[Imc-zimbabwe] G8 debt relief scam: Africa needs justice! - Green Left Weekly #631, June 29, 2005 (5)

Tue Jun 28 02:13:19 PDT 2005

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Green Left Weekly #631, June 29, 2005

G8 debt relief scam: Africa needs justice!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p28.htm>

If the papers are to be believed, the key decades-long demand of the
global justice movement -- debt cancellation -- had been agreed to,
thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair's British Labour
government, leading aid agencies and pop ``legends'' Bob Geldof and
Bono. However, the devil is in the details. [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p28.htm>

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Australia: Anti-union laws will hurt millions: `If you don't fight, you
lose!

There is determination that we can and must take a stand, and there's a
growing feeling that maybe this fight could be the beginning of the end
for Howard and his gang. [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14.htm>

* Union leaders call on ALP to stand up for workers' rights
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14b.htm>
* 'Touch one - touch all!'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14c.htm>
* Senate supports ACTU campaign
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14d.htm>
* Building a fighting spirit in Geelong
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p2.htm>

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International News

# IRAQ: Bush, Blair, Howard and the Downing Street memo
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# IRAQ: Hundreds kidnapped in Iraq, US increases bombing
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# UZBEKISTAN: Papering over a massacre?
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# Venezuela Solidarity Network <http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org>
# BRAZIL: Corruption scandal threatens Lula
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p19.htm>
# CHILE: Gold mine protested
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# VENEZUELA: Plot to kill Chavez discovered
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p19c.htm>
# AFGHANISTAN: More troops to help US control
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p20.htm>
# PHILIPPINES: Call made for provisional revolutionary government
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p21.htm>
# HONG KONG: Sham election of new chief executive
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p21b.htm>
# GERMANY: Left unites to challenge old parties
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p22.htm>
# SCOTLAND: SSP fights for school meals
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p22b.htm>
# CANADA: A crisis rooted in Quebec
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p23.htm>
# UNITED STATES: Lessons from the United Airlines pension plan
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In Brief

# MEXICO: Zapatistas discuss change of direction
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p20b.htm>
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# NIGERIA: Communities sue oil firms
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p20f.htm>
# ENGLAND: 97 Zimbabweans on hunger strike
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# Washington denies climate change
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# UN report: East Timor trials a sham
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p20k.htm>

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Comment and Analysis

# Anti-union laws will hurt millions - If you don't fight, you lose!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14.htm>
# Union leaders call on ALP to stand up for workers' rights
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14b.htm>
# 'Touch one - touch all!'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14c.htm>
# Senate supports ACTU campaign
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p14d.htm>
# Aladdin Sisalem - one year on
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p10.htm>
# Seeing Red: Fight-back kit against Howard's IR plans
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p10b.htm>
# Racism the big winner in NT elections
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p11.htm>
# Child support a victim of Coalition 'wedge politics'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p11b.htm>
# This week in history
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p11c.htm>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p12.htm>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p13.htm>
# The Weld Valley - forgotten forest
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p13b.htm>
# EDITORIAL: A workers' paper
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p3.htm>
# Labor votes for Howard-Georgiou deal
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p7.htm>
# Our Common Cause: Keep up the fight for refugee rights!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p7b.htm>
# A woman's place is in the struggle: Fighting Howard's anti-women,
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# Construction union wins first round
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p9.htm>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p9b.htm>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p9c.htm>

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