Headlines from GLW #768, 24 September 2008:

Financial crash: A system in chaos

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 September 2008

The latest chaos on Wall Street — the worst financial upheaval in the US since the 1930s Great Depression — highlights not just the scale of the world financial crisis, but the needless destruction caused by the blind competition at the core of capitalism. »

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Indigenous doctors: intervention a health hazard

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 20 September 2008

AUSTRALIA: In the lead-up to the release of a report from the federal government’s review into the Northern Territory intervention, the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association has blasted the policy. AIDA describes it as discriminatory, damaging to people’s health and completely unable to alter conditions of child abuse or neglect in remote Aboriginal communities. »

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Bolivia: Indigenous government defies US-backed fascists

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 September 2008

Relative calm has returned to Bolivia following a three-week offensive of violence and terrorism launched by the US-backed right-wing opposition denounced by Bolivian President Evo Morales as a “civil coup”. »

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Climate emergency: birth of a new protest movement

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 September 2008

AUSTRALIA: In the room are a chemical engineer from a large mining/energy corporation, a solar energy engineer, a psychiatrist, a veterinarian, an artist and a construction worker. Also present are an ex-Labor Party activist, a Greens candidate in the 2007 election and a socialist student. Where do you find all these people, and more besides, in one room working for the one cause? At a meeting of Melbourne’s Climate Emergency Network (CEN). »

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read »Comment & Analysis

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Let them eat jam

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Turnbull, Rudd and Australian pluto...

Letters: Write On: Letters t...

Resistance!: Revolutionary y...

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Our Common Cause: The Rudd g...

read »Australian News

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Ambos bail up minister

Blacklisted activists behind Gaza b...

Campaign to save Yungaba

Farmers protest against coal

Free the Five campaign launched

Greens gain from ‘imploding
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Huyck Wagmer workers strike for bet...

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Nurses take on multinational compan...

Progressives supported in NSW counc...

Protest against anti-choice bill

Protests for victimised postie

Save the Mary River

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read »Cultural Dissent

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Anti-Flag: powerful and dynamic

The Bones of September