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Green Left Weekly issue #760, 30 July 2008
Letters to the editor

LETTERS Venezuela: Heirs of the revolution

RESISTANCE!, VENEZUELA “We are the sons and daughters of Bolivarian socialism and we want to defend it”, explained Eduardo Churrio, speaking to Green Left Weekly. » Vatican policies vs reality

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA I was a participant in the NoToPope protest in Sydney on July 19, and was part of the broad coalition that organised the protest. One of the issues the NoToPope coalition raised as part of the World Youth Day protests was the gap between what the Vatican preaches, (no to condoms and abstinence in se... » Daring to protest his (un)Holiness

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA To background chants of “The pope is wrong, put a condom on!”, protesters crept past the police lines and handed out condoms to the young Catholics streaming into Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse for World Youth Day (WYD). » Unionists to Rudd: `Where are our rights at work?’

AUSTRALIA Labor won the November, 2007 federal election on the promise to “tear-up” Work Choices, abolish the hated Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs — individual contracts) and overhaul the entire industrial relations system. Of course, all of this was promised to contain ample consultation and be ... » Emissions trading scheme a scam: Renewables now!

AUSTRALIA Why do we put so much faith in the market to solve environmental problems? Why do we assume that increasing the cost of fossil fuel emissions will reduce their use rather than just increase everyone’s cost of living? » Class war and the Anglican schism

AUSTRALIA Dramatic events within the worldwide Anglican Communion have revealed a “cold split” with the potential for a complete collapse of the Episcopal formation. » Climate change: market failures spread like wildfire

AUSTRALIA Less than a fortnight after the release of the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme green paper, the potential losers are howling at the spectre of lost profits while the potential winners - global investment banks, hedge funds and commodities traders - are rubbing their hands at... » Labour law expert calls for ABCC to be scrapped

AUSTRALIA “The ABCC [Australian Building and Construction Commission] should be abolished … and its powers should be subsumed by the Workplace Authority and its successor, Fair Work Australia”, Professor Ron McCallum AO from the law faculty at the University of Sydney told Green Left Weekly on July 22. ... » Questions raised about Illawarra escarpment development

AUSTRALIA Wollongong residents are campaigning to defend their community and environment from profit-driven developers and bureaucratic cover-ups. »


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