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Green Left Weekly issue #718, 25 July 2007
Letters to the Editor

LETTERS George Bush is not welcome here! Join the student day of action!

RESISTANCE! Organising is well under way for protests during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney in September, to which PM John Howard will be welcoming his war criminal mate, US President George Bush. » The inspiring truth about Che Guevara

RESISTANCE! As the world’s most recognisable symbol of struggle and liberation, Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s image seems to become more popular every year. Even the Weekend Australian, a mouthpiece of Australia’s ruling class, put Che on its front page on July 14 to grab potential buyers... » Our Common Cause: Venezuela reviving socialism

OUR COMMON CAUSE [Abridged from a presentation by Raul Bassi, on behalf of the Socialist Alliance, to a conference hosted by the Venezuelan embassy in Sydney on July 7.] » Two roads for our health-care system

CASE FOR SOCIALISM The media hysteria over a possible Australian link to the recent British terror attacks serves to highlight a basic reality: the Australian healthcare system is critically dependent on overseas-trained doctors and it wouldn’t work without them. » Reject Howard’s climate swindle

On July 17, PM John Howard’s climate change policy was released amidst great fanfare. For most of his political career, Howard has denied the link between climate change and human industry, and the threat that it poses to the planet and society. Now the scientific evidence is irrefutable he has... » Pulp mill battle rages

Four thousand timber workers and their families attended a rally in Launceston in support of the controversial Bell Bay pulp mill on July 19. The Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) called the rally as part of a one-day stop-work action aimed at “combating the threat to job... » Academics determined to defeat QUT censorship

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) academic Dr Gary MacLennan told a public meeting on July 18 that “ordinary people think laughing at the disabled is wrong … only in a university is it seen as otherwise”. » Ford delegate: `We don't want Mickey Mouse jobs'

On July 18, Ford Australia president Tom Gorman announced that Ford's Geelong engine plant would close in 2010, putting 600 workers out of work. Geelong Trades Hall Council's Union Air radio show interviewed Australian Manufacturing Workers Union vehicle division delegate plant Tony Anderson. » Live Earth and Al Gore’s oil connection

The corporate media has heaped praise on Al Gore following the international rock gig Live Earth. But to ask the U’wa people, from the tropical cloud forests of north-eastern Colombia, what they thought about Gore and Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), the oil company from which his personal fortune i... » Murdoch's corporate home invasion

Below is an abridged speech given by Lawrence Gibbons, editor of the City Hub, a part of the Alternative Media Group, to a benefit for the South Sydney Herald on July 8. » Murray-Darling water disaster escalates

The July 1 Sydney Morning Herald reported that the “southern part of the Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new irrigation year begins on Sunday… Howard’s grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July ... » NT Aborigines oppose Howard intervention plan

PM John Howard announced on June 28 that his government was “taking control” of up to 80 remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, claiming this was a necessary response to the 320-page Little Children are Sacred report, which detailed high levels of sexual abuse of children on a ... » Renewables, not nuclear: Socialist Alliance's climate action plan

The Socialist Alliance is aiming for a 60% overall emissions reduction, including 95% power station emissions reduction, by 2020 and a 90% overall emissions reduction by 2030. Immediate comprehensive planning is required, including the setting of annual targets, to meet these overall targets on time... » Samantha Kelly (1968-2007)

The peace movement lost a dedicated activist last week. Samantha Kelly, one of a team of radio presenters for NoWar SA, died in Adelaide at the age of 39. »


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