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Corrections

The article "Trial of the Goulburn Nine" (GLW #775)contained an error, claiming the Melbourne "terror trial" in September resulted in "six people [being] convicted of conspiring to commit a terrorist act". In fact, they were convicted of belonging to

Venezuela: Chavez calls for 'revolution in the revolution'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for a 鈥渞evolution within the revolution鈥, at an 8000 strong United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) rally on November 18.

Labor, Liberal candidates unite against Greens

The Greens are fielding almost 100 candidates across Victoria in local council elections on November 29. There will be Greens candidates in almost every ward.

Write On: Letters to the editor

National liberation movements In an otherwise excellent and very informative article on the fragmentation of the African National Congress in South Africa, Dale T. McKinley (GLW #775) writes: "As has been the case with all national liberation

Redesigning child care: their public sector and ours

In periods of capitalist economic implosion, increased public spending and an enlarged role for the public sector becomes unavoidable, even for the most one-eyed of free marketeers.

On the box

Fidel Castro 鈥 Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm. Lionel Rose 鈥 In 1968, a young Aboriginal

Climate change movement: Involve, educate, empower

Leigh Hughes, an activist in the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Socialist Alliance, as well a member of the Australian Student Environment Network, recently won the ACT Conservation Council鈥檚 鈥淟eading Light鈥 award for the most outstanding environmental effort of an individual under the age of 30. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler.

Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?

One of US president-elect Barack Obama鈥檚 leading advisers has done more damage to Africa, its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world history, including even Cecil John Rhodes.

SKA TV turns 20

SKA TV has been around for 20 years as an alternative voice to mainstream television. We started off running guerrilla transmissions before there was such a thing as community television and along the way we created, along with four other guerrilla TV transmitter groups, Channel 31.

The US role in Somalia's misery

Outgoing US President George Bush has often stated that history will be the rightful judge of his legacy. Some academics, such as John Lewis Gaddis and Fareed Zakaria, have already begun early revisions to the Bush years.

The coal industry's latest greenwashing campaign

The Australian Coal Association (ACA) has launched a new website () and advertising campaign aimed at convincing us that coal producers are not filthy carbon merchants profiting from the most emissions-intensive fossil fuel available, but can be modernised and cleaned up using 聯low-emissions coal technology聰.

Burma: 'Only 65 years?'

One of Burma聮s most prominent activists has been sentenced to 65 years jail, along with two other pro-democracy leaders, in connection with anti-government protests held last year.