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Green Left Weekly issue #728, 24 October 2007
Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Resistance and the struggle for a free Burma

RESISTANCE! Resistance is an active, campaigning organisation. We’re in there where the struggle is. We don’t just talk about standing up for the oppressed. We actually do it. Recently, we met members of the Burmese community in Canberra at a series of protests outside the Burmese embassy. When we met... » Cutting off voting to disenfranchise youth

RESISTANCE! The Howard government’s changes to electoral legislation, passed last year, will mean a large portion of young people who are of voting age will be left off the electoral roll for the November 24 federal election. This legislation — an obvious move to bar certain voters from the politica... » Students plan walkout against pulp mill

RESISTANCE! Tasmanian high school, college and university students are planning to walk out of class on November 1 to protest federal environment minister Malcom Turnbull’s approval of the Gunns’ pulp mill. » `Send the Burmese military regime into the dustbins of history!

RESISTANCE! @body intro = My name is Ayi Layah Mon and I am a member of the Mon Youth Group. » Build the vote for Socialist Alliance!

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA As the 2007 federal election gets underway, an odd trend is showing up in the opinion polls. After eleven-and-a-half years of Coalition government and an ALP “opposition” that stood “shoulder to shoulder” with it in so many of its crimes, the combined vote for the two “parties of governmen... » Howard's agenda: private feast, public famine

In his frantic bid to secure a fifth consecutive election victory for the Coalition, Prime Minister John Howard has fired up the amp and is loudly proclaiming his message that growth and increased private wealth will solve all problems. Howard is presenting his message — pump-primed by a lavish... » Threats to deport Ali Humayun

Ali Beg Humayun was threatened with deportation by the immigration department (DIAC) on October 8. Humayun, a queer Pakistani man, has been locked up for over two-and-a-half years in the Villawood detention centre and is currently appealing a Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) decision not to grant him r... » 'Remember David's death by pulling out the troops

The Socialist Alliance’s anti-war campaign coordinator, Pip Hinman, has offered her condolences to the family of trooper David Pearce, recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province. » Behind the blather

In the lead-up to the federal election, here’s a guide to what’s really happening in the Liberal and Labor camps, as well as anecdotes from the Socialist Alliance’s campaign trail. » Liberal and Labor hypocrisy on nurses' dispute

Victoria’s nurses are fighting three enemies: the state Labor government, the hospital administrations, and the federal Coalition government. » Liberal and Labor hypocrisy on nurses' dispute

Victoria’s nurses are fighting three enemies: the state Labor government, the hospital administrations, and the federal Coalition government. » Howard's "reconciliation" cynicism

On October 12, PM John Howard announced his plan to hold a referendum to alter the preamble to the Australian constitution to include an acknowledgment of the original inhabitants of Australia. This is a departure from Howard’s historic position against “symbolic” gestures of reconciliation ... » Landmark IR court hearing to begin

A landmark Federal Court hearing for 96 Western Australian construction workers that begins on October 24 is the most dramatic demonstration yet of the impact of the Howard government’s draconian IR laws. » David Matthews — 1927-2007

The socialist movement lost a strong supporter with the death from cancer of David Matthews — my father — on September 30 at the age of 79. David joined the Socialist Alliance soon after its formation and remained a financial member and a strong supporter of the campaign to bring the fract... » Global warming, biofuels worsen world hunger

On October 16, events in more than 150 countries marked World Food Day, which commemorates the founding of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, with the theme of “the right to food”. » War, revolution and the birth of the Communist International

During the upsurge of working-class and liberation struggles that followed the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialists from all continents joined in founding a world party, the Communist International, or “Comintern”. »


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