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Green Left Weekly issue #717, 18 July 2007
Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Oh no, ASIO has my student files!

RESISTANCE! My university, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), has given 22 student and staff records to the Australian Federal Police, the NSW police and the Australian Taxation Office. » Our world, our future: fight for socialism!

RESISTANCE! Internationalism was a strong theme of the 36th Resistance conference held in Sydney over July 5-8. Apart from hearing from Julia Espinoza from Socialist Worker in New Zealand and Gusti Galuh Ratna Sari from the Indonesian National Student League for Democracy, the whole conference took part in a se... » Indigenous leader agrees with Maori MP: 'Howard is a racist bastard'

OUR COMMON CAUSE “I completely agree with New Zealand Maori Party MP Hone Harawira that Prime Minister John Howard, by attacking marginalised Aboriginal communities, is a ‘racist bastard’”, Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson said in response to Harawira... » Workers need an independent campaign against Work Choices

PM John Howard and ALP leader Kevin Rudd have both attacked Unions NSW secretary John Robertson for comments, secretly recorded and leaked to the media, made at a Bennelong Your Rights at Work meeting in late June. » Iraq: Howard government admits what we all knew

“Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.” This was how the BBC reported Nelson’s July 5 comments to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the release of a review of Austra... » Federal bill threatens GM moratoriums

A bill recently pushed through federal parliament has the potential to threaten state moratoriums on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by granting new powers to the federal agriculture minister, a WA anti-GMO activist told Green Left Weekly. » Howard’s racist land grab

PM John Howard’s new “intervention” policy in the Northern Territory has begun with federal and state police storming into Indigenous communities. » Gay refugee sues the government

Ali Humayun, the queer Pakistani locked up in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, is suing VIDC management and the federal government for negligence of care. » Permaculture and Marxism

It is often thought that concern for the interconnection of living systems is a modern development. But Karl Marx’s talked about it repeatedly throughout his Capital. » 'Community need, not corporate greed'

“John Howard is more than happy to welcome war criminal George Bush to Sydney in September, but he won’t even give the time of day to struggling workers, such as Botany Cranes union delegate Barry Hemsworth, who is still on the grass more than 300 days after being unfairly sacked”, So... » AMWU elections: the left cleans up

In last month’s elections in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Workers’ Rights team took all positions against a ticket led by an alliance between the union’s print and vehicle divisions. Some Workers’ Rights candidates received over 80% of the vote. In the V... » Dancing against capitalism: Russell Miles (1966-2007)

On June 25, Russell Miles, a proud member of the International Socialist Tendency and widely-loved community activist, ended his life. » Dear Kevin: ‘Unions want a real opposition'

The following is abridged from a letter sent by Dean Mighell, Victorian secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, to ALP leader Kevin Rudd following Mighell’s forced resignation from the party on May 30. » GM push vilifies organics

Recent attacks on the organic food industry are about discrediting it to soften up the public to accept genetically modified (GM) crops, Dr Maggie Lilith of the Conservation Council of WA and the Say No to GMO campaign told Green Left Weekly. » Howard ducks for cover on 457 visa rorts

Pressure from unions over the exploitation of foreign workers employed under the 457 visa scheme for temporary workers has forced the Howard government to tighten some of the regulations. » Labour conference discusses mobilisation

The 10th national Labour History Conference on June 4-6 delved into the labour movement’s past, but also featured interesting debates about present-day concerns. » Palestine: Breaking the siege in Gaza

“We’ve tried to enter Palestine by land. We’ve tried to arrive by air. Now we’re getting serious. We’re taking a ship”. » Salute to Gail Lord (1952-2007)

We mourn our friend and comrade Gail, who lost her valiant battle with cancer on July 2. » Victoria to lift GM ban?

Three years after extending its moratorium on the commercial growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the Victorian ALP government appears poised to remove the ban when it expires in February 2008. »


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