[Marxism] Finger-licking greed: Look out McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC! - Green Left Weekly #644, September 28, 2005

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Green Left Weekly #644, September 28, 2005

Finger-licking greed: Look out McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14.htm>

The Australian government has announced plans to allow employers like
McDonald's and KFC
to further exploit young workers and apprentices, just as SA Unions
released a report showing many young workers on individual contracts
already receive shoddy pay, conditions and treatment in the workplace.
[Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14.htm>

* Finger-licking greed
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14b.htm>
* NEW ZEALAND: 'Supersize my pay!'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14c.htm>
* Join Resistance!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14e.htm>
* Look out McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14f.htm>

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UN speech: Venezuela's Chavez slams Bush
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p28.htm>

``We are aware of a frightening neoliberal globalisation, but there is
also the reality of an interconnected world that we have to face not as
a problem but as a challenge. We could, on the basis of national
realities, exchange knowledge, integrate markets, interconnect, but at
the same time we must understand that there are problems that do not
have a national solution: radioactive clouds, world oil prices,
diseases, warming of the planet or the hole in the ozone layer. These
are not domestic problems...'' [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p28.htm>

* VENEZUELA: 'The new Venezuela is a socialist Venezuela'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p17.htm>

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International News

# UN speech: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez slams Bush
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p28.htm>
# MEXICO: Growing discontent met with state terror
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p16.htm>
# VENEZUELA: 'The new Venezuela is a socialist Venezuela'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p17.htm>
# VENEZUELA: Challenges for the workers' movement
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p18.htm>
# PARAGUAY: US military prepares to 'spread democracy'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p19.htm>
# Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p13.htm>
# UNITED STATES: The Iraq syndrome
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p20.htm>
# UNITED STATES: Hundreds of thousands protest against war
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p20b.htm>
# IRAQ: British troops assault Basra's central police station
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p21.htm>
# UNITED STATES: 'The problem in Iraq is the US', says war veteran
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p21b.htm>
# IRAN: US and EU push WMD frame-up
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p22.htm>
# ISRAEL: Police drop investigation into murder of 13 Arab citizens
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p22b.htm>
# GERMANY: Left Party makes big electoral gains
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p23.htm>
# SCOTLAND: Socialists fight two by-elections
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p23b.htm>
# NEW ZEALAND: Labour likely to head coalition government
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p24.htm>
# In Brief <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p24b.htm>

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Comment and Analysis

# Dirt cheap: Young workers ripped off
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14.htm>
# Finger-licking greed
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14b.htm>
# NEW ZEALAND: 'Supersize my pay!'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14c.htm>
# Apprentice left with life-threatening injuries
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14d.htm>
# Join Resistance! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14e.htm>
# Look out McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC!
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p14f.htm>
# Howard begins IR counter attack
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p10.htm>
# Andrews takes Bracks to court over contracts
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p10b.htm>
# More 'New Orleans' in store for the poor
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p11.htm>
# State watch <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p11b.htm>
# Letter from Scott Parkin
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p12b.htm>
# ASIO terrorises refugees
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p12c.htm>
# Negligence, malpractice and stolen wages
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p6.htm>
# Rail fight heats up in the Hunter
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p8.htm>
# Five years' jail for just hanging around?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p8b.htm>
# John Pilger slams Howard's anti-terror laws
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p9.htm>

Australian News

# Geelong community turns out for the unions
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p2b.htm>
# Iraqi unionist tours Australia
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p2.htm>
# Publication schedule
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p2d.htm>
# DEWR workers vote on union agreement
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p4.htm>
# Members First to contest national CPSU election
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p4b.htm>
# Centrelink workers vote for action on agreement
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p4c.htm>
# Country towns say 'no' to new work laws
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5.htm>
# Safety rep victimised at Australian Envelopes
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5b.htm>
# Councils under pressure not to offer AWAs
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5c.htm>
# IR laws discussed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5d.htm>
# Palestine solidarity groups hold national meeting
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5e.htm>
# Calls grow for Sartor to resign
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5f.htm>
# 'Viva Venezuela' fiesta
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p5g.htm>
# Tasmanian health professionals hold stopworks
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p7.htm>
# Students face increased police surveillance
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p7b.htm>
# NSW Labor's first by-election promise broken
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p7c.htm>
# Welfare changes still leave many vulnerable
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p7d.htm>
# 'Friends for almost 25 years'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p7f.htm>

Cultural Dissent

# When artists threaten the state
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p25.htm>
# Too painful to hug <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p25b.htm>
# Peter Denis Kevans 1939-2005: the battlers' poet
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p26.htm>
# World sends us barking mad
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p26b.htm>

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