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Green Left Weekly issue #731, 14 November 2007
Housing: a right not a privilege

RESISTANCE! I tell them “turn on the water” I tell ’em “turn on the heat” Tells me “All you ever do is complain” Then they search the place when I’m not here But we can, you know we can Let’s lynch the landlord man — Dead Kennedys » Solidarity with the Pakistani people

RESISTANCE! Resistance stands in solidarity with the Pakistani people fighting for democracy and the removal of the Musharraf regime. Thousands of people have defied the ban on demonstrations to protest against “emergency rule” and the dictatorial regime. » Aboriginal voters will abandon the Labor Party in droves

OUR COMMON CAUSE Aboriginal voters will abandon the Labor Party in droves and vote for the minor parties on election day, because of the failure of Kevin Rudd to offer any real alternatives to the dictatorial and racist policies of the Howard government. » The corporate interests behind Howard's land grab

Les Malezer, chair of the UN Global Indigenous Caucus, which was responsible for drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, spoke to a packed meeting in the Redfern community centre on October 28. “Our wealth is that of our Indigenous values: land, culture and spirit”,... » Legislating racism

AUSTRALIA As the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention grinds on with an escalating price-tag and concomitant obfuscation from politicians and bureaucrats about its actual implementation, we are beginning to see media reports — especially from the rampantly pro-intervention Rupert Mur... » Kerry Nettle: `A crucial turning point'

AUSTRALIA KERRY NETTLE has been a NSW Greens senator since 2001. She spoke to Green Left Weekly’s PIP HINMAN about what the Greens had achieved, and why it was critical that they hold the balance of power in the new Senate. » Work Choices II: Howard's real agenda

In a striking piece of political theatre, on November 5 federal workplace ogre Joe Hockey promised to resign from a re-elected Howard ministry if the government changed Work Choices (significantly). “They can run all the scare campaigns they want”, Hockey said, “but the bottom line is if we ar... » Has Rudd's anti-unionism handed Howard a lifeline?

Labor leader Kevin Rudd and IR spokesperson Julia Gillard have fallen into the trap set for them by PM John Howard. By accepting the need to crack down on unionists in order to make Labor look respectable to big business, Rudd and Gillard have given credibility to the Coalition’s witch-hunt abo... » Behind the blather Ken Fry, 1920-2007

“When Ken Fry came back from a funeral several years ago he complained that one of the speakers ’went on about the bloke as though he was a blessed saint … I hope they don’t go on about me like that when I go …’.” » On the socialist campaign trail People's power revolution needs your solidarity

The idea that we build something much better than capitalism had been around for generations but, 90 years ago in Russia, for the first time an alliance of workers and peasants made a revolution that was to frame the course of history ever since » Support Pakistan’s democracy movement!

The following appeal for solidarity with the Pakistani people’s struggle for democracy has been initiated by Melbourne civil liberties lawyer Rob Stary. » Two years without trial for 22 Muslim men

For two years 13 Muslim men from Melbourne, have been held in Barwon prison near Geelong and nine men from Sydney in Goulburn’s super-max prison without trial. »


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