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Headlines from GLW #747, 23 April 2008:


Pro-Tibet protests grow — why Tibet deserves justice
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 April 2008
TIBET: ACT police have been given enhanced stop-and-search powers for dealing with protests planned for the Canberra leg of the global Olympic torch relay on April 24. This comes as protests by the Tibetan diaspora and their supporters have turned the torch’s world tour into a public relations disaster for the Beijing Olympics. »

Global food crisis: biofuels threaten hunger
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 April 2008
A food crisis, caused largely by skyrocketing prices, has hit dozens of countries across the Third World, while an April 14 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) argues that increasing production of “agrofuels” (the large-scale production of biofuels, using food crops to create fuels such as ethanol) further threatens the world’s poor with hunger. »

Coming clean on 'nice' coal
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 April 2008
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technique to remove carbon dioxide from industrial pollution — and especially from power stations — and compress, transport and store it perpetually in secure underground structures such as expired gas and oil fields and other geological formations. »

Radical ecologists discuss climate and social change
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 April 2008
More than 300 people took part in three days of invigorating discussion at the Climate Change — Social change conference on April 11-13 hosted by Green Left Weekly. »

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Venezuela: Steel nationalisation marks‘new revolution within revolution’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 April 2008
Denouncing the “coloniser attitude” and “barbarous exploitation” of workers by the management of the Sidor steel company, Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced at 1.30am on April 9 that President Hugo Chavez had decided to nationalise the company. »

Venezuelan steel workers: ‘A triumph of the revolutionary people’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 April 2008
“Now, to producing Venezuelan steel at the service of the revolution and socialism!”, proclaimed Jose Melendez, referring to the victory obtained after 15 months of struggle at the steel factory Sidor, located in the heartland of Venezuela’s basic industry in Guayana. »

'Unite to fight climate change'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 April 2008
Green Left Weekly caught up with some of the Climate Change — Social Change conference participants. Here’s what they had to say. »

Capitalism versus the planet
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 April 2008
John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and an editor of the prestigious US-based socialist journal Monthly Review (), was a featured speaker at Green Left Weekly’s April 11-13 Climate Change — Social Change conference in Sydney. He spoke to GLW’s Renfrey Clarke. »

The Patricks battle 10 years on
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 April 2008
This April is the 10th anniversary of the mass sacking of hundreds of waterside workers around Australia by the giant Patrick Stevedores. The drama surrounding this event stirred fierce passions, generated mass protests and polarised society on a scale seldom witnessed. »

Labor's new IR laws: flexible for whom?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 April 2008
The detail of the federal Labor government’s plan for its new industrial relations system, to come into force in January 2010, is beginning to come to light. On April 9, the Australian Financial Review reported that it had obtained a copy of a letter sent by workplace relations minister Julia Gillard to a range of unions and businesses. It canvassed their opinion on issues including the scope of allowable content in workplace agreements, the scope of individual “flexibility” clauses to be mandatory in all awards and enterprise agreements and regulation of industrial action during a bargaining period for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA). »

Zimbabwe: Mass mobilisation can defeat Mugabe
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 April 2008

Pulp mill-related scandal brings down deputy premier
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 April 2008

Thousands turn out to hear Cuban permaculturist
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 April 2008

Nepal: Left wins big victory
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 April 2008

A great step forward in Nepal
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 April 2008

Rudd the conquerer?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 April 2008

'Apartheid system' in the NT
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 April 2008

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  • Venezuela: Steel nationalisation ma...
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  • G20 sentencing: upping the ante on ...
  • Labor's new IR laws: flexible for w...
  • RBA governor: Green energy? Workers...
  • Ruth Coleman: last of a generation
  • The Patricks battle 10 years on
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  • 'Unite to fight climate change'
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  • Radical ecologists discuss climate ...
  • Rudd the conquerer?
  • Teachers demand recognition
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  • Thousands turn out to hear Cuban pe...
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  • Brief: Patricks dispute anni...

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