Headlines from GLW #756, 25 June 2008:

Big Oil — enemy of people and planet

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 June 2008

The latest surge in the spot price of crude oil (to US$139 a barrel — 87.4 cents a litre) dramatises the urgent need for society to wean itself off “black gold”. The longer we remain hooked the greater the devastation both to our environment and to the living standards of millions, especially the poorest peoples of the planet. »

---

Peace requires justice — end the Gaza siege

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 June 2008

PALESTINE: Despite raids by Israel that left six people dead in the Gaza Strip and numerous rockets launched by Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad the previous day, a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza took effect on June 19. At the official start of the ceasefire at 6am, both sides appeared to be holding the truce. »

---

Venezuela and the change of eras

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 June 2008

VENEZUELA: Fred Fuentes, who has spent a year working in Venezuela, will be a special guest speaker at the Resistance National Conference in Sydney, June 27-29. Green Left Weekly’s Trent Hawkins caught up with Fuentes just before he left Caracas for Australia. »

---

Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 June 2008

Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. Green Left Weekly published the first part in #750. Both parts are reprinted from http://socialistvoice.ca. The author edits http://climateandcapitalism.com. »

---

Venezuela: What a pro-worker government looks like

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 June 2008

VENEZUELA: This year’s May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela, the seventh brigade from Australia to be organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), had 12 participants representing various unions. One of those was Chris Spindler, an organiser for the Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU). Spindler was sent on the brigade as an official AMWU representative, to report back on how the Bolivarian revolution being led by President Hugo Chavez’s government was improving the lives of workers and the poor. On June 11, the Victorian AMWU voted to affiliate to the AVSN and to send a message of solidarity and congratulations to the workers of the giant steel plant Sidor — which was nationalised in April following a long struggle by its workforce. Green Left Weekly’s Trent Hawkins spoke to Spindler about the his impressions of the revolution. »

---

CFMEU official charged for non-compliance

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 21 June 2008

Noel Washington, vice-president of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), is to appear before the Geelong Magistrates Court on August 8 for refusing to attend a compulsory Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) hearing. »

---

Green Left Weekly's $250, 000 Fighting Fund: winter fiesta takes us over $100,000

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 20 June 2008

---

GLW taking a one-week break

GENERAL, 25 June 2008

---

Other Headlines

Also in #756:

read »International News

Bolivian ‘Minister of death
...

Britain: ‘Humiliating victory&...

Capitalism, agribusiness and the fo...

Chavez threatens to cut Europe’s ...

Evo to EU: Stop attacks on migrants...

Iranian sugar workers struggle, sol...

Ireland: The people have spoken

Malaysia: Fuel heats governmental c...

Peace requires justice — end the ...

Philippines: Dealing with the oil c...

Solomon Islands: Cuban doctors a &#...

The three social forces to stop cli...

United States: Cuban Five appeal di...

Venezuela: What a pro-worker govern...

Zimbabwe: Behind ‘Comrade’ ...

read »Comment & Analysis

Big Oil — enemy of people and pla...

Business gains in National Employme...

Every 10 minutes to everywhere

No more subsidies to vehicle indust...

NSW energy privatisation: Labor rat...

SoS: strengthening the radical envi...

The big read: Six of the 'best' Lab...

The pope is wrong -- put a condom o...

Venezuela and the change of eras

Our Common Cause: A modest p...

read »General

GLW taking a one-week brea...

read »Australian News

Activists challenge Marrickville co...

AMA withdraws from NT intervention

CFMEU official charged for non-comp...

Climate movement: ‘let’s get se...

Clipsal to sack 200 workers, close ...

Cuba walks the walk in global healt...

Deported Chinese refugee commits su...

Friday the 13th -- a bad day for de...

Global warming and climate refugees...

Green Left Weekly's $250, 000 Fight...

Herons Creek power station canned

Higher education union launches nat...

Jack Thomas faces new trial

More delays for Gunns' pulp mill

Protesters target coal criminals

Protests demand: End the NT interve...

Why is Australia still mistreating ...

Wollongong anti-corruption group di...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: A microcosm of the I...

Review: Meet the new boss, s...

Review: Paul Toohey: Mixed m...