Headlines from GLW #724, 19 September 2007:

Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and united

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 14 September 2007

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Bolivia needs our solidarity

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 September 2007

BOLIVIA: For Bolivia’s indigenous majority there is no going back. The election in 2005 of Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, marked a watershed — a before and after in Bolivia’s history — after more than 500 years of struggle against imperialism and colonialism. It marked a conscious step forward by Bolivia’s indigenous majority in its struggle for justice and equality. »

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Washington’s silent war on Venezuela and Bolivia

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 September 2007

The United States government has almost perfected a method of intervention that is able to penetrate and infiltrate all sectors of civil society in countries that it deems to be of economic and strategic interest. In the case of oil-rich Venezuela — in the middle of a process of transformation led by socialist President Hugo Chavez that is adversely affecting the interests of US corporations — this strategy began to take form in 2002. »

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Remembering Sabra and Shatila

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 September 2007

PALESTINE: Twenty-five years ago this September — after its 1982 invasion of Lebanon had achieved its military objectives by forcing an evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to Tunisia — Israel unleashed the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia on the defenceless civilians of Beirut refugee camps Sabra and Shatila. Under the Israeli occupation of West Beirut, the Phalangists, armed by and in liaison with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), carried out a three-day spree of killing and rape, massacring an estimated 3000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. »

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APEC fails on climate change, pushes nukes

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 September 2007

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Government UN vote exposes racist NT intervention

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 September 2007

A motion moved by Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett calling on the government to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous people was voted down in the Senate on September 10. This comes at a time when the Northern Territory intervention by the Howard Government has started to put “boots on the ground” in the NT, with few results reported from the mainstream media and serious criticism from Aboriginal and human rights groups. »

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East Timor: Challenges for the Xanana alliance

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 September 2007

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‘Unfair laws should be fought’

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 September 2007

“I think all these unfair tribunals and all this unfairness have to be removed”, Derek Belan, NSW state secretary of the National Union of Workers, told Green Left Weekly in response to Labor’s release of its Forward with Fairness Policy Implementation Plan in late August. “If Labor is elected, people are voting that they don’t want this stuff. There is a mandate to remove it. People are aware what this stuff means and people want it removed and Labor has to listen.” »

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Also in #724:

read »International News

A small victory against apartheid w...

Bolivia needs our solidarity

Bolivia: No longer victims and slav...

Britain: TUC gives Brown a frosty r...

Cambodians set up Casa Cuba

CHILE: Echoes of dictatorship in th...

China: Strikes and riots

East Timor: Challenges for the Xana...

El Salvador: Nurses’ union lea...

Iraq: Deadliest summer yet for US t...

Leaving Ecuador's oil in the ground...

Remembering Sabra and Shatila

Washington’s silent war on Ven...

read »Comment & Analysis

‘Unfair laws should be fought&...

Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and u...

APEC anti-Bush protests: the voice ...

APEC fails on climate change, pushe...

East Timor: DSP calls for Australia...

Government UN vote exposes racist N...

Labor to close school in Sydney's w...

Massive Stop Bush protest rains on ...

NSW police: mission accomplished?

Zero emissions or permanent drought...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Students led th...

Our Common Cause: Police sta...

read »General

$250,000 fighting fund: People's p...

read »Australian News

AMWU speaks out against 457-visa ab...

Andrews denies Tamil refugees entry...

Brisbane continues campaign for civ...

Collective agreement, sacked delega...

Meeting supports Tamil trio

Moolarben mine ‘a reckless act...

Stolen Aboriginal wages launch in B...

Textile workers resist AWAs

Western Sydney charges Bush with wa...

read »Cultural Dissent

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Review: Strummer - the gentl...

Review: Wobbly workers’...

Walkout Against George