Issue # 1410      13 May 2009

• Preparing for War - Defence White Paper
• EDITORIAL - Coal mining and our children’s future
• Award for worker solidarity
• BHP’s risky uranium move
• Paid parental leave – still a long way to go
• Pacific Brands: union demands govt action
• Filipino crew refuse to sail ship of shame
• Tieman workers take a stand against lay offs
• Luxury hotels’ desperate race to beat new IR laws
• Asbestos alarm - NSW finding ‘tip of the iceberg’
• Film Review - Samson and Delilah
• Call for moratorium on logging old growth
• Harry Potter star takes stage for Gaza
• Raúl Molina – breaking the silence about Guatemala
• In the US, 539,000 jobs lost in April – good news?
• Georgia - The roses have wilted
• Japanese Communist Party enjoys upsurge
• Rights organisations’ statement - Donor aid shouldn’t underwrite Israeli crimes
• Walmart’s “optimisation”: dirty tricks to lay off workers
• Obama, reform and the role of the left
• CULTURE AND LIFE - Victory Day – A heroic sacrifice never to be forgotten

Articles below available via a PDF of The Guardian:

• Global briefs
• TV programs worth watching
• Letters to the Editor