200 issues of Green Left Weekly &amp&amp

Congratulations on your 200th issue! A special vote of appreciation for the ongoing and excellent coverage of events in East Timor and in Indonesia. The struggle for self-determination and human rights in East Timor, and for democracy and workers rights in Indonesia are well served by the Green Left Weekly.
Keep up the good work! Viva East Timor!
Best wishes from the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (S.A.) Committee.

Bob Hanney on behalf of CIET (SA)

My heartfelt congratulations to Green Left Weekly on your 200th issue. At a time when the left worldwide faces many difficulties and is far too fragmented, GLW contributes a great deal to our common task of rebuilding and renewal. You do a great service by linking activists to one another and by providing excellent and consistent "information across borders". For many of us here in the US, GLW is the best source of news and analysis of movements and events not just in Australia but throughout the Pacific region. I also value GLW as a forum for its regular discussions of movement¬ building and left-building strategies, which again are relevant not just to you in Australia. Finally, I appreciate GLW for the spirit of militancy and internationalism that pervades the paper. These are bottom-line qualities, indispensable for revitalizing a global left and for any "red-green" synthesis; and it is much to your credit that they are evident on every page.

Max Elbaum, Executive Editor, CrossRoads magazine, Oakland, California, USA

Congratulations, Green Left Weekly, on being a vital voice for democracy in this age of media concentration."

Senator Christabel Chamarette

GLW is always a strong voice calling for discussion and debate on issues facing feminists.

Adrienne Barett, Women's Research Officer, Student Union, Victorian University of Technology, St Albans

The Shearers and Rural Workers Union sends regards and best wishes to all at Green Left Weekly and hearty congratulations on achieving the mammoth task of knocking out the 200th edition.
Given the current climate, any advancement should be seen to be a major success and the publishers, workers and contributors to Green Left are to be congratulated for the efforts made in spreading the news and views of progressive people from across the nation.
Keep up the good work. Regards in comradeship, from the officials/workers and members at the SRWU.

Stephen Roach, General Secretary

Green Left Weekly is one of the few places where progressive alternative organisations such as Friends of the Earth can gain consistent coverage and read views of similar organisations around the world. A really good read and serves an incredibly important political function.

John Hallam, Friends of the Earth, Sydney

The Green Left has grown and developed into one of the most important voices within the national community. It is a voice that speaks forward on issues of importance to those who do not have a voice. It gives power and vision, and it gives support to those who have no power and who have to struggle for a place within our community. I totally endorse Green Left and its dedicated staff. This world would be a far more threatening place if we did not have the shield of the Green Left! Congratulations.

Sam Watson, Aboriginal activist, Brisbane

I would like to express our gratitude for all the coverage Green Left Weekly has given to the East Timor struggle. Also I would like to congratulate GL for the terrific work getting out this independent newspaper campaigning on human rights and social justice issues and the real situation of the people in Australia, around the world and especially in East Timor.

Jose Gusmao on behalf of CNRM

A Special Nostradamus' Media Watch Prediction: Green Left Weekly fends off several take-over bids by Rupert Murdoch and thwarts his attempts to form a new SuperLeft TV series, where editors of small leftists and environmental publications are paid multimillion-dollar contracts to debate current economic and political issues, while nude wrestling in jelly.
Green Left Weekly receives a special UN Media Prize for being the only newspaper in the world not to mention the O.J. Simpson trial, and circulation skyrockets.
By early 1996 Green Left Weekly is outselling the Financial Review as the newspaper to be seen with under your arm in the CBDs of Australia, and Packer publications, with plummeting sales, resort to employing armies of retired company chairpersons on street corners to reach break-even sales.

Craig Cormick, Canberra

We thank Green Left Weekly and the DSP for its continued support for the HEMP issue. We really need alternative political views. Green Left Weekly is one of the most consistent alternative voices in the country.

Tony Kneipp, on behalf of Help End Marijuana Prohibition, Brisbane

The Melbourne University Student Union would like to congratulate Green Left Weekly as an alternative media outlet which is accessible to students. In this age of antiªstudent unionism legislation, a journal with thought provoking articles, not subject to politically motivated censorship by governments or tertiary administrations, is incredibly valuable to all.
Long may you continue to publish.

