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Green Left Weekly issue #787, 18 March 2009
Venezuela’s revolutionary progress

RESISTANCE! The US based Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) recently released a report in February detailing the amazing improvements in economic and social indicators in Venezuela during the 10 years of Hugo Chavez’s revolutionary administration. » Boycott Chris Brown

RESISTANCE! To mark International Women’s Day in 2009, socialist youth organisation Resistance has launched a call on all Australian radio stations to boycott the music of US R&B singer Chris Brown. » Iraq: Still crying out for justice

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA On the same day — March 12 — that PM Kevin Rudd was talking turkey (or literally: wheat) with Iraq’s puppet prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, Muntadhar al Zaidi, who became famous after throwing shoes at US President George Bush, was sentenced to three years’ jail. » The Fair Work Bill: is this 'fairness' Tracey can believe in?

AUSTRALIA The Fair Work Bill (FWB) being decided in the Senate will be weakened by Labor’s deal with the opposition and independent senators, which further delivers the corporate agenda to undermine gains for workers’ rights. » Firefighters' union leader: climate change and bush fires

AUSTRALIA Peter Marshall is the national secretary of the United Firefighters Union of Australia, which represents 13,000 firefighters working across the country. In the wake of the recent bushfire crisis in Victoria, he spoke with Green Left Weekly’s Katherine Bradstreet on the current debates surrounding ... » Australian Greens debate emissions trading

AUSTRALIA A debate is underway in the Australian Greens about how the party should respond to the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). » CPRS: a suicide note for the planet

AUSTRALIA The following statement was recently released by Climate Action Canberra in response to the government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Visit http://climateactioncanberra.org . » Fair Work Bill: 'nothing but a con job'

AUSTRALIA The Australian Financial Review doesn’t mince words, nor does it try to conceal reality from its readership. » Anti-war group supports Iraqi workers

The Iraqi workers movement is again beginning to organise, despite contending with the difficult conditions of occupation and war, and in defiance of harassment and arrests by the US military. » ALP on the ropes in Queensland election

AUSTRALIA Except for a two-year blip from 1996 to 1998, the Australian Labor Party has ruled Queensland for the past 20 years. Following 32 years of successive conservative coalition governments, Labor was elected in a landslide in 1989. » Write On: Letters to the Editor


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