GLW issue 808, published 2009-08-26.

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Video evidence of war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military — executions of Tamil men

The article below is a August 27 statement by the Australian Tamil Congress. Media contact: Dr. Sam Pari – 0433 428 967

Green Left Weekly taking a one-week break

The current issue of Green Left Weekly, #808, is a two-week issue. The next edition will be dated September 9.

Socialist Alliance, global warming and left unity

The Socialist Alliance WA state conference took place on August 15. In the same week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) failed to pass through the senate.

Gold Coast's largest ever strike

GOLD COAST — Hotels and tourist operators on the Gold Coast have been using the recession as an excuse to apply the thumbscrews to hospitality workers. The industry is cutting wages and hours, forcing redundancies and pressuring those who manage to keep their jobs to work even harder to cover for their lost workmates. Now it appears Gold Coast City Council intends to do the same.

Further

Funding cuts: art will suffer

Australian News

Australian Tamil Congress launched

More than 500 people attended the launch of the Victorian chapter of the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC) on August 15.

Gov't failed to manage bushfire tragedy

The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission interim report was released on August 17. It found government and fire authorities failed to properly manage the deadliest bushfires in Australia’s history.

Further Australian News

International News

Panama: Twenty years on from US invasion

Recent events in Honduras — where a Washington-backed military coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 — conform to the historic pattern of United States involvement in Latin American affairs.

The truth about queer rights in Cuba

Having just returned from Cuba, I find some US-propagated lies about the country particularly galling. I want to lay some to rest.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

The renewable energy scheme that isn't

Federal parliament passed a renewable energy bill on August 20. The target is to source 20% of Australia’s energy from renewables by 2020. The reality is that it won’t do what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it will.

Peace group steps up 'troops out' campaign

The Sydney Stop the War Coalition (StWC) used the day of the sham presidential elections in Afghanistan to again call on the Rudd government to get the Australian troops out of the country. The war on Afghanistan was not a “good war”, the peace group said on August 20.

Further Comment and Analysis

Letters

Write on — letters to the editor

Afghanistan under occupation Horrifying UN statistics demonstrate that the elections to be held in Afghanistan under occupier guns will not be democratic. According to UN Population Division statistics, the "annual death rate" is 7% for infants

General

The Flame — Arabic language supplement, August 2009

With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, Green Left Weekly is proud to publish a regular Arabic language supplement. The Flame covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. The August, 2009 edition can be read at Links, international journal of socialist renewal.

Green Left Weekly taking a one-week break

The current issue of Green Left Weekly, #808, is a two-week issue. The next edition will be dated September 9.

Resistance!

Students focus on climate emergency

From August 10 to 14, the University of Wollongong’s (UOW) Environment Week brought together campaigners and environmentalists for a variety of events. The climate emergency was a central focus.

Young people and climate change: the power is ours

Sydney Resistance member Aaron Roden presented the following talk at the NSW Socialist Alliance conference on August 8.

Cultural Dissent

What cost conquest?

Rethink AfghanistanDirected by Robert GreenwaldDVD for sale in October, visit www.rethinkafghanistan.com

On the box

Tales from a Suitcase — Anne Duffy-Lindsay grew up in a radical IRA family in southern Ireland. Upon arriving in Australia in the early 1950s, she took up the communist cause. SBS1, Tuesday August 25th, 2.30pm. Costa's Garden Odyssey — Takes a

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