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Headlines from GLW #794, 10 May 2009:


Kevin Rudd embraces climate suicide
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: PM Kevin Rudd’s announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) has again split the climate movement, and this time it’s very serious, with three large, rusted-on-to-Labor groups running cover for an appalling policy that won’t guarantee a reduction in Australian emissions for decades. »

No war budget! Money for people and planet!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: Ask an average Australian what they might hope the federal government would spend $300 billion on and the answer would hopefully be vast investment in new jobs and services, given we’re heading into recession, and reducing Australia’s climate change impact. »

Tamils and the media's rape of truth
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
When it comes to reporting on the situation for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, with no reporters on the ground to witness the Sri Lankan Army’s carnage, newspapers like the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald suddenly discover “reliable information” on what the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are up to! »

Nepal: The people resist elite coup
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
“This is not just a Maoist movement”, Green Left Weekly’s correspondent in Kathmandu, Ben Peterson, said on the struggle that has erupted in Nepal. “This is threatening to become a new people’s movement, like the one that swept away the monarchy.” »



Other Headlines


Always march in the streets and never give in!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 May 2009
This is an abridged version of the speech given to the Wollongong May Day march on May 2 by Fred Moore. »

Venezuelan workers march in march in ‘battle for socialism’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
A huge mobilisation of up to a million workers took place in Caracas on May 1 — the international workers’ day. »

Boycott Israel campaign starts to bite
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
Motorola, Caterpillar, Veolia, the Tesco supermarket chain, and other companies across the world that do business with Israel are suffering losses due to a global boycott in support of Palestinian rights. »

To save planet, end capitalism, Morales says
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
Bolivian President Evo Morales called a special press conference in New York on April 22. The UN general assembly had passed a motion put by Bolivia’s radical, pro-poor government to make that day “International Mother Earth Day”. »

Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009
On May 6 and 7, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari was in Washington to exchange platitudes with US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. »

Rudd’s unfair ‘earn or learn’ crackdown
RESISTANCE!, 8 May 2009
PM Kevin Rudd has announced plans for a scheme that will deny youth allowance to unemployed people under 20 years old, unless they are at school or engaged in full-time vocational training. »

Workers to bear budget pain
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 8 May 2009
The federal budget will be presented to parliament by Treasurer Wayne Swan on May 12. While Swan has been officially tight-lipped about its contents, he has already released significant details about the cuts to programs and government jobs the budget will hand down. »

Venezuela, Cuba reject US ‘terror’ label
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2009

Also in #794:


read »International News

  • Afghanistan: US civilian massacre s...
  • Boycott Israel campaign starts to b...
  • Canadian academics support Tamil se...
  • El Salvador: Protests block parliam...
  • France: More strikes and protests p...
  • Iran: Workers arrest at May Day pro...
  • Malaysia: Police invade state parli...
  • Nepal: The people resist elite coup...
  • Pakistan: Workers and peasants resi...
  • Palestine:‘Watered down’ UN rep...
  • Panama: Millionaire wins elections,...
  • Peru: Indigenous uprising deepens
  • Sri Lanka: 2000 civilians feared ki...
  • Sri Lanka: Elderly women starve in ...
  • Tamils and the media's rape of trut...
  • To save planet, end capitalism, Mor...
  • Venezuela, Cuba reject US ‘terror...
  • Venezuela: New pharmaceutical plant...
  • Venezuelan workers march in march i...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • ACF — ‘You lack a credibl...
  • Always march in the streets and nev...
  • Australian academics urge boycott o...
  • ‘Crisis accommodation at crisis p...
  • Climate groups condemn gov’t
  • Kevin Rudd embraces climate suicide...
  • No war budget! Money for people and...
  • Nuclear weapons and ’fourth ge...
  • Performance pay has no place in pub...
  • Steel union protects bosses’ prof...
  • Workers losing under Labor’s IR l...
  • Workers to bear budget pain
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Rudd’s unf...
  • Our Common Cause: Rudd gambl...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $...

    • read »Australian News

  • Fair fares now!
  • Fremantle by-election gets interest...
  • Rail cutbacks looming
  • Students for Palestine supports Tam...
  • Tamil hunger strike shut down
  • Venezuela’s revolution discussed
  • Brief: Anti-nuclear campaign...
  • Brief: Big business to plane...
  • Brief: Federal Court defends...
  • Brief: Forest camp raided
  • Brief: Melbourne May Day toa...
  • Brief: No troops to Afghanis...
  • Brief: Tamils boost May Day ...
  • Brief: Tamils join May Day
  • Brief: Tas uni refuses to ne...
  • Brief: Tax office protest ra...
  • Brief: Trade unionists clima...

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