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Headlines from GLW #776, 26 November 2008:


Indigenous activist speaks: Outback communities and the nuclear industry
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 November 2008
Jillian Marsh is a member of the Adnyamathanha community in the Flinders Ranges and active in the Australian Nuclear-Free Alliance. She recently traveled to Germany to receive the 2008 Nuclear-Free Future award, and is writing a thesis entitled A look at the approval of Beverley Mine and the ways that decisions are made when mining takes place in Adnyamathanha country. Marsh spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Peter Robson about the expansion of the nuclear industry in South Australia and the Northern Territory. »

Noel Washington: Defend unions, abolish the ABCC
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 November 2008
Noel Washington is a senior vice-president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in Victoria. He has been a union organiser for 27 years. On December 2, simply for doing his job well, he faces a possible jail sentence under laws supported by the federal Labor government. »

Editorial: Rudd’s first year — style over substance
EDITORIAL, 23 November 2008
EDITORIAL: The first 12 months of Kevin Rudd’s federal Labor government have proved to be a continuation of the conservative, pro-war and anti-environmental politics of the Howard years. »

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Can Africa survive Obama’s advisors?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 November 2008
One of US president-elect Barack Obama’s leading advisers has done more damage to Africa, its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world history, including even Cecil John Rhodes. »

Venezuela: Pro-Chavez win majority seats, lose some key positions
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 November 2008
President Hugo Chavez’s governing party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), got mixed results in the regional and local elections held on November 23, winning strongly in 17 out of 23 states, but losing the country’s two most populous states and the Capital District of Caracas. »

The US role in Somalia’s misery
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 November 2008
Outgoing US President George Bush has often stated that history will be the rightful judge of his legacy. Some academics, such as John Lewis Gaddis and Fareed Zakaria, have already begun early revisions to the Bush years. »

United States: The bailout farce
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 November 2008
The much-hyped US$700 billion bailout for the banks has become a grab-bag of policies and giveaways to corporations of all sorts as the Bush administration reels under the pressure of collapsing stock prices, frozen credit markets and skyrocketing unemployment. »

Venezuela: Socialist campaign gathers momentum as vote nears
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 November 2008
At a mass rally of PSUV activists in the Poliedro Stadium on November 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for “Operation Round Up” to gather the maximum number of votes for candidates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the November 23 elections for state governors and municipal mayors. »

Obama pledges to close Guantanamo
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 November 2008
On November 16, in his first interview since his election victory, US president-elect Barack Obama told the CBS program 60 Minutes that his administration would close the notorious US concentration camp on the illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo Bay, and end the use of torture. »

Zimbabwe: Struggle against dictatorship and social crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 November 2008

Ecuador: Mining, debt and indigenous struggles
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 November 2008

Iraq: Pact to continue occupation signed
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 November 2008

Also in #776:


read »International News

  • Agrofuels: are we winning?
  • Basque activist fights extradition
  • Burma: ‘Only 65 years?’
  • Can Africa survive Obama’s adviso...
  • Ecuador: Mining, debt and indigenou...
  • Fidel Castro on G20 summit: “B...
  • Gaza’s fisherpeople attacked
  • Iraq: Pact to continue occupation s...
  • Obama pledges to close Guantanamo
  • The US role in Somalia’s misery
  • Three proud athletes in Mexico
  • United States: The bailout farce
  • Venezuela: Chavez calls for ‘revo...
  • Venezuela: Pro-Chavez win majority ...
  • Venezuela: Socialist campaign gathe...
  • Zimbabwe: Struggle against dictator...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Climate change movement: Involve, e...
  • Indigenous activist speaks: Outback...
  • Labor, Liberal candidates unite aga...
  • Noel Washington: Defend unions, abo...
  • Oil giants talk tax to kill environ...
  • Public sector workers debate fightb...
  • SKA TV turns 20
  • The coal industry's latest greenwas...
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Defend our publ...
  • Editorial: Editorial: Rudd...
  • Resistance!: The student hou...
  • Our Common Cause: Redesignin...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $...
  • Corrections

    • read »Australian News

  • ‘Blue-collar workers are not t...
  • ‘Deduct ABCC fines from fundin...
  • Academic discusses IR laws, unions
  • ALP extends welfare quarantining to...
  • Drought-proof our parks: socialist ...
  • Families for a nuclear-free future
  • NT language policy condemned
  • Pacific Islander speaks on climate ...
  • Socialist launches book on unionism...
  • Teachers fight NSW gov’t over ...
  • Union defend tertiary education
  • WA gives go ahead for uranium minin...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: A moving portrayal o...
  • Review: Watch the worms squi...
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