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Headlines from GLW #760, 30 July 2008:


Unionists to Rudd: `Where are our rights at work?’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 July 2008
AUSTRALIA: Labor won the November, 2007 federal election on the promise to “tear-up” Work Choices, abolish the hated Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs — individual contracts) and overhaul the entire industrial relations system. Of course, all of this was promised to contain ample consultation and be in the spirit of balance. »

Emissions trading scheme a scam: Renewables now!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 July 2008
AUSTRALIA: Why do we put so much faith in the market to solve environmental problems? Why do we assume that increasing the cost of fossil fuel emissions will reduce their use rather than just increase everyone’s cost of living? »

Latin America’s struggle for integration and independence
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008
Commenting on how much the two had in common — same age, three children, similar music tastes — Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on April 11 that “perhaps we represent the new generation of leaders in Latin America”. »

Cuba: Celebrations of advancing gay rights
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008
Several hundred Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their friends converged at the Mi Cayito section of Guanabo Beach east of Havana on June 14, to celebrate newfound pride and launch “Together with You”. »

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What does Obama have to fear?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008
There’s no way of saying this without sounding a bit pretentious, but I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. And the most instructive person I met may have been a frail old Black woman in a newsagent, who picked up a newspaper with a photo of Barack Obama on it, and thrust it under my nose. »

Bolivia: Tensions rising as vote looms
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008
Tensions and uncertainties continue to rise as what some are calling a bout of “referendumitis” sweeps through Bolivia. »

Sri Lanka: Remembering Black July
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008
Reprinted from http://asia-pacific-action.org. Visit http://blackjuly.info for more information and documentaries. »

Arnhem Land leaders slam ‘wasteful’ NT intervention
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 July 2008
Aboriginal leaders from Arnhem Land met with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on July 23 and called for the restoration of the Racial Discrimination Act. The act was suspended in June 2007 to allow for the passing of the bi-partisan Northern Territory (NT) intervention legislation. »

Venezuela: Heirs of the revolution
RESISTANCE!, 26 July 2008

Iraq: Britain responsible for prisoner abuse
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008

Afghanistan: Increasing bombs, escalating suffering
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008

Prisoner exchanges a defeat for Israel
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008

WTO attacking the poor
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008

Zimbabwe: Socialists call for mobilisations against Mugabe
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 July 2008

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  • Prisoner exchanges a defeat for Isr...
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  • AWU: apologists for polluters?
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