Emma Johnston, President, Melbourne University Student Union

Congratulations to Green Left Weekly workers on issue 200! It's a mark of your energy and commitment to keeping open the eyes, ears and voice of Australia's best alternative paper.

Tim Anderson, Sydney

As the editor of an 82 year old weekly publication of the left can I send congratulations to Green Left Weekly on seeing through its first four years successfully. That alone, given the state of the left worldwide, is no mean achievement. What has particularly impressed me about Green Left Weekly over the years I have been reading it though, has been its internationalist perspective. To skim through the most recent issue to have arrived on my desk, for example, I looked at articles on Russia, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Haiti, Ireland, Austria, Japan, South Africa, the Solomon islands and many, many more.
Global capitalism requires global resistance and Green Left Weekly is important not only to greens and the left in Australia but to everyone who shares a common belief in a better world across the globe.
All the best, not only for the next four or forty years but for the next few hundred. Let's hope it doesn't take that long.

Steve Platt, Editor, New Statesman & Society

Congratulations to Green Left Weekly! Your paper is vital in the search for the truth behind the capitalist press. It is also an organiser of the Political Left of Australia. May it prosper in its political and social development by increasing subscriptions and readership.

Norma Nord, Left Connections, Brisbane

We would like to thank Green Left Weekly for supporting us in our struggle to maintain public housing. Keep up the good work.

Public Tenants Union, Melbourne

Revolutionary greetings across the miles!
On the occasion of GLW's 200th issue we extend a warm proletarian hand of congratulations.
Although we got acquainted with GLW only in 1993, in the midst of our struggle, and eventual split, with the Stalinist-Maoist center of the Communist Party, we were immediately impressed by the paper. Striking for us was, and still is, the broad range of subjects it tackles, the sharp analyses of news and issues, and its wide scope of coverage and circulation.
Of utmost help to us in our particular line of work is the news and topics in the international front which GLW religiously covers. It has been instrumental in filling in the international section of Kamalayang Sosyalista (Socialist Consciousness) — an educational and theoretical bulletin for party cadres and members and mass activists that we publish. GLW in effect has been a contribution not only to our small unit, but to the broader ranks which our paper reaches.
Looking forward to the next 200 issues and mabuhay (long live) to GLW!

Regional Education Department, Manila-Rizal Regional Party Committee, Philippines

Green Left is special because it works to expose all forms of injustice — economic, sexual, racial and environmental — and links people across borders and struggles. It can be proud of its part in the struggles of Indonesians for democracy and social justice, and East Timorese and West Papuans for human rights, self«determination and cultural survival. 200 issues — well done!

Anthony Burke, Aksi Canberra

Congratulations on your 200th issue! We also wish to thank you for the wonderful way in which you help people who areinvolved in all kinds of social issues. Without the help of Green Left Weekly the voices of those people would not be heard.
Australians Against Executions are concerned in educating the community about the horrors of state execution in overseas countries. Innocent people and mentally retarded persons are killed because they are too poor to afford an expensive lawyer, but mainstream newspapers ignore these people and are only interested in sensationalising particular cases in order to sell papers. Whereas Green Left Weekly, on the other hand, prints the truth and gives a voice to the oppressed by publishing such columns as Looking Out, by Brandon Astor Jones.
Thank you Green Left Weekly!

Stephanie Wilkinson, Australians Against Executions

Green Left Weekly is essential reading for me, and I promote it among the membership, because it provides information and discussion on topics relevant to workers rarely covered in the mainstream media. As far as my job goes, it's an extremely useful research tool. Green Left is just wonderful!

Claire Moore, Queensland State Secretary, Community and Public Sector Union

Congratulations on your 200th issue. Green Left has been of great use to me in making sense of difficult international issues, like the transformation of Eastern Europe, and the wars in Bosnia and Bougainville.
It is also vital in conveying information on the solidarity movements, such as that for the independence of Timor, that are largely ignored by the establishment media.
My special thanks to the staff, who I know work as hard and as long as any journalists in the world.

