GLW issue 656, published 2006-02-15.

VENEZUELA: US aggression against revolution grows

Stuart Munckton The February 2 expulsion from Venezuela of the US embassy's naval attache Captain John Correa has sparked a significant increase in US aggression against the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez. In response, up to 2.5

Controversial desalination plant axed?

Zoe Kenny, Sydney The day after a special sub-committee meeting of the NSW cabinet on February 7, ALP Premier Morris Iemma released the 2006 Progress Report on the Metropolitan Water Plan, which contained the announcement to "shelve" the plan to

Parkin deported for peanut butter sandwiches?

Dale Mills More information has come to light on possible reasons for the arrest and detention in Australia of US peace activist Scott Parkin last September. According to a report on the US Newsweek magazine's website, a peanut butter and jelly

Howard targets minimum wage and welfare benefits

Graham Matthews It's an open secret that the Howard government introduced the Orwellian-named Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) in its Work Choices package as a means to cut the minimum wage. The commission will supercede the Australian

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Australian News

Who would best represent working class people?

Sue Bolton, Melbourne Sixty-five people attended the feature session of the Socialist Party's two-day national summer school on "The great debate — Who would best represent working class people?" at Trades Hall Bar on February 6. Speakers for

Women, not politicians, should decide

Greens MLC Sylvia Hale and feminist doctor Kamala Emanuel were among speakers at a February 6 action in Sydney to protest against politicians denying women their right to choose to use the abortion drug RU486. On February 9, the Senate passed a

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International News

SOUTH AFRICA: The real state of the nation

Percy Ngonyama South African President Thabo Mbeki's "State of the Nation" address, delivered on February 3 in Cape Town at the highly militarised opening of parliament, was a further blow for the country's poor masses. While recommitting to

VENEZUELA: 'Another television is possible'

Jim McIlroy &Coral Wynter, Caracas On February 2, the Latin American TV channel Telesur and the Arabic channel Al Jazeera signed an agreement to exchange information and technology, formalising a growing link that was initiated when Telesur began

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Cultural Dissent

Politicising Glasgow's pavements

This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class PastBy Ian R. MitchellLuath Press, 2005180 pages REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER If Edinburgh was the city of the 18th century enlightened bourgeoisie, Glasgow was, and to a certain extent still is, the city of

On the box

Message Stick — Inside the lives of Indigenous Australians across the country, in their own voices. ABC, Friday, February 17, 6pm. The End of the World as We Know it — Writer Marcel Theroux examines the issue of global warming. SBS, Friday,

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