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Headlines from GLW #737, 30 January 2008:


Gaza starves: End Israel’s blockade!
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 January 2008
PALESTINE: Early on January 23 more than 20,000 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip poured into Egyptian territory after Palestinian militants from Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) blew up two sections of the Gaza-Egypt border wall at Rafah. »

Bali climate conference reaffirms carbon trading scam
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 January 2008
Amid audible gasps of relief, on December 15 the US delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Bali signalled that Washington would be part of the “Bali Roadmap” for combatting global warming. With the US on board, a two-year process of discussion would begin — hopefully to culminate in the adoption of a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. »

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Venezuela: The struggle for a mass revolutionary party
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008
On January 12, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez opened the founding congress of the provisionally-named United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Chavez argued it was necessary to go on the offensive with the PSUV “as the spearhead and vanguard” of the revolution his government is leading. “We have arrived here to make a real revolution or die trying.” »

France bans GM corn
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Foster’s workers step up campaign
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 January 2008

Electricity privatisation: how the public will pay
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 January 2008
Professor Sharon Beder, a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, prepared a submission on behalf of Unions NSW to the Ownen Inquiry that makes a powerful case against Premier Morris Iemma’s government’s proposed energy privatisation. »

Repeal all anti-abortion laws!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 25 January 2008
On January 22, 1973, abortion was made legal in the US when the Supreme Court overturned a Texas interpretation of abortion law. The decision in the case known as Roe v Wade overrode state laws limiting women’s access to abortion during the first trimester — finding that they infringed upon women’s constitutional rights. While laws still remain on the books banning abortion in some US states, Roe v Wade prevents the enforcement of these laws. »

Growing opposition to NSW power sell-off
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 26 January 2008

Bolivia: 500 years of oppression, two years of change
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 January 2008
Celebrations of the two year anniversary of the coming to power of left-wing President Evo Morales — Bolivia’s first ever indigenous president, elected on the back of mass movements to overturn neocolonialism — occurred in La Paz on January 22. »

Invasion Day protests
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 January 2008

US war veterans: ‘Killing Iraqi civilians is policy’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 January 2008
“The killing of innocent civilians is policy”, Iraq war veteran Mike Blake told a public meeting held on January 19 at the Different Drummer Cafe in Watertown, New York State, near the Canadian border. »

The Tet Offensive: The Vietnamese people turn the tide of history
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 January 2008
Forty years ago, the Tet Offensive changed the course of the Vietnam War and world history. On January 31, 1968, fighters of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) — known dismissively as the “Vietcong” — launched an all-out assault on cities and towns throughout US-occupied South Vietnam, catching the US and its puppet regime completely by surprise, and stunning the world with their courage and audacity. »

Match it
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 January 2008
Prime Minister of Australia Mr Kevin Rudd, MHR [also to other ministers] January 2008 Dear Prime Minister Re: Australian and Cuban education assistance to Timor Leste We the following academics, writers, organisations and NGO workers observe these developments, on education assistance to Timor Leste: »

Pakistan: Can Musharraf survice?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Australia should match Cuban aid to East Timor
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 January 2008

Venezuela: Solidarity brigade witnesses gains of revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Ecuador: Massive rally marks Correa’s first anniversary
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Solomon Islands: New PM follows Canberra’s orders
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008
“Prime ministers of the Solomon Islands and Australia have refused to comment on their meeting in Canberra this afternoon”, ABC News Online reported on January 23, adding: “Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s office says he will not be commenting on the outcome of the goodwill visit. Repeated attempts to contact [PM] Dr Sikua have been either unanswered, or unsuccessful, with no reason given for the secrecy.” »

M.I.A.: Representing the World Town
REVIEW, 25 January 2008

Robert Brenner: A devastating economic crisis unfolds
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Abdullah Qureshi, 1935 — 2007
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 January 2008

Big business the winner as Rudd wields axe
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 January 2008

Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Fighting Fund: Message from a battler
GENERAL, 26 January 2008

Also in #737:


read »International News

  • Abdullah Qureshi, 1935 — 2007
  • Bolivia: 500 years of oppression, t...
  • Britain: Blair joins Wall Street ba...
  • Britain: Rally launches pro-choice ...
  • Ecuador: Massive rally marks Correa...
  • France bans GM corn
  • Gaza starves: End Israel’s blo...
  • Pakistan: Can Musharraf survice?
  • Robert Brenner: A devastating econo...
  • Solomon Islands: New PM follows Can...
  • The Tet Offensive: The Vietnamese p...
  • US war veterans: ‘Killing Iraq...
  • Venezuela: Solidarity brigade witne...
  • Venezuela: The struggle for a mass ...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • $2.9 billion needed for public scho...
  • Australia should match Cuban aid to...
  • Bali climate conference reaffirms c...
  • Big business the winner as Rudd wie...
  • Cuban permaculturalist to tour Aust...
  • Eco-socialism: 'feasible environmen...
  • Invasion Day 2008
  • Match it
  • Olympic Dam expansion: a risk too g...
  • Repeal all anti-abortion laws!
  • Uranium tailings dumped in plastic ...
  • Victorian unionist: power privatisa...
  • Letters: Letters to the Edit...
  • Resistance!: Nationalism: di...
  • Resistance!: The battle cont...
  • Our Common Cause: Growing op...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $250...

    • read »Australian News

  • Australian Tamils call for sanction...
  • Don’t privatise Freo’s beac...
  • Electricity privatisation: how the ...
  • Foster’s workers step up campa...
  • Invasion Day protests
  • NSW TAFE set to strike
  • Residents organise after chlorine f...
  • Brief: News briefs

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: M.I.A.: Representing...
  • Review: MacCallum dances aro...
  • Review: Wilfred Burchett: A ...
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