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Headlines from GLW #749, 7 May 2008:


Lennon's Brutopia: Gunns' pulp mill and the corporate take-over
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 3 May 2008
On April 2, federal environment minister Peter Garrett gave the green light to Gunns to start bulk earthwork operations on the site of their proposed pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. »

Latin America: John Pilger on US covert war
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008
Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world’s dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent — Latin America. »

Global economic crisis: ‘No-one knows where the toxic debt is buried’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2008
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Taxi drivers' blockade wins its demands
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008
Taxi drivers staged a spontaneous and ultimately successful protest on April 29-30, shutting down the major intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets for more than 22 hours, after the near fatal stabbing of a young driver. »

Unions call for troops to leave Afghanistan
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008
The death of the fifth Australian solider in Afghanistan on April 27, followed a few days later by the wounding of another, has refocused attention on Australia’s involvement in the US-led occupation. »

Australian unionists deliver greetings to Venezuelan workers
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network May Day brigade of 15 unionists attended a massive May Day march in Caracas along with an estimated 500,000-750,000 people, all in red T-shirts, from all over the country. Two of the participants, John Cleary and Coral Wynter, addressed the rally. “It was amazing and exciting. We gave greetings on behalf of Australian workers and received a loud cheer. You really feel the power of the working class”, Coral Wynter told Green Left Weekly. “We had a great banner and as I think we were the only organised group of foreigners we were interviewed by three television stations — Telesur, VTV and Vive — and had numerous radio interviews. We danced and skipped along the route from La Bandera to Puente Laguno. Unfortunately President Hugo Chavez didn’t speak, but the day before he announced another 30% increase in the minimum wage. It was a great day!” »

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Other Headlines


Venezuela: ‘This year’s May Day is very special’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2008
“We have just attended a massive march of workers for May Day in Caracas”, Coral Wynter, a coordinator of the current Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigade to Venezuela, told Green Left Weekly. »

Venezuela: ‘Do they think we are morons?’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2008
On live TV, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed the law on April 30 that re-nationalised the giant Sidor steelworks — majority owned by Argentinean-based Ternium corporation. »

Afghanistan: Taliban continue growing in strength
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008
In a blow to repeated claims this year by US and NATO officials that their 50,000-strong occupation force has Afghanistan’s Taliban-led anti-occupation insurgency “on the run”, insurgents used assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades to attack a heavily guarded official ceremony near the presidential palace in the centre of Kabul on April 27. »

Bolivia: Civil war looms as oligarchy refuses negotiation
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008
As I write this article, the situation in Bolivia seems to be heading toward a civil war provoked by the secessionist attitude of the oligarchies in Santa Cruz and the other departments of the Half Moon (Tarija, Pando and Beni — in resource-rich eastern Bolivia), the prefect of Cochabamba and maybe someone else who remains in the shadows. »

Workers defy Boeing and win
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008
A three-week dispute that stopped production at Port Melbourne-based Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland (HdH), closing sections of the Triple Seven aeroplane assembly line in the US due to a lack of parts, ended on April 27. At a mass meeting outside the gates of the Boeing plant the 700 workers voted overwhelmingly to return to work. »

Mexico: Oil privatisation halted due to mass protests
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

Rudd continues mandatory detention
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008

The Bolivian acid test
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

The next Dr Haneef?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008

Anti-power sell off campaign scores a win
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008

Solomon Islands: report slams Australian-led intervetion
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

ALBA summit tackles food crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

Biofuels threaten global indigenous tribes
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

Egypt rocked by class struggle, food crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

May Day targets NSW power sell-off
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 May 2008

United States: Anti-war strike shuts down ports
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 May 2008

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  • Some discrimination ends for same-s...
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