Headlines from GLW #733, 28 November 2007:

Venezuela: massive show of support for reforms

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 November 2007

VENEZUELA: student protests two weeks ago against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s proposed constitutional reforms, more than 50,000 students marched in favour of the reforms in Caracas on November 22. The reforms aim to facilitate the massive deepening of the revolutionary process lead by the Chavez government that has already made significant inroads into reducing poverty, in order to open the transition to a ‘socialism of the 21st Century”. The reforms, which have been widely debated throughout society and have been adopted by the National Assembly, will be put to a referendum on December 2. »

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Drugs, sport, hypocrisy and media hysteria

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 November 2007

This year there has been a series of drug-related scandals in Australia’s two major football codes, the Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL). The scandals have nothing to do with “performance enhancing” drug, or even anything to do with the game of football at all. These scandals have been beaten up by a media circus, which has itself fed a frenzy of moral hypocrisy, led by the (now-former) federal Coalition government, with the “me-too” Labor Party chiming in. »

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UN report: Severe climate change may now be `inevitable'

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 November 2007

Despite the fact that the November 24 federal election was supposed to be a “climate-change election”, the release on November 17 of the fourth and final report from the UN’s Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) barely garnered manstream media attention. »

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Howard's overboard - but the struggle continues

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 November 2007

The Socialist Alliance "Howard Overboard" election night party in Green Left Weekly's offices in Sydney spontaneously spilled into the streets when John Howard conceded defeat. Jubilant activists celebrated with chants, whistles and pots and pans in a lap around the block which drew out people from their homes. A right-wing government that has plagued Australia since 1996 has been defeated and we have much to celebrate. »

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Grandparents ponder serious change

GENERAL, 24 November 2007

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