Keith Locke, Alliance Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Auckland, New Zealand

I particularly value the coverage Green Left Weekly gives to the struggles for freedom by Aboriginal people and in countries close to Australia such as Indonesia, East Timor and Bougainville. Keep it up.

Bob Berghout, National Tertiary Education Union Branch President, Newcastle

Green Left Weekly has always supported the struggles of working class people and has always given very good coverage to industrial disputes. Keep up the good work.

Helmut Gries, Federal Organiser, Australian Workers Union, Melbourne

Green Left Weekly is great because it tells things like they are. There is no censorship like in the mainstream papers. People at school like reading it for the information and because it says what other people are doing in the campaign against nuclear testing. It's the only paper I can read and feel it represents my views.

Dean O'Keefe, Students Against Nuclear Testing, Canberra

I am very grateful to Green Left Weekly for advocating the struggles of the peoples of the world, especially that of Pacific Islanders who are demanding independence and an end to nuclear testing. Green Left Weekly assists our movement. I gave a copy of Green Left to the Cook Islands Environment Minister. He didn't know about this support in Australia until he read Green Left Weekly! He was very impressed about the work you're doing. I wish Green Left all the best for the next two hundred issues!

Junior Hakaoro, Cook Islands

Solidarity greetings to Green Left Weekly on 200 issues of your paper. In a time of increasing concentration of media power in fewer and fewer conservative hands the role of the alternative press is more vital than ever. I could give no better message than to repeat the words of the Sinn Fein Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike in an English prison 75 years ago this October. In a prophetic statement he gave what could be a motto for your paper and for all progressive movements:
"If Ireland is to be regenerated we must have internal unity; if the world is to be regenerated we must have worldwide unity, not of government but of brotherhood. To this great end every individual, every nation has a duty; and that the end may not be missed we must continually turn for the correction of our philosophy to reflecting on the common origin of the human race, on the beauty of the world that is the heritage of all, our common hopes and fears, and in the greatest sense the mutual interests of the peoples of the earth."

Micheal MacDonncha, editor of An Phoblacht/Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Fein in Ireland

Congratulations Green Left Weekly! Green Left provides an opportunity to read the truth about the issues confronting the union movement. Most of us on the TWU executive get the Green Left and find it to be informative and enjoyable reading. Keep up the good work.

Hughie Williams, Queensland State Secretary, Transport Workers Union

As an occasional contributor, may I offer my heartiest congratulations on your 200th issue. Green Left fills such an important need — great range of stories, lots of good information we can't get anywhere else, non-sectarian (mostly!) and well-designed, lively format. A tribute to the commitment of all concerned. Keep on keeping on — Green Left is quite irreplaceable.

Vivienne Porzsolt, Sydney

The importance of Green Left is the coverage it brings us about current concerns facing the working class. For as long as we have been subscribing to Green Left, we've found it indispensable for being involved in the struggle. It's our duty, as working class activists, to advise everyone who can subscribe to Green Left, do it now!

Ovidio Orellana, Australian representative, Guatemalan Workers Party (PGT), a member of the URNG

The staff and volunteers of 4ZZZ FM congratulate you on your 200th edition of Green Left Weekly. Community radio stations such as 4ZZZ FM have found Green Left Weekly to be a valuable resource to counter the mainstream media monopoly in Australia.
We use your paper regularly as a source for story leads and often quote directly from the newspaper. We also welcome the views of people involved in struggles in the community and support Green Left Weekly in putting forward the voice of the voiceless in Australia.
Our radio station also recognises the valuable contribution that Green Left Weekly has made to supporting and promoting information and debate among the left internationally.
Our experience in using Green Left Weekly has been a positive one. We have found that the contacts in the "Meetings, Parties, Anything" section enable us to provide up to date information in the struggles of our time. Recently, we read a story on the new private jails in Victoria and, through the newspaper, were able to develop contacts to make the story more balanced and relevant. Information on the ongoing protest over the resumption of French nuclear testing has been relevant and informative.
Community Radio 4ZZZ FM supports your continued publishing efforts and wishes you well for your next 200 editions.

