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Headlines from GLW #788, 25 March 2009:


What alternatives to the CPRS?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 March 2009
AUSTRALIA: Climate activists have been campaigning against the government’s so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) long before the exposure legislation was tabled in parliament on March 10. »

Stop the Afghan war — bring the troops home
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009
On the March 16, an Australian soldier, Corporal Matthew Hopkins, died after a fierce battle with Afghan anti-occupation fighters in the Baluchi Valley. »

El Salvador: Left wins historic victory
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 March 2009
“From now begins a new chapter in the history of El Salvador. The victory of the FMLN [Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front] presidential team is based on the whole Salvadoran people”, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, newly elected vice-president for the FMLN, told a cheering crowd of thousands of red T-shirt-wearing party supporters at a huge rally on the night of the March 15 presidential elections. »

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Pakistan: ‘The spirit of March 15’ — pro-democracy movement wins:
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 March 2009
The “long march” of lawyers and pro-democracy activists, who faced-down state repression including hundreds of arrests, won its key demand on March 16 when the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) backed down in the face of huge resistance and, following five days of mass protests, restored the chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry and other sacked judges to their positions. »

Agriculture and climate change
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 March 2009
Australian agriculture both contributes to climate change and is adversely affected by it. Any campaign in to force urgent government action on climate change has to include a demand for the radical transformation of rural land use and farming systems to be ecologically sustainable. »

Sri Lanka: UN hides casualty figures to protect regime
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009
The article below is abridged from http://www.tamilnet.com. »

Venezuela: Mass organisation, unity increases as revolution deepens
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009
“This government is here to protect the people, not the bourgeoisie or the rich”, proclaimed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on February 28, as he ordered soldiers to take over two rice-processing plants owned by Venezuelan food and drink giant Empresas Polar. »

Indigenous Australians speak out at WAC conference
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 21 March 2009
Mitch, an inspiring Arrernte/Luritja author, poet and artist, and an important voice against the NT Intervention, together with Sam Watson, well-known Aboriginal activist, Brisbane community activist and Socialist Alliance national spokesperson on Indigenous rights, will feature on a panel titled “From Invasion to Intervention: Indigenous Australians speak out”. »

Sudan: Justice or a poisoned chalice?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009
After an hour-and-a-half of walking under the intense Sudanese sun, armed with crude maps printed from the internet, we paused before a field of rubble in an industrial area of North Khartoum. »

Gov’t scapegoats migrants, cuts quota
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 March 2009
On March 16, federal immigration minister Chris Evans announced that the Rudd government would cut the skilled migration intake for the current financial year by 18,500. This, claimed Evans in a ministerial statement, would “protect local jobs”. »

Labor locks up more refugees
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 March 2009

Class, not national solutions, to the economic crisis
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 21 March 2009

Mark Steel: So Marx was right after all
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009

G20's pledges will worsen crisis for the poor
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009

Israel’s war on solidarity activists
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009

Martinique general strike ends in victory
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 March 2009

Also in #788:


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  • Cuba: Only US refuses normal relati...
  • El Salvador: ‘A victory for all p...
  • El Salvador: International observer...
  • El Salvador: Left wins historic vic...
  • France: General strike shakes gover...
  • G20's pledges will worsen crisis fo...
  • Iran: International week of solidar...
  • Ireland: Republicans oppose new att...
  • Israel’s war on solidarity act...
  • Madagascar: Systemic crisis underpi...
  • Mark Steel: So Marx was right after...
  • Martinique general strike ends in v...
  • Massive protests against anti-Tamil...
  • Pakistan: ‘The spirit of March...
  • Protest demands troops out
  • Sri Lanka: UN hides casualty figure...
  • Stop the Afghan war — bring the t...
  • Sudan: Justice or a poisoned chalic...
  • Venezuela: Mass organisation, unity...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Agriculture and climate change
  • Behind the Qld oil spill disaster
  • Emirates: doing business in NSW
  • Gov’t scapegoats migrants, cuts q...
  • Justice for Africans
  • Labor locks up more refugees
  • Sack Connex! Boycott Israel!
  • Stop the prison cell-off
  • Unfair work bill passes senate
  • What alternatives to the CPRS?
  • Resistance!: Rudd’s educat...
  • Resistance!: World’s bigge...
  • Our Common Cause: Class, not...

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  • $250,000 GLW Fighting Fund...

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  • Community campaigns against deaths ...
  • Foster’s dispute concludes
  • Gunns drops legal action against Wi...
  • Indigenous Australians speak out at...
  • Mandatory sentencing push condemned...
  • Nuclear waste convoy violates ‘...
  • Brief: Boycott Israel campai...
  • Brief: New England discusses...
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  • Brief: The Maldives pledges ...

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