Headlines from GLW #734, 5 December 2007:

Unionists call for Work Choices' complete abolition

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 November 2007

The November 24 rout of the Howard government owed much to the work of the organised labour movement. Of the marginal Coalition seats targeted by the Your Rights at Work (YRAW) campaign, 20 of 24 have fallen to Labor (including John Howard’s own seat of Bennelong); the other four remain in doubt. Most of those who voted for Labor did so believing that Labor would abolish Work Choices, as promised by Kevin Rudd on October 14, the official start to the election campaign. Yet Labor’s industrial relations policy — Forward with Fairness — promises only minimal changes, replacing the Coalition’s legislation with “Work Choices Lite”. »

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Venezuela: Democracy or dictatorship?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 November 2007

VENEZUELA: Much coverage of the Venezuelan revolution in the corporate-owned media presents a severely distorted picture of what is occurring in Venezuela and the nature and actions of the government of President Hugo Chavez. James Jordan, the emergency response coordinator for the US-based Venezuela Solidarity Network (<http://vensolidarity.org>), attempts to answer some of the key lies and distortions. »

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End support to Afghan narco-regime: Bring the troops home now!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 November 2007

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Venezuela: Chavez — workers must be in the vanguard of constructing socialism

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 29 November 2007

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Help bury Howard's agenda

GENERAL, 30 November 2007

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Court rules Balibo killings a war crime

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 1 December 2007

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