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Headlines from GLW #796, 27 May 2009:


Greens’ Fremantle win: Can the Greens challenge Labor?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: The victory for Greens candidate Adele Carles in the May 16 by-election for the WA state seat of Fremantle is a breakthrough for the progressive movement and a testament to the Greens’ consistent efforts to raise a left alternative to Labor. »

Palestinian MP on resistance within Israel
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
“We don’t live in the territories, we cannot throw stones and we cannot participate in the legitimate resistance against occupation”, Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) told Green Left Weekly. »

Aboriginal communities under new attack from ALP
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: Schools and clinics in many Aboriginal homelands and outstations are likely to close under proposed changes announced by the Northern Territory government on May 20. »

Sri Lanka: Genocidal war won’t bring peace
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
“Our motherland has been completely liberated from separatist terrorism”, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a May 19 “victory speech” to parliament. He was referring to the military defeat of the pro-independence Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan Army. »

White van abductions and Sri Lanka’s terror regime
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
“Soldiers, our race salutes you!” state the Sinhala-language slogans on huge placards plastered across Sri Lanka’s countryside. »

Genocide in Sri Lanka while Australia looks on
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 23 May 2009
OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA: I am a Sinhalese from the majority community in Sri Lanka, not from the brutalised Tamil community. I have campaigned for five decades for the right of the Tamils to live with equality, dignity and safety in the country of their birth. »



Other Headlines


Nepal: ‘Democrats’ and the struggle for democracy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
Nepal’s political stalemate of sorts continues. »

Rudd’s carbon trading — locking in disaster
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 23 May 2009
Climate scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a disturbing new study on May 19. Without drastic action, the Earth’s surface temperature could rise by 5°C or more by 2100, they said. »

'21st century socialism should be socialism for human development'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
Michael Lebowitz is a Canadian Marxist economist. He is the director of the “Transformative practice and human development” program at the Caracas-based left-wing think tank, the Centro Internacional Miranda. He is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University and author of Build it Now: 21st Century Socialism and the 2004 Isaac Deutscher-prize winning Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class. »

Homophobia is not funny
RESISTANCE!, 23 May 2009
After rugby league commentator and former player Matthew Johns gave an insincere and misdirected apology on The Footy Show on May 7 — preempting the ABC Four Corners program that named Johns as part of an alleged sexual assault in 2002 — Paul “Fatty” Vautin slapped him on the back and declared: “Well said, now let’s get on with the show.” »

Obama continues torture regime
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
“I believe that we must reject torture without equivocation because it does not make us safe, it results in unreliable intelligence, it puts our troops at risk, and it contradicts core American values”, US President Barack Obama said while campaigning for the White House in March last year. »

Afghani feminist MP condemns civilian massacres
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009
Malalai Joya is the youngest elected representative to Afghan’s parliament. In 2007, she was unjustly suspended for “insulting” other members of the parliament. Joya is an opponent of the US-led occupation and a strong supporter of women’s rights. She opposes the brutal, misogynistic polices of both the Taliban and the fundamentalist forces the US have installed. Her memoir, Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, is due to be released later this year. »

African lives — silent casualty of the global economic crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009

Mark Steel: What filthy rich really means
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 May 2009

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  • African lives — silent casualty o...
  • Burma: New charges prove elections ...
  • Cuba: Anti-homophobia day celebrate...
  • Ecuador: Farewell to Transito Amagu...
  • Latin America’s socialist feminis...
  • Mark Steel: What filthy rich really...
  • Nepal: ‘Democrats’ and the stru...
  • Obama continues torture regime
  • Palestinian MP on resistance within...
  • Sri Lanka: Genocidal war won’t br...
  • War veteran to Obama: ‘when will ...
  • White van abductions and Sri Lanka...
  • Brief: Vietnam: Tribunal tel...

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  • Aboriginal communities under new at...
  • Economic crisis may breed forced la...
  • Greens’ Fremantle win: Can the Gr...
  • Health a loser in budget
  • Is Rudd losing his shine?
  • NT intervention based on “big lie...
  • Queers fighting for marriage rights...
  • Rudd’s carbon trading — locking...
  • Tamil youth call for aid, homeland
  • Unions settle West Gate Bridge disp...
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Homophobia is n...
  • Resistance!: Why students sh...
  • Our Common Cause: Genocide i...

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  • NTEU members take strike action
  • Queensland teachers strike for fair...
  • Rail unions oppose station cuts
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