Brendan Greenhill for the 4ZZZ FM Collective

On behalf of Australian Aid for Ireland I wish to congratulate the Green Left Weekly on this very special occasion. You should all be deservedly proud of achieving your 200th edition and we look forward to sharing your next 200 editions. Australian Aid for Ireland has enjoyed a long association with the Green Left Weekly and we are very grateful for all the support shown to us over the years. We salute you and wish you continued success with your paper.

Nora Richardson, President, Australian Aid for Ireland (Qld)

The struggle against open economy and imperialist hegemony exercised under the guise of World Bank, the Monetary Fund and other Agencies to be won by the Socialist and all downtrodden people in Sri Lanka and the Asian Region. The majority of our people live without basic requirement of food, cloth and shelter. Toiling people are struggling to survive. We are fighting against Government position that put profit before people. Socialist and the working class movement in our country today are striving to teach the majority to treat all others alike. GLW certainly help us to reinforce the essential feelings of solidarity in linking similar thoughts for social justice. Green Left deals with global matters with great compassion and clarity. It is highly regarded by us for its professionalism and creativity as well. We read every page with enthusiasm and interest as the Media in our region are silent on some of the areas enlightened by GLW.

Gunasena Mahanama, Samajawadi Janatha Pakshaya, Sri Lanka

Congratulations on the issue of the 200th GLW. It's a great informative paper and I always look forward to receiving it. The news it contains is very enlightening and keeps us up to date on world affairs. It is a great pity there is not many more progressive thinking people in this great country of ours. Keep up the good work and the best of luck.

Ernie Gare, Birkdale Qld

In a world where the mainstream media has become like an echo chamber, Green Left is outstanding as a consistently reliable, informed and incisive source of news and comment about the majority of humanity and its struggles. For me, it's indispensable! Congratulations on the 200th issue: a brilliant achievement.

John Pilger, London

On behalf of the 17 workers I would like to thank Green Left for all the solidarity shown to us and for telling the truth about our struggle. I have found Green Left Weekly to be the only paper where you can express your point of view without any change of "line"! Congratulations to all the people at Green Left for their efforts in promoting the struggles of migrant workers.

Jorge Rodriguez, on behalf of the 17 Spanish-speaking workers who were on strike for nine months at Steel Line Doors

Green Left Weekly has consistently dealt with issues other papers ignore. This is particularly the case with politics in this country. It's proven itself to be considered, competent and compassionate. Anti-nuclear activists around the country use it and respect it.

Dave Sweeney, anti-nuclear activist and researcher, Friends of the Earth, Melbourne

As a subscriber to Green Left Weekly, I have found the paper to be an invaluable alternative news source. I rely on the intelligently written articles to maintain a truthful knowledge of national and international affairs.

Kate Conson, Ashfield NSW

I cannot speak too highly of the GLW and the coverage of the East Timorese struggle for self-determination.
At a recent conference in Canberra I asked two journalists from the Australian how they would be describing East Timor — "As part of Indonesia? As the 27th province of Indonesia?" I asked. Ashamed, they said that such references to East Timor in the Australian were not their doing. "Talk to Greg Sheridan", they told me.
It is a relief to read a paper that is not severely compromised by this brand of "political correctness". Rather, the GLW is marked by integrity on East Timor.
More than that, it is good to be reading factual reports by Max Lane, John Land and others, who are actively involved in the struggle for liberation — the struggle that is also one to free ourselves from the shame of our government's collaboration.
I would like to pay tribute to the East Timorese, and also the handful of other activists of all political persuasions, who have been there from the start, in there for the long haul on East Timor. To them, and to the GLW which has done so much in 200 issues, Well done!

Stephen Langford, secretary, Australia-East Timor Association of NSW

Congratulations on your 200th issue. With thanks and appreciation for your constant support for the struggle of our people. Best wishes for the next 200 issues!

Alfonso Corte-Real, on behalf of the East Timorese Community, Brisbane

As a long-time subscriber to Green Left, I find that it is valuable in providing a perspective on issues that are ignored or distorted in mainstream media. The trade union movement, East Timor and Aboriginal land rights are just some of the subjects that I know will be dealt with in depth and with respect. Congratulations on your 200th!

