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Headlines from GLW #736, 23 January 2008:


Rudd must abolish racist policies
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008
On January 7, Indigenous activist Christine King made a statement to ABC Radio on behalf of the Stolen Generations Alliance. She called on the Rudd government to put its money where its mouth is and provide a national fund of $1 billion to compensate the stolen generations. »

Climate crisis: radical action needed now
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008
In 1997 at Kyoto, Al Gore bamboozled negotiators into adopting carbon trading as a central climate strategy in exchange for Washington’s support — which never materialised. »

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Venezuela's Chavez: Socialism still our goal
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2008
A collective discussion is occurring throughout the revolutionary movement led by President Hugo Chavez following the defeat of the proposed constitutional reform proposals — that were intended to deepen the revolution to help open the way towards socialism — in the December 2 referendum. »

Taiwan: Setback for pro-independence party
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

Palestine: New massacres follow Bush visit
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

India: Mass rally in solidarity with Nandigram peasants
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

Philip Agee: US spy turned good
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2008

India: Socialists call for people’s resistance, left resurgence
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

Kenya: Rigged election triggers ‘tribal’ violence
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2008

Bolivia: New constitution sparks right-wing revolt
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008
In December, after 16 months of wrangling, the elected delegates to the constituent assembly finally passed a draft constitution that will be put to a national referendum sometime before September. »

Interview with Bolivian Vice President Garcia: ‘Political crisis’ a media beat-up
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008
The 10oC “summer” weather in Bolivia’s capital city is strongly felt in Bolivian Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera's house, which has no heating, like nearly all the houses in La Paz. For almost an hour we went over the conjuncture of a week of uncertain negotiations between the government and opposition, in search of an anxiously awaited national accord. »

Rudd backs US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008
During a December 21 visit to Iraq, newly elected Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that Australia’s “battle group” of 515 combat troops would be withdrawn from the country by June 2007. »

Campaign against electricity privatisation launched
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 January 2008
The proposal by Premier Morris Iemma to privatise electricity generation in NSW has been met with a campaign of opposition from unionists and community activists. »

Colombia: Chavez leads freeing of FARC-held prisoners
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2008

DSP Congress reaffirms commitment to broad left regroupment
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008
The 23rd Congress of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance in Australia, reaffirmed its commitment to broader left regroupment. »

Pakistan: Musharraf struggles to hold on
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2008

Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Corporate power vs people's power
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008
There are two starkly different election processes underway right now, but most readers will probably have only been reading about one of them: the US presidential elections, which Forbes magazine estimates will likely cost as much as US$3.3 billion all up! In Cuba, just 145 kilometres from the coast of Florida, a very different election process is taking place. »

United States: Will voters get the change they want?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2008

United States: Writers continue strike as directors negotiate contract
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

Iraq: Has US troop surge ‘worked’?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2008

Peter McGregor 1947-2008
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008

Raging against the system
RESISTANCE!, 18 January 2008
Headlining this year’s Big Day Out is Rage Against the Machine. RATM stands out as one of the few bands to achieve mainstream success while putting an openly anti-capitalist message. »

Fossil Fools' Day
RESISTANCE!, 18 January 2008

Close Guantanamo Bay!
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 January 2008

Climate change | Social change conference
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 January 2008

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