[DEBATE] : Venezuela: The `threat of a good example' - Green Left Weekly #658, March 1, 2006

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Green Left Weekly #658, March 1, 2006

Venezuela: The `threat of a good example'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p15.htm>

A February 20 article in Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper, entitled
`Joker Chavez no laughing matter for Bush', attacked the socialist
president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and his efforts to strengthen a
Latin American anti-imperialist alliance, which new Bolivian President
Evo Morales has pledged to join. [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p15.htm>

* Venezuela's sexual revolution within the revolution
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p12.htm>
* Visit Venezuelanalysis.com <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com> for
daily updates on Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution

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A racist flag? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p24.htm>

Since its adoption as the national flag in 1901, the Australian flag has
stood for colonialism, racism and militarism. So it was no coincidence
that the anti-Lebanese rioters at Sydney's Cronulla beach last December
draped themselves in the Australian flag as they beat, kicked, and threw
beer bottles at anyone who looked Middle Eastern. Neither was it a
coincidence that Pauline Hanson, founder of the racist One Nation party,
chose to promote herself as ?the mother of the nation? wrapped in the
flag. [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p24.htm>

* Howard's rule: 10 years too long
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p3.htm>
* ALP local leader: A responsibility to speak out
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p10.htm>

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International News

# VENEZUELA: The threat of a good example
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p15.htm>
# Venezuela's sexual revolution within the revolution
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p12.htm>
# PHILIPPINES: Protests expected against emergency decree
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14.htm>
# SOUTH AFRICA: Protests cause cracks in ANC-led alliance
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p18.htm>
# ZIMBABWE: MDC versus MDC
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p17c.htm>
# DENMARK: Socialists arrested for solidarity
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14b.htm>
# PALESTINE: Israel punishes Palestinians for Hamas vote
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p16.htm>
# ISRAEL: Vanunu: 'Atomic bomb protects apartheid policy'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p16x.htm>
# IRAN: US legislators endorse Bush's war drive
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p17.htm>
# IRAQ: Resistance fighters confident of victory
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p17b.htm>
# NEW ZEALAND: Workers Charter paper goes to the press
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p18b.htm>
# INDONESIA: Leftists organise solidarity with West Papuans
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p19.htm>
# NEPAL: Building a new road in Rolpa
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p20.htm>

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In Brief

# WEST PAPUA: Freeport mine forced to close
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14c.htm>
# UNITED STATES: Church alliance denounces Iraq war
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14d.htm>
# BRITAIN: Radiation reached Britain from Iraq
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14e.htm>
# UNITED STATES: New law bans abortion
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14f.htm>
# UNITED STATES: It could be you
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14g.htm>
# BRITAIN: FBI questions Morrissey
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14h.htm>
# ACEH: Human-rights group's office attacked
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p14i.htm>
# CHILE: President denies anti-Chavez front
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p15b.htm>
# Protests support Iranian bus drivers
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4f.htm>
# Iraqi journalist speaks
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4g.htm>

Regular Features

# Write On: Letters to the Editor
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# Editorial: A 'religious war' in Iraq?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p3b.htm>
# Our Common Cause: No more troops to Afghanistan! Bring them all back
now! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p7b.htm>
# The case for socialism: War: capitalism with the gloves off
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p10b.htm>

Comment and Analysis

# A racist flag? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p24.htm>
# Howard's rule: 10 years too long
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p3.htm>
# Debate over IR campaign direction
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4.htm>
# ALP Armidale branch leader: A responsibility to speak out
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p10.htm>
# 'Too much at stake to be silenced'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p6.htm>
# Bill Hartley, 1930-2006
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p9.htm>
# Will nuclear power deliver a climate dividend?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p11.htm>
# Iemma's 'public-private' push under fire
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p11b.htm>
# Which way forward to equality?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p12b.htm>
# Marriage rights for all
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p12c.htm>
# What does VSU mean for women's rights?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p6c.htm>
# Women condemn Howard's Islamophobia
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p7.htm>
# Unions condemn NSW Labor's jobs cuts
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p8b.htm>
# Give Blair the welcome he deserves!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p9b.htm>

Cultural Dissent

# Jarhead: War is not a video game
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p21.htm>
# Full Marx <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p21b.htm>
# Standing up to sedition: the US experience
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p22.htm>
# Torres Strait Islanders in the spotlight
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p22b.htm>

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and Vietnamese roads")
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# Another world is possible!
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# Beazley challenged to try citizen's arrest against revolutionary
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p2c.htm>
# Young workers' conference planned
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4b.htm>
# Unionist contests by-election
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4c.htm>
# Freeway threatens World Heritage
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4d.htm>
# Students picket military recruiters
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4e.htm>
# McArthur River mine expansion rejected
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p4i.htm>
# Raising the red flag in Tasmania
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p5.htm>
# Unions mobilise to defend Opera House workers
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p5b.htm>
# Newcastle rail line saved
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p5c.htm>
# UNSW staff launch EB campaign
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p5d.htm>
# Victory for victimised guest workers
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/658/658p5e.htm>

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