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Green Left Weekly issue #758, 16 July 2008
Write On: Letters to the editor

LETTERS Workers and students: can we make a revolution?

RESISTANCE! The following article is based on a talk given at the Resistance National Conference, held in Sydney from June 27-29. » Protest the unholy father

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA Pope Benedict XVI is coming to town. Sydney is once again to be subject to a special police regime as this saintly, celibate white man bravely preaches the joys of sexual abstinence in the very Circus Maximus of Sin City (Randwick race course). » Venezuela: a real education revolution

AUSTRALIA PM Kevin Rudd’s “education revolution”, a sad misuse of the word “revolution”, continues to starve public schools of funds. Meanwhile, wealthy private schools are given so much federal money they don’t know what to with it other than bank it or build Olympic-sized gymnasiums. » Terrorist turns liberator in the stroke of a pen

AUSTRALIA What’s the difference between a liberation movement and a terrorist organisation? » Responding to Garnaut: immediate action, not hand wringing

AUSTRALIA Arctic sea ice reached a record minimum in the Northern summer of 2007, prompting the revision of scientists’ predictions of how quickly it will melt away altogether in response to global warming — perhaps as early as 2010-13, rather than the hundred years later estimated in the latest Intergove... » ‘Clean coal’ power station: at what cost?

AUSTRALIA Some unionists are angry that despite all the warnings about the climate emergency and Australia’s high per capita greenhouse gas emissions, the Victorian ALP government has given the go-ahead to a $750 million 400 megawatt brown coal power station in the Latrobe Valley. » 25 years on — celebrating the saving of the Franklin

AUSTRALIA The campaign to stop the damming of the Franklin River in Tasmania’s south-west wilderness resulted in a historic victory for the environment movement in 1983. More than 1000 people came together on July 1 to mark the 25th anniversary of this victory in a night of celebration at the Grand Chancell... » Deal leaves teachers short

AUSTRALIA On May 5, Victorian Premier John Brumby announced that a deal had been struck with the Australian Education Union that would end the union’s 16-month-long industrial campaign. Victorian state school teachers had campaigned to secure better working conditions and pay rises and to reduce contract... » What union response to Garnaut?

AUSTRALIA Right at the beginning of his draft report on climate change, Professor Ross Garnaut points out that global warming can’t be beaten unless an international “prisoner’s dilemma” gets resolved. » Working parents need a national paid parental leave scheme

AUSTRALIA The Rudd government has asked the Productivity Commission to examine the economic, productive and social benefits of introducing a national paid maternity leave scheme. The Commission has heard submissions from a range of unions, business and community groups, and is due to release its report in Feb... » Nepal: Formation of new government frustrated

NEPAL While the historic elections for a constituent assembly were held in April — a product of the pro-democracy uprising that has ended Nepal’s monarchy and created a republic — Nepal is still yet to have a new government sworn in. »


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