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Headlines from GLW #793, 6 May 2009:


Tamils speak out against genocide
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: In an act of peaceful civil disobedience, more than 500 Tamils occupied George Street in Sydney’s CBD for more than an hour. The May 1 action protested the genocide being carried out by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people in the north and east of the country. »

Swine fever: How corporate power threatens health
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009
The hordes of US students on spring break returned from Cancun this year with an invisible but sinister souvenir. »

Video on Nepal’s coup and the mass resistance
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 May 2009
This is a video explaining the current situation in Nepal and providing a glimpse into the mass resistance on the streets to the elite’s "soft coup" to bring down the Maoist-led elected government »

Support demcracy, support the Nepalese people! Solidarity statement
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 May 2009
Statement by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, May 5, 2009. www.dsp.org.au »


Abortion: a woman’s choice
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: On March 21, Anna Bligh’s election victory night, she answered a question from a journalist about how it felt to be the first female premier to be elected in Australia. She suggested the snide remarks made when she was a young woman, about Queensland being a “backward” state, could now be laid to rest. »

Rudd’s hypocrisy is killing people
EDITORIAL, 2 May 2009
EDITORIAL, AUSTRALIA: On April 29, PM Kevin Rudd announced an extra 450 troops would be sent to Afghanistan to participate in the latest US-led “surge”. »

Peru: Amazonian indigenous people rise up
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009
“Since April 9, an uprising has been occurring in the Peruvian countryside involving the Amazonian indigenous peoples from 1350 communities and a diversity of ethnicities”, said legendary peasant leader, Hugo Blanco in an important message. A translation of Blanco’s appeal for solidarity with this so-far mostly unreported struggle is printed below. »

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Other Headlines


Nepal: ‘The changes don’t belong to a party, but to the poor’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009
I recently spent a week talking to people in Rolpa, an especially underdeveloped hilly district in Nepal’s mid-western region. »

Thousands protest ABCC
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 May 2009
Thousands of workers across the country rallied on April 28, including more that 15,000 in Melbourne. The rallies protested the Rudd government’s maintenance of the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), which was established by the previous government of John Howard. »

Boats a last resort — let them stay
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 2 May 2009
The government and most of the mainstream media want Australia to believe we are facing a “surge” of asylum seekers, threatening Australian borders as they arrive in dangerous and non-seaworthy boats. »

Pakistan: The latest victims of the ‘the war on terror’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009
On April 29, Prime Minster Kevin Rudd’s government announced the deployment of 450 extra soldiers to Afghanistan, bringing the Australian contingent to 1550. This is part of an overall increase in foreign troops taking part in the US-led occupation. »

Workers stand strong in West Gate dispute
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 2 May 2009

South Africa: Zuma presidency: New era or business as usual?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009

Castro to Obama: ‘Free Cuban political prisoners’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009

Venezuela combats crisis by fighting corruption, bureaucracy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 May 2009

Also in #793:


read »International News

  • Bolivia, Paraguay settle 74-year bo...
  • Castro to Obama: ‘Free Cuban poli...
  • Ecuador: Correa says re-election ...
  • Ireland: Basque activist to fight e...
  • Israel: More attacks on internal di...
  • Locals fight mining in Ecuador’s ...
  • Mexico: Swine flu, health and profi...
  • Nepal: ‘The changes don’t belon...
  • Pakistan: The latest victims of the...
  • Peru: Amazonian indigenous people r...
  • Peru: Destructive Amazonian highway...
  • South Africa: Zuma presidency: New ...
  • Sri Lanka: Army steps up attack
  • Sri Lanka: Brutal slaughter of Tami...
  • Support demcracy, support the Nepal...
  • Swine fever: How corporate power th...
  • Venezuela combats crisis by fightin...
  • Venezuela: Peruvian relations strai...
  • Video on Nepal’s coup and the mas...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Abortion: a woman’s choice
  • All foreign troops should leave Afg...
  • Australian brigade sees Venezuela...
  • Boats a last resort — let them st...
  • Can the Greens snatch a win in Frem...
  • Greens and socialist candidates spe...
  • New laws gut workplace safety
  • Tamils speak out against genocide
  • Thousands protest ABCC
  • Traditional owners agree to Kimberl...
  • Letters: Write on — let...
  • Resistance!: ’You fail ...
  • Editorial: Rudd’s hypocris...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $250...

    • read »Australian News

  • ‘We want unions of our choice ...
  • Anti-desal protesters target plant ...
  • CFMEU considers Israel boycott
  • For a green-collar future
  • May Day: ‘We must never give u...
  • Rudd adds billions to war spending
  • Workers stand strong in West Gate d...
  • Brief: Boycott causing Israe...
  • Brief: Brown: Greens want to...
  • Brief: NSW Abortion law refo...
  • Brief: Save the Loft
  • Brief: Victorian unis gear u...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Darwin’s strugg...
  • Review: Investigating the to...
  • Papalote goes bush again
  • Papalote goes bush again


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