Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/index.htm> RSS feed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/rss/glw.xml> Green Left Weekly, issue #624, April 27, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latin America in revolt: Continent defies the USA <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p24.htm> For over two decades the US has forced neoliberalism and its accompanying poverty and despair down Third World throats in order to make the world better for US business. To many, the spreading US economic empire, at the point of a gun and a loan, has seemed unassailable. But now, unable to defeat a rag-tag bunch of Iraqi militias, and rapidly losing allies in Latin America, the empire is not looking so strong. [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p24.htm> * ECUADOR: People drive out president <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p15.htm> * VENEZUELA: Global Encounter discusses popular power <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14.htm> * VENEZUELA: The struggle of the CNV workers <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14b.htm> * VENEZUELA: Visit to Women's Bank project <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14c.htm> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUSTRALIA: Defend unions! Protest June 30! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p3.htm> Since the re-election of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government there has been a debate in the union movement about how best to respond to Howard's plan to crack down on the right of workers to organise in unions. [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p3.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here to join the GLW discussion list <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/> Visit the Socialist Alliance website <http://www.socialist-alliance.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International News # Latin America in revolt: Continent defies USA <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p24.htm> # Iraq's challenge to the US empire <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p12.htm> # SCOTLAND: 'Make capitalism history' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20.htm> # VENEZUELA: Global Encounter discusses popular power <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14.htm> # VENEZUELA: The struggle of the CNV workers <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14b.htm> # VENEZUELA: Visit to Women's Bank project <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14c.htm> # ECUADOR: People drive out president <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p15.htm> # Ratzinger: the Rottweiler as Pope <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p16.htm> # EAST TIMOR: Protests in Dili challenge government <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p16b.htm> # TURKEY: Behind the EU window dressing <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p17.htm> # VIETNAM: 30 years later, war crimes go on and on <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p18.htm> # ISRAEL: Students refuse military service <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p19.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enjoy reading Green Left Weekly? 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Why not make an online donation <http://www.greenleft.org.au/fogl.htm>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Brief: # BRITAIN: Students stop de****tations <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20b.htm> # BRITAIN: Lecturers vote for Israeli boycott <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20c.htm> # BRITAIN: Homophobic policy costs lives <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20d.htm> # CHILE: Students protest education privatisation <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20e.htm> # BOLIVIA: Presidents sued by MAS <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20g.htm> # COLOMBIA: US drug smugglers protected by military <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20h.htm> # SOUTH AFRICA: 1000 face eviction from factory <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20i.htm> Regular Features # Write on: Letters to the editor <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p8.htm> # Loose cannons <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5c.htm> # Cartoon <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/toonk.jpg> # This week in history <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p10b.htm> # SHOCKFACTS: Prisons <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p10c.htm> Comment and Analysis # All unions must protest Howard's attacks <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p3.htm> # Help defeat Howard! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p3b.htm> # Behind the wire <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p8b.htm> # No VSU! Students won't be silenced <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p9.htm> # Students campaign against Iraq war <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p9b.htm> # Calls for a NSW union defence coalition <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p6.htm> # May Day in Australia - the struggle continues <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p6b.htm> # Staff stage strike at Ballarat University <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p6c.htm> # MUA struggle: how we beat Howard last time <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p7.htm> # OUR COMMON CAUSE: Craig Johnston's greetings to May Day <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p7b.htm> # Douglas Scott murder cover-up unravels <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p10.htm> # GLW to co-sponsor Pilger film festivals <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p11.htm> Australian News # Peace group relaunched <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5e.htm> # Asylum seekers de****ted to danger <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5f.htm> # Socialists plan fightback against Howard <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p4.htm> # Save Our Rail protesters to join May Day march <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p4b.htm> # Socialist Alliance reaffirms opposition to rail closure <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p4c.htm> # Generations of Resistance celebrated <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5d.htm> # Howard a 'war criminal' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p4d.htm> # Abortion: 'As early as possible, as late as necessary' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5.htm> # Solidarity toast hails Venezuela revolution <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p5b.htm> # ABM Plastics settlement reached <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p2b.htm> # Union of Aboriginal nations formed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p2c.htm> # 1000 march to save Recherche Bay <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p2d.htm> # Protests to demand recognition of Australia-Timor boundary <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p2.htm> Cultural Dissent # Deciphering the code of US lies about Chavez <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p21.htm> # For the Moment <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p21b.htm> # I wanna go to Venezuela <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p21c.htm> # Greek tragedy meets black Australia <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p22.htm> # Is blood thicker than water? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p22b.htm> Activist Calendar # <http://www.greenleft.org.au/calendar.htm>. 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