Venezuela: Democracy or dictatorship?; Abolish Work Choices! -- Green Left Weekly #734 December 5, 2007 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:37:07 -0600 (CST) Green Left Weekly #734 December 5, 2007 http://www.greenleft.org.au/ RSS feed http://www.greenleft.org.au/rss.php Venezuela: Democracy or dictatorship? VENEZUELA: Much coverage of the Venezuelan revolution in the corporate-owned media presents a severely distorted picture of what is occurring in Venezuela and the nature and actions of the government of President Hugo Chavez. James Jordan, the emergency response coordinator for the US-based Venezuela Solidarity Network (), attempts to answer some of the key lies and distortions. Venezuelan referendum: Democracy prevails, the Bolivarian revolution continues ****************************************************************************** John Pilger: 'Support GLW!' Green Left Weekly $250,000 Fighting Fund 2007: Help bury Howard's agenda Enjoy reading Green Left Weekly? Want to help support our work? Why not make an online donation http://www.greenleft.org.au/donate.php. **************************************************************************** Unionists call for Work Choices' complete abolition The November 24 rout of the Howard government owed much to the work of the organised labour movement. Of the marginal Coalition seats targeted by the Your Rights at Work (YRAW) campaign, 20 of 24 have fallen to Labor (including John Howards own seat of Bennelong); the other four remain in doubt. Most of those who voted for Labor did so believing that Labor would abolish Work Choices, as promised by Kevin Rudd on October 14, the official start to the election campaign. 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