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Headlines from GLW #815, 28 October 2009:


Rudd’s policy is racist — refugees are not illegal
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
The Australian government is getting desperate and showing its true colours. Not long after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd personally intervened to turn away a boat of 260 Tamil refugees in international waters, a second boat — also carrying refugees from Sri Lanka — sent out a distress signal off the coast of Sumatra. »

Poverty, domestic violence: Women bearing brunt of economic crisis
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
A domestic violence shelter in Alice Springs told ABC radio’s AM on May 1 that between January 1 and mid-April this year, it provided accommodation for 157 children and 149 women. However, due to lack of funding, it turned away a further 158 women and 100 children seeking support. »

Climate change: nuclear no answer
EDITORIAL, 25 October 2009
EDITORIAL: The big nuclear push is on. The nuclear industry is trying to re-brand yellowcake as “green”. »

Nuclear debate: For climate, nuclear a neccessity (Barry Brook)
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
Let’s start by establishing some common ground between myself and anti-nuclear campaigners like Jim Green. Green and I both understand the seriousness of the climate crisis and the imperative for a rapid transformation of our energy system to technologies that emit no carbon when generating power. »

Nuclear debate: A dangerous option that won't solve climate change (Jim Green)
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
There are three main problems with the nuclear “solution” to climate change — it is a blunt instrument, a dangerous one, and it is unnecessary. »

Open letter to Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Honduras — please add your name
GENERAL, 11 October 2009
Please ciruclate and add your name to this letter by emailing weekly.greenleft@gmail.com »


Defend Ark Tribe! Defend building workers!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
The Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2009 is scheduled for Senate debate on October 26. The bill would change the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (BCII Act). This would affect the building and construction industry’s watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). »

Honduras: ‘No one here is giving up’ as talks declared dead
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009

The Flame Arabic-language supplement, October 2009
GENERAL, 25 October 2009
With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, Green Left Weekly is proud to publish a regular Arabic language supplement. The Flame covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. The October edition can be read at Links, international journal of socialist renewal. »


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Other Headlines


John Pilger: Britain’s postal strike is the war at home
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 October 2009
The struggle of striking British postal workers against privatisation plans is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. »

Che’s revolutionary example
REVIEW, 25 October 2009
Steven Sodebergh’s epic films, Che Part I & II, give a detailed portrayal of the experience of Argentinean-born socialist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the Cuban revolutionary war and his failed Bolivia campaign that ended in his execution on October 9, 1967. »

Afghanistan: For Uncle Sam, good help is hard to find
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009
Almost eight years after choosing Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan government, Uncle Sam would like to give him a pink slip. »

Britain: Tamils march against concentration camps
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009
The article below is abridged from an October 18 Tamilnet.org report. »

Copenhagen: illusions on the edge of a precipice
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009
Can we expect decent climate policy when most of the decision-making elite are ignorant of the real scientific imperatives, or believe they can negotiate with the laws of physics and chemistry? The answer is bleak, judging by the lead-up talks to the climate summit in Copenhagen in December. »

Sexism and queerphobia’s social basis
RESISTANCE!, 25 October 2009
There are social expectations on everyone, men and women, to act in particular ways based on our sex. This is bad for everyone because it’s stifling, but it’s worse for women and queers. »

Socialist councillor: community activist, socialist, unionist
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 25 October 2009
The Socialist Alliance’s Sam Wainwright was elected to the Fremantle Council on October 17. He was elected with 438 votes (33.44%) and will represent the Hilton ward. »

Reinstating the RDA is hypocrisy
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 October 2009
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin announced in May that the federal Labor government would reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act by the end of October. But she has also said key policies of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) would remain — discriminatory policies that required the suspension of the RDA to be passed. »

Latin America: ALBA summit prioritises planet and poor
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 October 2009

A slow coup in Venezuela
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 October 2009

Venezuela: A steady stream of lies
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009

Basque Country: Repression fails to silence independence movement
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 October 2009

Tertiary union adopts strong climate change policy
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 24 October 2009

Also in #815:


read »International News

  • A slow coup in Venezuela
  • Afghanistan: For Uncle Sam, good he...
  • Basque Country: Repression fails to...
  • Britain: Tamils march against conce...
  • Copenhagen: illusions on the edge o...
  • Copenhagen: mass protests planned
  • Honduras: ‘No one here is giving ...
  • Indonesia: Presidential inauguratio...
  • John Pilger: Britain’s postal str...
  • Latin America: ALBA summit prioriti...
  • Mexico: Workers resist power sell-o...
  • Peru: ‘Free trade’, cocaine and...
  • Venezuela: A steady stream of lies

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Cut minimum wage, says think tank
  • Defend Ark Tribe! Defend building w...
  • Geelong Trades Hall: ‘Howes right...
  • Media beat-up on pulp mill exposed
  • Nuclear debate: A dangerous option ...
  • Nuclear debate: For climate, nuclea...
  • Poverty, domestic violence: Women b...
  • Reinstating the RDA is hypocrisy
  • Rudd’s policy is racist — refug...
  • Terror laws target ‘thought crime...
  • Letters: Greens should re-th...
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Editorial: Climate change: n...
  • Resistance!: Sexism and quee...
  • Our Common Cause: Socialist ...

    • read »General

  • The Flame Arabic-language ...
  • Labor’s shameful refugee policy
  • Open letter to Foreign Minister Ste...

    • read »Australian News

  • 350.org climate actions sweeps worl...
  • Armidale forum supports Latin Ameri...
  • Clive Hamilton to stand for the Gre...
  • Far North ALP opposes privatisation...
  • Fare hikes hurt commuters and clima...
  • Hundreds pay tribute to union legen...
  • Peter Garrett must reject Traveston...
  • Protest defends railways, opposes d...
  • Tertiary union adopts strong climat...
  • West End rallies against over-devel...
  • Brief: No coal, no nuclear
  • Brief: Protest says stop bro...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Balibo: exposing the...
  • Review: Che’s revolutionar...
  • Review: Ecosocialist solutio...


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