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Green Left Weekly #717, July 18, 2007
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Iraq: No More Blood for Oil! Bring the Troops Home Now!
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37217

“Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing
oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in
Iraq.” This was how the BBC reported Nelson’s July 5 comments to the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the release of a review of
Australia’s “defence strategy”.

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International News

*Iraq: Howard government admits what we all knew
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37217>
*Iraq: Bush revives al Qaeda bogeyman to justify war
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37248>
*Venezuela: Real rights and recognition replace racism
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37209>
*Scotland: Review rejects key Lockerbie ‘evidence’
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37253>
*Britain: ‘The natural party of business’
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37250>
*East Timor: Uncertainty over future government
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37249>
*West Papua: Report highlights human rights abuse
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37252>
*West Papua: Military threatens to crush ‘separatists’
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37251>
*Palestine: Israel frees 250, arrests 300
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37246>
*Palestine: Breaking the siege in Gaza
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/717/37247>

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SWP 07/07
Post workers can win for all workers

The postal workers’ dispute is crucial for workers across Britain. CWU members have responded magnificently to the call for action. Over 95 percent of postal workers struck on 29 June and similar numbers are expected during our strike on Thursday and Friday of this week.
WRPJuly 2007
Pakistan – US threatens military intervention Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell.

With this allegation, McConnell was setting the scene for a US threat that it will take military action against the Taleban and Al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan, thus spreading the Afghan war into that country with Vietnam style ‘hot pursuit’ operations as well as bombing and missile raids.

RCP 07/07
The Historical Crib, the Split Mind and the Will-To-Be
A discussion meeting was held in Yeovil on June 23, 2007, on the topic of Schizophrenia and “The Necessity for Change” Analysis. The “historical crib” and “the will-to-be” are two important concepts which can help explain the current situation for mental health suffers and other people, and contribute to empowerment
EPSR 07/07
Explosive resolution of corrupting Abbasite stoogery in Gaza a telling expression of the dialectic of imperialist crisis, pushing revolutionary understanding closer to the surface. Further imperialist siege torture and stooge bribery will rebound in conditions of growing world political crisis for the entire capitalist order heading for terminal collapse into warmongering chaos and destruction. Palestinian response is a telling symptom of the worldwide transformation of ordinary people no longer prepared to suffer the degradation and tyranny of the profit making system – a massively optimistic sign of revolution to come – the only solution to oncoming mayhem. But the need for conscious scientific Marxism is paramount
ISG 07/07
Labour leadership transition
Missed chances to build Respect
The inauguration of Gordon Brown and his new deputy leader at the end of June will close a period of relatively heightened debate and slightly more open-minded analysis of the state of working class politics in Britain.