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Green Left Weekly issue #754, 11 June 2008
Public transport: tinkering not enough

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA Hasn’t the Victorian state government noticed that climate change is speeding up alarmingly and that transport is the fastest growing cause of greenhouse emissions in Australia? » Rudd vindicates anti-war movement — bring all the troops home

AUSTRALIA On June 2, while announcing the withdrawal of 550 Australian combat troops from Iraq, PM Kevin Rudd told parliament that all the arguments justifying the troop deployment in the first place were lies. This vindicates the anti-war movement’s position since the 2003 invasion. » Workers and environmentalists need a new alliance

AUSTRALIA Like many others, I cut my activist teeth during the Franklin River campaign of the early 1980s. Like thousands of others, I joined the blockades in south west Tasmania and, like hundreds of others, was arrested for my troubles and spent a week in Risdon Jail. » The politics of food

AUSTRALIA When 72-year-olds take their shirts off in anger on a cold winter’s day in Melbourne, you know something is wrong. Seriously wrong. » From Hanson to Camden: Australia’s racist shame

AUSTRALIA “The thought of our beautiful Camden accommodating to this religion is a disgrace … This Islamic school will change the town forever”, “Hayley”, a Camden resident, was quoted by the November 6 Sydney Morning Herald as saying in relation to an attempt to build an Islamic school in the far-o... » ‘Guest worker’ schemes = super-exploitation even under Rudd Labor

AUSTRALIA Twenty-first century capitalism has sentenced millions of workers to near slavery in the form of various migrant labour schemes that underpin the mega profits of many giant corporations. From Singapore to Dubai to the US, such schemes spell super-exploitation. So would a “guest worker” sc... » Come to the Resistance national conference!

AUSTRALIA Green Left Weekly asked these Resistance activists what they hope to get out of the national conference in Sydney later this month. » Solidarity brigade fosters links and forges friendships

AUSTRALIA In a country where the balance of power is tipping away from bosses and towards ordinary workers, Venezuela's annual May 1 labour celebration holds great significance. It has been declared a national holiday. » Palestine’s struggle against 60 years of Israeli brutality

May marked 60 years since the formation of the state of Israel. Resistance, the socialist youth, organised a national tour of Israeli peace activist Isaac Suisha. Green Left Weekly’s Ewan Saunders spoke to Suisha, who grew up in Israel. »


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