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Headlines from GLW #731, 14 November 2007:


Work Choices II: Howard's real agenda
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 November 2007
In a striking piece of political theatre, on November 5 federal workplace ogre Joe Hockey promised to resign from a re-elected Howard ministry if the government changed Work Choices (significantly). “They can run all the scare campaigns they want”, Hockey said, “but the bottom line is if we are making any substantial changes to our laws, then I will resign.” »

Venezuela: Reform battle continues as Chavez ally splits
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 November 2007
VENEZUELA: Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on November 4, in a massive sea of red, to support the proposed constitutional reforms adopted by the National Assembly that will be put to a referendum on December 2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has explained that the reforms aim to deepen the Bolivarian revolution that his government is leading, which has already achieved significant gains in redistributing wealth and power to the poor majority. »

Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007
PAKISTAN: On November 3, Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf initiated an intensified crackdown against all opposition to his increasingly unstable regime, with the decleration of a state of emergency. While the military’s spin doctors have attempted to make a distinction between this state of emergency and martial law, it has seen thousands of people put into “preventative detention”, mobile phones jammed, all non-government broadcasting stations taken off air and the abandonment of what pretence of rule of law still remained under Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999. »

Pakistan: `Musharraf's days are up'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007

Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: People's power revolution needs your solidarity
GENERAL, 11 November 2007

Has Rudd's anti-unionism handed Howard a lifeline?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 November 2007

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Hugo! The Definitive Chavez Biography
REVIEW, 9 November 2007

Kerry Nettle: `A crucial turning point'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 12 November 2007

Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sanctions
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 November 2007

Legislating racism
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 November 2007
As the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention grinds on with an escalating price-tag and concomitant obfuscation from politicians and bureaucrats about its actual implementation, we are beginning to see media reports — especially from the rampantly pro-intervention Rupert Murdoch stable — of support for the measures from the affected communities. While most of these refer to “whitefella” bureaucrats or store managers, the most cherished, obviously, have been apparent endorsements from Indigenous people as each new phase is rolled out. Most recently, we’ve seen the same pattern as welfare quarantining has started to come into effect in some communities. »

The Iraqi resistance in their own words
REVIEW, 9 November 2007
Meeting Resistance
Directed by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham
<http://www.meetingresistance.com/> »

South Pacific: Venezuela expands oil aid
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007

Venezuela's revolution for humanity
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007

Afghanistan: Three western districts fall to Taliban
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007

The corporate interests behind Howard's land grab
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 November 2007
Les Malezer, chair of the UN Global Indigenous Caucus, which was responsible for drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, spoke to a packed meeting in the Redfern community centre on October 28. “Our wealth is that of our Indigenous values: land, culture and spirit”, he said. “Not in assimilation, not in power, not in dollars, not in telling our people what they should do, or running organisations that do the same. Our wealth is in our lands, territories and resources. And the forced theft of these means that there must be reparation.” »

Venezuela strengthens solidarity with the Pacific
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 November 2007
Venezuela’s vice-minister of foreign affairs for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Vladimir Villegas, lead the Venezuelan delegation to the 38th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF — formerly the South Pacific Forum) meeting in Tonga on October 16-17. The PIF is the coordinated annual meeting, organised along a concensus model, of the heads of states of the 16 PIF members — Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, NZ, Tonga, Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, PNG, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, with New Caledonia and French Polynesia being associated members, and Tokelau, Wallis, Futuna, the Commonwealth and the Asia Development Bank having official observor status. East Timor has had “special observer” status since 2002. With 33% of the world’s total surface and 46% of its ocean area, the 25000 Pacific Islands comprise 17 independent nations – all of whom have a vote and representation in the United Nations (11 have achieved this status only since 1960). Green Left Weekly’s Lara Pullin spoke with Villegas during the forum about Venezuela’s plans to increase cooperation, on the basis of solidarity, with the region. »

Solidarity with the Pakistani people
RESISTANCE!, 9 November 2007
Resistance stands in solidarity with the Pakistani people fighting for democracy and the removal of the Musharraf regime. Thousands of people have defied the ban on demonstrations to protest against “emergency rule” and the dictatorial regime. »

Housing: a right not a privilege
RESISTANCE!, 9 November 2007
I tell them “turn on the water”
I tell ’em “turn on the heat”
Tells me “All you ever do is complain”
Then they search the place when I’m not here
But we can, you know we can
Let’s lynch the landlord man
— Dead Kennedys »

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  • Argentina: Voter apathy delivers Fe...
  • China: Behind Beijing's `social har...
  • Cyprus: Can the people take the fut...
  • Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens
  • Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sancti...
  • Mass protests demand pro-US preside...
  • Pakistan: People challenge US-backe...
  • Pakistan: `Musharraf's days are up'...
  • Revolution under attack; solidarity...
  • South Pacific: Venezuela expands oi...
  • Venezuela strengthens solidarity wi...
  • Venezuela's revolution for humanity...
  • Venezuela: Reform battle continues ...
  • Wave of solidarity with Cuban Five

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  • Behind the blather
  • Has Rudd's anti-unionism handed How...
  • Ken Fry, 1920-2007
  • Kerry Nettle: `A crucial turning po...
  • Legislating racism
  • On the socialist campaign trail
  • People's power revolution needs you...
  • Support Pakistan’s democracy m...
  • The corporate interests behind Howa...
  • Two years without trial for 22 Musl...
  • Work Choices II: Howard's real agen...
  • Resistance!: Housing: a righ...
  • Resistance!: Solidarity with...
  • Our Common Cause: Aboriginal...

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

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  • Foster's workers fight for union ag...
  • Howard's fairness test 'a shambles'...
  • MUA supports Aboriginal resistance
  • Socialist Alliance launches campaig...
  • Students protest pulp mill
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  • Brief: Rallies call for acti...
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