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Headlines from GLW #751, 21 May 2008:


The new apartheid for Indigenous Australians
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
Since beginning its first parliamentary term with the symbolic apology to the Stolen Generations, the Rudd Labor government has promised a shift away from the hostility towards Indigenous Australians shown by the previous Howard government. »

ACT backs down: Support same-sex marriage!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
AUSTRALIA: The federal Labor government says it is not homophobic. Yet it agrees with its Coalition predecessor that marriage is a “union between a man and woman”. Regardless of opinion on marriage, the legal rights afforded this institution should be available to all couples regardless of gender. »

France: May ’68 — Students and workers’ revolt shakes the world
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008
FRANCE: In May and June of 1968, a movement erupted in France that threatened not just the survival of the government of President Charles De Gaulle but the system that it represented — capitalism. »

Another world is absolutely possible!
RESISTANCE!, 17 May 2008
RESISTANCE!: While we heralded the end of the Howard regime, those of us involved in the many campaigns for social and environmental justice knew the fight had not ended with his demise. We knew the struggle for real and lasting justice would go on, and this is why it is important that we stay inspired and active. »

From GLW paper edition #751 - 21 May 2008. Subscribe now.



Other Headlines


Latin America has ‘created its own neighbourhood’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2008
The drums of war are once again beginning to sound, as US imperialism steps up its propaganda attack on Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. »

Bolivia: Recall referendums open new struggle
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008
A new period of uncertainty has opened in Bolivia with the initiation of recall referendums for the president and prefects of Bolivia’s nine departments by the opposition-controlled Senate. »

The coal industry's ace in the hole
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
The coal industry is planning to replace oil by turning coal into liquid fuels and into feedstocks for the chemical industry. Of course they are also planning to burn ever-more coal to produce electricity. If these plans materialise, green chemistry and renewable solar energy will both be sidelined for the rest of this century. »

Bush says starving India eats too much
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008
Karl Marx, born nearly two centuries ago, had in 1867 (in the first volume of Capital) laid bare the “intimate connection between the pangs of hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which capitalist accumulation is the basis”. »

Labor's me-too budget
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
The Rudd government’s first budget, touted as a “Robin Hood” budget, takes very little from the “rich” and gives practically nothing to the poor and disadvantaged. In its fundamentals, it continues on from where the former Howard Coalition government left off. »

Our Common Cause: Their budget priorities and ours
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 17 May 2008
“Here is a government that has given us a guarantee that working Australians all get a look in, not just the big end of town”, said Australian Council of Trade Unions president Sharan Burrow of federal Treasurer Wayne Swan’s first budget. »

Leichhardt Library censors Palestinian peace group
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 May 2008
Israel’s 60th birthday caused quite a stir in Leichhardt (Sydney). To mark the 60th anniversary of what Palestinians call al Nakba (the catastrophe), on May 8 the Leichhardt Public Library allowed a local peace activist group to install Hebron and al Nakba. »

United States: A leftward shift — seeing the forest through the sleaze
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2008

Israel imposes economic crisis on Palestine
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2008

Burmese junta gets in some violin practice while death toll climbs
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2008

Starving Afghan families sell children
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

Afghanistan: Anti-occupation protesters shot by police
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

Lebanon: Not civil war — war against the resistance
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

New Zealand: Broad left party strides ahead
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

France: Massive high school mobilisations against government attacks
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

Venezuela stops open-cut and gold mines
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 May 2008

Power workers march for pay and conditions
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 May 2008
More than 1000 electricity workers, employed by Energex, Ergon Energy and Powerlink, marched through the city on May 14 in an escalation of the combined power unions’ campaign for improved pay and conditions from the three state government-owned corporations. »

TPVs finally shelved, deportations continuing
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 May 2008

Come camp for climate action!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
The following statement is from the Climate Camp organising committee. »

Students fight for Muslim prayer facility
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 May 2008

Campaign against energy sell-off gains momentum
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2008
The battle over the privatisation of NSW electricity continues. A power industry delegates’ meeting on May 15 condemned the state ALP government’s push to privatise the retail electricity providers and generators and reaffirmed its “total rejection” of the government’s plans. »

Also in #751:


read »International News

  • Afghanistan: Anti-occupation protes...
  • Bolivia: Recall referendums open ne...
  • Britain: Strongman Brown comes unst...
  • Burmese junta gets in some violin p...
  • Bush says starving India eats too m...
  • East Timor thanks Cuba
  • France: Massive high school mobilis...
  • France: May ’68 — Student...
  • Indonesian activist offices attacke...
  • Israel imposes economic crisis on P...
  • Largest Palestinian protest since s...
  • Latin America has ‘created its ow...
  • Lebanon: Not civil war — war a...
  • New Zealand: Broad left party strid...
  • Starving Afghan families sell child...
  • United States: A leftward shift ...
  • United States: Protests against imm...
  • US blocks Cuba-related websites
  • Venezuela stops open-cut and gold m...
  • Zimbabwe: regime cracks down on uni...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • ACT backs down: Support same-sex ma...
  • Bangladesh - the frontline of clima...
  • Campaign against energy sell-off ga...
  • Come camp for climate action!
  • Labor's me-too budget
  • Letter from China
  • Swan's public service `efficiency' ...
  • The coal industry's ace in the hole...
  • The new apartheid for Indigenous Au...
  • Letters: Letters to the edit...
  • Resistance!: Another world i...
  • Our Common Cause: Our Common...

    • read »General

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

    • read »Australian News

  • Ali Humayun wins his freedom
  • Leichhardt Library censors Palestin...
  • Pensioners protest budget's raw dea...
  • Power workers march for pay and con...
  • Sixty years of apartheid Israel
  • Stop Tillegra dam!
  • Students fight for Muslim prayer fa...
  • Teachers reject Iemma's user-pays e...
  • TPVs finally shelved, deportations ...
  • Vigil backs coal protesters
  • Brief: Anti-homophobia prote...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: All the wrong conclu...
  • Review: Pirates saving the w...


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