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Latin America: John Pilger on US covert war

Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world’s dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent — Latin America.

Unions call for troops to leave Afghanistan

The death of the fifth Australian solider in Afghanistan on April 27, followed a few days later by the wounding of another, has refocused attention on AustraliaÂ’s involvement in the US-led occupation.

Rudd continues mandatory detention

On April 28, Labor PM Kevin RuddÂ’s government began to deport asylum seekers, beginning with a Chinese woman. The next day, two Indian men were placed in stage 1 of the Villawood immigration detention centre for preparation for deportation.

Global economic crisis: 'No-one knows where the toxic debt is buried'

US Professor John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and teaches political economy and environmental sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature and Ecology Against Capitalism. He was a

Letters to the Editor

Nuclear power I David Walters (Write On, GLW #747) repeats the nuclear industry's misinformation regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear power can only reduce CO2 released from electricity generation. There are five classes of greenhouse gases

Women sing for East Timor

Hau Abut (I am Woman)
Compilation CD for the women of East Timor
Available in Australia for $25.00 (postage included) from <info@afap.org>

Wharfies' hungry struggle remembered

The Hungry Mile and Other Poems
By Ernest Antony
republished by the Maritime Union of Australia, 2008
64 pages, $20 (pb)
Available from the MUA, Level 2, 365 Sussex Street, Sydney 2000

Staying human in the face of horror

The Seventh Well
By Fred Wander, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman
WW Norton & Co, 2008
160 pages, $37.95 (hb)

Venezuela: 'This year's May Day is very special'

“We have just attended a massive march of workers for May Day in Caracas”, Coral Wynter, a coordinator of the current Australia-Venezuela Solidarity NetworkÂ’s brigade to Venezuela, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.

Venezuela: 'Do they think we are morons?'

On live TV, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed the law on April 30 that re-nationalised the giant Sidor steelworks — majority owned by Argentinean-based Ternium corporation.