GLW issue 775, published 2008-11-19.

Climate change: Maldives seek new homeland

According to a November 11 article in the British Guardian, the Maldives government is investigating the possibility of purchasing land in order to move its citizens to escape the disappearance of the Indian Ocean archipelago due to climate change.

China and the global economic crisis

As the US, Japan and Europe slide into recession, the leaders of many smaller countries are desperately hoping that continued strong growth in the Chinese economy, which has contributed about 15% of world economic growth in recent years, might save them from this meltdown.

A letter to the ACT Greens

The following letter was sent to the ACT Greens from the Socialist Alliance on November 13.

Seeds of Dissent 2009 calendar launch

MELBOURNE — Community radio station 3CR has released its fundraising Seeds of Dissent 2009 calendar. The theme for the 2009 calendar is “political poster art”.

Further

Australian News

How we can stop Rees's privatisation plans

The NSW mini-budget on November 11 is a full-on assault on public services and the public ownership of major assets in NSW.

Residents organise against job cuts at Victoria University

More than 200 people, including local residents, packed a community hall in Footscray on November 6 to protest vice-chancellor (VC) Liz Harman’s announcement that 270 Victoria University (VU) staff will face the chop, most before Christmas.

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International News

Venezuela: Socialists push for popular power

Pedro Alvarez is the candidate for mayor of Campo Elias, in the state of Merida, for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) — a party established by President Hugo Chavez with the aim of uniting Venezuela’s mass revolutionary movement to construct “socialism of the 21st century”.

Bolivia: Compromise and advance

The ominous clouds that seemed to indicate the worst of storms, and which tend to hypnotise analysts inside and outside of Bolivia, dissipated following a political agreement that has set January 25 as the date for a referendum on the draft for a new constitution.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Garbage: a goldmine for capitalism

We are all working harder through recycling to try to reduce the amount of garbage going wastefully to landfill.

Jobs and services slashed in NSW mini-budget

The global financial crisis is, again, showing up the savagery of the unfettered rule of the market. Governments are responding by increasing financial regulation, nationalising parts of the economy, and spending big on public infrastructure programs to pump-prime a stagnating capitalist economy. Not in NSW.

Further Comment and Analysis

Editorial

No to the death penalty, no to hypocrisy

After midnight on November 9, Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Mukhlas Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan.

Letters

Write on: Letters to the editor

Racism The recent sentencing of a man for inciting a riot on Palm Island to seven years imprisonment is in stark contrast to the acquitting of the arresting officer in the original case — in which the arrested man died — and the awarding of

General

The car companies that eat our future have their hands out — again!

There are some new faces joining the banks on the corporate bailout queue: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.

Corrections

Due to a sub-editing error, the article "'No VSU-lite', say students" (GLW #774) contained an error. The article implied that the new levy introduced by the Rudd Labor government is non-compulsory. In fact, the changes allow the universities to

Cultural Dissent

A not-too-comic portrayal of Che

Che: A Graphic Biography
by Spain Rodriguez
Verso Books, 2008
120 pages, $29.95 (pb)

The woman who tried to save Lake Peddar

Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
Directed by Scott Millwood
Written by Scott Millwood & Mira Robertson
Distributed by Gill Scrine & Little Films Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
By Scott Millwood
Allen & Unwin, 2008
256 pages, $26.95 (pb)

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