Headlines from GLW #773, 5 November 2008:

Bush is gone, now end the ‘war on terror’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 October 2008

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, US President George Bush declared an open-ended, apparently indefinite “war on terror”. »

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US elections: History is made

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 November 2008

The United States Socialist Worker is maintaining an online election journal and analysis of the November 4 vote. Below is the account posted by SW journalist Alan Maas at 11pm on November 4 on the impact of the victory for Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama, who has become the first African American head of state in a nation founded on slavery and where, only a few decades ago, many African Americans were denied the vote in a number of southern states. »

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Economy, living standards and the debt trap

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 1 November 2008

Financial journalists are earning their bread and butter speculating on the depth of the recession that awaits the world economy. »

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Pilger: NT intervention a new land grab

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 November 2008

With its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news internationally. It ought to be. An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa. »

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Latin American integration — an alternative to capitalist crisis?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 October 2008

The below article is based on a paper presented on October 8 by Eric Toussaint to the international Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis seminar held in Caracas. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes and is abridged from socialist e-journal Links, Links. Toussaint is from the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt. »

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Mulrunji tragedy continues with Wotton declared guilty

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 November 2008

On October 24, Palm Island community leader Lex Wotton was found guilty of “riot with destruction” in a trial where police were accused by the defence counsel of “lying through their teeth”. Wotton is due to be sentenced on November 7. »

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Other Headlines

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‘Capitalism has reached its li...

African resistance to global financ...

Bolivia: Compromise agreement allow...

Bolivia: US intervention exposed

Bush is gone, now end the ‘war on...

Cuba: UN votes again to end blockad...

In Africa, a tale of two bailouts

Latin American integration — an a...

Ongoing instability in East Timor

Sri Lanka: War on Tamils escalates

United States: New Kissinger transc...

US elections: History is made

Venezuela: ‘Our votes are for ...

West Papua: Thousands brave militar...

read »Comment & Analysis

Australian government’s refugee p...

Brookland Greens: bad laws and deve...

Defend our homelands!

Economy, living standards and the d...

Environmental crisis — sustainabl...

Give the bankers a break

Mulrunji tragedy continues with Wot...

NSW teachers: protect salaries and ...

Pilger: NT intervention a new land ...

Scrap the ‘anti-terror’ laws!

Turkish socialist: ’Join the figh...

Yuendumu residents: ‘We want s...

Letters: Write On: letters t...

Resistance!: Democracy ... U...

Resistance!: Young Liberals�...

Our Common Cause: Not so sup...

read »General

Green Left Weekly’s $250...

The Flame: Arabic language...

read »Australian News

‘Reclaim the night!’

‘Washo here to stay!’

Attempt to gag free speech defeated...

Community unites for sustainable tr...

Construction collapse in Canberra

Corporate greed destroying human cu...

ETS modelling ignores climate peril...

Protests demand: Free Lex Wotton

Say no to GMO!

Scrap the ABCC!

Tamil struggle: ‘More solidari...

Victorian water campaigners unite

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: Socialist versus cap...

Review: Surviving the nights...

Review: When water isn’...

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