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Headlines from GLW #783, 18 February 2009:


Bushfires — just chance, or climate change?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 February 2009
AUSTRALIA: With Victoria’s bushfire holocaust now confirmed as Australia’s worst-ever natural disaster, people are reasonably asking: are these events linked to climate change? »

Europe in revolt: people power vs corporate crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2009
Europe has all but exploded into the new year with a growing fightback against the policies that caused economic crisis across the continent. Millions of protesters are beginning to take on those responsible for the capitalist meltdown. »

Latin America: The rebirth of socialism and revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
Luis Bilbao is an Argentine socialist currently based in Venezuela. He is the editor of the Latin America-wide magazine America XXI and is a central participant in the construction of the mass-based United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party initiated by President Hugo Chavez to help unite Venezuela’s revolutionary forces to push for the construction of a “socialism of the 21st century”. »

Rudd, Keynes and the economic crisis
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 14 February 2009
AUSTRALIA: In a 7000-word essay published in the February Monthly magazine , Prime Minister Kevin Rudd blames neoliberalism for the global economic crisis. »

Israel’s racist ethnic cleansing
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
As of February 12, it was still unclear who will end up forming the next Israeli government following the February 10 parliamentary elections, with negotiations to form a new ruling coalition possibly continuing for six weeks. »

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Sri Lanka: Hospitals bombed, civilians massacred
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
Sri Lankan Air Force bombers destroyed the Ponnampalam Memorial Hospital in the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in northern Sri Lanka on February 6. According to Tamilnet.com, 61 patients were killed in the attack. »

Climate emergency or a crisis of democracy?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 February 2009
When the authorities put the figures together, the death rates in Melbourne and Adelaide due to the recent heat wave will show a spike in response to the record temperatures over Eastern Australia. »

After 'yes' victory', Chavez pledges more moves to 'socialist democracy'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 February 2009
After it was officially announced that the “yes” vote had won the February 15 referendum on a constitutional amendment that would remove limits on the number of times any elected official could stand in elections for public office with 54.4% of the vote, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivered a speech from the balcony of the Miraflores Presidential Palace, his two daughters beside him. The victory removes the current two-term limit will allow Chavez to stand in the presidential election when his current term finishes at the end of 2012. »

Venezuela: The significance of the referendum
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
On February 15, Venezuelans vote in a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment that will allow for any candidate to stand for any elective office, without restriction on the number of terms they may serve. »

Venezuela: Opposition campaigns with slander, violence
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
The international and domestic campaign against the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez has dramatically escalated in the lead up to the February 15 referendum to remove the restriction on elected official standing for office if they have already served two terms. »

‘Self-determination has been shattered’
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 February 2009
The following is an open letter to Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin regarding the Northern Territory intervention. The letter was signed by the Prescribed Area People’s Alliance delegation to Canberra and presented to Macklin and others on February 4, 2009. »

Bolivia: Refounding a nation
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009
The historic struggle for national liberation, economic sovereignty, and the “refoundation” of Bolivia on the basis of justice for the impoverished indigenous majority achieved an important milestone on January 25, with the approval of the new Political Constitution of the State (CPE) by 61.43%. »

Latin American revolution comes to Sydney
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 14 February 2009
The unfolding Latin American revolution and the call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build “socialism of the 21st century” will be big features of the “World at a Crossroads” conference to be held in Sydney over the Easter weekend. »

France: New Anti-capitalist Party founded
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2009

Philippines: Urban poor join new left party
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009

Haiti: Foreign occupation increases suffering
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 February 2009

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  • Canada: University strike suppresse...
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  • France: New Anti-capitalist Party f...
  • France’s Left Party: “Revolutio...
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  • Ireland: Pat Finucane — time f...
  • Israel’s racist ethnic cleansi...
  • Latin America: The rebirth of socia...
  • New Zealand: March against massacre...
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  • Sri Lanka: Hospitals bombed, civili...
  • Venezuela: Opposition campaigns wit...
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