Headlines from GLW #730, 7 November 2007:

Liberals, Labor give up on global warming

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 November 2007

The scientists are horrified. But not being media-savvy publicists, they generally leave their shocking findings in scientific journals. The politicians quote cautious statements issued by scientific committees early in the decade, and worry about scaring off corporate funding. The business executives look for the chance of new profits, and hire public relations experts to advise them on cultivating a green image. »

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Bolivia: 'A project for the liberation of the poor’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 November 2007

BOLIVIA: “Here in Bolivia, the majority have realised that the neoliberals have always betrayed us. Now the people cannot be so easily bought off, there is growing consciousness and a shift in the attitude of society. That is why it will be difficult for [the neoliberals] to defeat us now. We will continue governing for at least 50 to 100 years — some say forever.” This is how Roman Loayza, head of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) group of delegates to Bolivia’s constituent assembly, described the situation in Bolivia when Green Left Weekly spoke to him on October 17. »

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Unions: Howard's final fear campaign

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 2 November 2007

PM John Howard is running low on stocks for a fear campaign to propel him back into office for a fifth time. In 1998, Howard gave just enough support to Pauline Hanson’s racist fear campaign against Asian migrants and Aboriginal people to to get him over the line in spite of promising to bring in the unpopular GST. In 2001, the fear campaign was generated by the Tampa refugees, with Howard defiantly claiming, “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. In 2004, it was the threat of rising interest rates under Labor — oops, can’t use that one again Johnnie! »

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Tariq Ali on Afghanistan: Six years of a war of terror

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 November 2007

The US launched its first assault in the “war on terror” in Afghanistan six years ago. Today, the country remains one of the poorest places on Earth, ruled by a corrupt warlord elite. Tariq Ali, a veteran of the anti-war struggle for four decades, spoke to Sherry Wolf about the disastrous consequences of the US-led war — and what the future holds. »

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: A very special project

GENERAL, 2 November 2007

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VENEZUELA: Right-wing protests as constitutional reform debate continues

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 November 2007

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Students walk out: 'No pulp mill!'

RESISTANCE!, 3 November 2007

RESISTANCE!: Six hundred students from more than a dozen high schools and colleges walked out of school and gathered at Parliament House lawns in Hobart on November 1 to protest against Gunns’ pulp mill. The mill, planned for the Tamar Valley near Launceston, would be the biggest of its kind in the world and has been approved by both state and federal governments. »

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Other Headlines

Also in #730:

read »International News

Bolivia: 'A project for the liberat...

BRITAIN: Anti-war party suffers spl...

Countering climate change: Latin Am...

East Timor: ‘We don’t wan...

Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas leaders abduct...

Iran: Bush announces 'new' sanction...

IRAQ: US escalates air attacks five...

New Zealand: Behind the ‘terror r...

Pakistan: Day two of underground li...

Pakistan: Escaped by seconds -- day...

PALESTINE: Gaza siege causing human...

Sri Lanka: Tamil rebels attack air ...

Tariq Ali on Afghanistan: Six years...

UN condemns US blockade on Cuba -; ...

VENEZUELA: Right-wing protests as c...

read »Comment & Analysis

ABCC: Howard's ideologically driven...

Arctic melt demands action now

Behind the blather

Labor and the Accord

Liberals, Labor give up on global w...

Nuclear power and water scarcity

On the socialist campaign trail

Port Phillip Bay: channel deepening...

Socialist Alliance candidate addres...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: Don't let Gunns...

Resistance!: Students walk o...

Our Common Cause: Abolish Wo...

read »General

Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighti...

read »Australian News

Abortion reform on agenda in Queens...

AFP support for Burma junta condemn...

Big Day Out Against Racism planned

DEWR fined for discriminating again...

Moore for less free speech

NSWTF votes for May Day action

RTN calls for more refuge funding

TAFE teachers incensed at fee incre...

Tasmanian nurses step up industrial...

Unions: Howard's final fear campaig...

Wonthaggi residents protest desalin...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: Maralinga's nuclear ...

Postcolonial perspective

South Africa: 'Babylon' and the mur...

Violeta Parra - mother of the New C...