemns nuclear indust...

Iraq war veteran condemns occupatio...

Justice for the innocent

Laywers to video police during APEC...

Parramatta preselects socialist can...

South Australia defenceless

Thousands demonstrate for same-sex ...

Venezuelan revolution 'the answer t...

WA socialists plan campaigns

Brief: A new attack on civil...

Brief: Conference discusses ...

Brief: Hospital workers stri...

Brief: Posties protest mail ...

Brief: Unfinished business

Brief: West Papuans mark ann...

Brief: Wilderness Society lo...

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