GLW issue 815, published 2009-10-28.

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The Flame Arabic-language supplement, October 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 October edition can be read at Links, international journal of socialist renewal.

Geelong Trades Hall: 'Howes right on refugees'

The following statement is by Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary Tim Gooden.

Socialist councillor: community activist, socialist, unionist

The Socialist Alliance’s Sam Wainwright was elected to the Fremantle Council on October 17. He was elected with 438 votes (33.44%) and will represent the Hilton ward.

Protest says stop brown coal exports

About 100 people protested on October 22 against the Brumby government's proposal to allow brown coal exports to India.

Further

No coal, no nuclear

Australian News

Far North ALP opposes privatisations

A motion calling for a halt to the Queensland ALP government’s plans to privatise public rail, port, road and forestry assets was passed with support of 70% of delegates at the ALP’s Far Northern regional conference on October 18.

Peter Garrett must reject Traveston Dam

Community and conservation groups fighting the controversial Mary River Traveston Crossing Dam proposal, near Gympie, have recently held a series of campaign strategy meetings. This followed the Queensland coordinator general’s October 6 approval of the proposal, which attached 1200 conditions to the dam project.

Further Australian News

International News

Latin America: ALBA summit prioritises planet and poor

The seventh summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a nine-nation anti-imperialist trading bloc established in 2004 by Cuba and Venezuela, was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia over October 16-17.

A slow coup in Venezuela

United States measures for resisting progressive changes in Latin America have included funding for right-wing opposition groups, military deployment throughout the region, and the reactivating of the US Navy Fourth Fleet for monitoring the continent.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Reinstating the RDA is hypocrisy

Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin announced in May that the federal Labor government would reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act by the end of October. But she has also said key policies of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) would remain — discriminatory policies that required the suspension of the RDA to be passed.

Rudd's policy is racist — refugees are not illegal

The Australian government is getting desperate and showing its true colours. Not long after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd personally intervened to turn away a boat of 260 Tamil refugees in international waters, a second boat — also carrying refugees from Sri Lanka — sent out a distress signal off the coast of Sumatra.

Further Comment and Analysis

Editorial

Climate change: nuclear no answer

The big nuclear push is on. The nuclear industry is trying to re-brand yellowcake as “green”.

Letters

Write On: Letters to the editor

Balibo I Clinton Fernandes describes himself as a "consulting historian" to the movie Balibo. He is a former military intelligence officer, who has his own reasons for promoting the official line on whether Australian intelligence was forewarned

Greens should re-think climate policy

Simon Butler precisely explains his concerns about the inadequacy of the Greens’ climate change amendment proposals (“The good and the bad of the Greens CPRS amendments”, GLW #814). However, like the mainstream media, he overlooks some of the Greens’ visionary bills on efficiency and renewables-friendly demand management.

General

Open letter to Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Honduras — please add your name

Please ciruclate and add your name to this letter by emailing weekly.greenleft@gmail.com

Labor's shameful refugee policy

A wave of deep moral revulsion swept through everyone in this country with a social conscience after Labor PM Kevin Rudd uttered that ugly sentence: “This government makes no apology for a hard-line approach to people smuggling and border security.”

Further General

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Resistance!

Sexism and queerphobia's social basis

There are social expectations on everyone, men and women, to act in particular ways based on our sex. This is bad for everyone because it’s stifling, but it’s worse for women and queers.

Cultural Dissent

Balibo: exposing the cover-up

Balibo By Jill Jolliffe Scribe Publications, 2009 416 pages, $29.95 (pb)

Ecosocialist solutions to the climate crisis

The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction Edited by Ian Angus Resistance Books, London, 2009 286 pages, $49 (pb)

Further Cultural Dissent

Che's revolutionary example

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