Headlines from GLW #726, 3 October 2007:

Burma's long struggle for democracy

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 28 September 2007

BURMA: What began on August 15 as protests against escalating fuel and transport prices and deteriorating economic conditions has developed into a mass uprising in Burma. From September 17, mobilisations by Buddhist monks and nuns emboldened thousands of Burmese to take to the streets in the largest protests since the pro-democracy uprising in 1988 that was brutally crushed, with over 3000 people killed, by the military regime that has ruled Burma since 1962. »

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Venezuela: Revolution brings massive social gains

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 September 2007

VENEZUELA: “The Venezuelan economy in the Chavez years”, a study released in July by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, reveals massive social gains for the poor and working people in Venezuela as a result of the pro-people polices promoted by the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez. The study, by Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval, also provides a detailed look at the state of the Venezuelan economy, which has experienced significant economic growth. The authors argue that, contrary to suggestions widely made in the corporate media (which the authors refer to as “conventional wisdom”), this growth is unlikely to end any time soon. »

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Hugo Chavez to visit Australia

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 29 September 2007

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Peru: How Cuba's solidarity makes a difference

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2007

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: who does the corrupting?

GENERAL, 29 September 2007

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Defiant Victorian unionists put politicians on guard

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 29 September 2007

At least 20,000 Victorian unionists defied the federal government’s anti-worker laws and risked fines to show their opposition to Work Choices and the Australian Building and Construction Commission on September 26. »

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A land of deep and abiding racism

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 September 2007

Those who claim that Australia is not a land of deep and abiding racism live in a fairy tale. This willful denial of reality is abetted by the commercial media, self-serving politicians, bureaucrats and capitalists of all stripes — those whose interests are served by maintaining the divisions of racism while convincing us that no such divisions exist. »

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Delicious sedition

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