Rosie Scott, Glebe NSW

Green Left Weekly' is an agitator for the coming world order.
We in Sri Lanka benefited enormously from the Green Left Weekly' It took us to a wide range of struggles taking place in Australia and elsewhere in the world. Combined with International Viewpoint published by the Fourth International, Green Left Weekly became one of our main sources of information about the world outside. In bourgeois journals, there is hardly any news on workers struggles. But still worse when it came to struggles of women, gay, and indigenous people. This is when Green Left Weekly was most useful to us.
On the other hand Green Left Weekly gave us tremendous encouragement by publishing and telling the world over, how we fight for democracy, better environment, right of self determination of Tamil speaking people and socialism.

Vickramabahu Karunarathne, Nava Sama Samaja Party, Sri Lanka

GLW has always been on the side of working class people struggling for their rights. Between us, public radio and GLW, we can have a real impact on the media monopoly. Congratulations on building an alternative media that represents the interests of working class people.

Jay Estorninho, General Programme Coordinator, 3CR Public Radio

Without GLW, the left in Australia would be far less effective than it is. Politics is too important to be left to the plastic dummies in parliament, that shopfront for the capitalist class. GLW helps to take politics out of parliament and put it back into the streets and workplaces where it belongs.
I am the Secretary of the CPSU delegates' committee in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health in Canberra, CPSU Branch Conference delegate in the ACT, and CPSU alternate delegate to the ACT Trades and Labour Council. GLW reports on the real meaning of the industrial relations strategies of the ALP government, and its executive arm in the top leadership of the ACTU and the national leadership of the CPSU. GLW's coverage of union affairs is committed to the defence of the interests of the union rank and file, and to genuine democratic functioning of the unions.
GLW is not scared of controversy and spirited debate because GLW takes ideas, and the strategies for political action which flow from them, seriously. An openness to the broad range of views which exist on the radical, activist left is a reality rather than a token gesture. There is room to ride your own left wing hobby horse through the pages of GLW. Above all, GLW helps to make the news rather than merely report it. GLW is a paper you feel is yours.

Phil Shannon, Canberra

As an avid reader of left-wing publications from all corners of the globe over the past 25 years, I can state that Green Left is one of the finest radical newspapers in the world today. It has that unusually eclectic mix of critical news analysis, commentary, cultural reports and reviews. I particularly enjoyed the series critiquing postmodernism, which helped to refine my own thinking on the topic.
As a "middle-aged activist", it depresses me to no end to realise how politically demobilised the 1990s are, compared with those marvellously inspiring years of the late 1960s and early 1970s. I admire Green Left for carrying the torch so well over these years, and I can only hope that as we enter the fin de siecle, new upsurges and waves of anti-capitalist rebellion are on the horizon. And Green Left will be there to analyse and nurture it!
Continue the struggle!

Stuart Russell, School of Law, Macquarie University

GLW is to be congratulated for providing a broad forum for alternative and progressive ideas in Australian politics and an avenue for the expression of community protest and social concerns.
As a writer I particularly appreciate the space given to culture, history and the environment.

Justina (Joan) Williams, author Anger and Love

I've watched the development of Green Left Weekly from its first months. At first simply an innovative concept, the paper has since created a new audience for the left in Australia and other countries, exposing and condemning the crimes of present-day capitalism in an accessible and undogmatic way. The range and seriousness of GLW's international coverage has always impressed me, and I find myself repeatedly citing articles from the paper in my own writings. I came to the conclusion long ago that one of the best ways I could influence developments in the international left movement was to be a regular GLW contributor. Congratulations on the 200th issue!

Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow

I would like to extend my congratulations to all of you on the occasion of your 200th issue. When I first saw an issue at the founding convention of the Committees of Correspondence in 1994, I knew I had to subscribe to keep up with all my old comrades in Australia. Each issue is loaded with information about struggles with which we should all be concerned. The articles on Vietnam, the Philippines, and East Timor are of interest to many here in the U.S., and your discussions of movement strategies are relevant to any efforts at building a strong left presence. Keep up the great work!

Joe Miller, National Office Staff, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc, Chicago, USA

Green Left is fresh and fascinating. I rely on it for information which I use in my lectures (so truth and accuracy are essential). Please write some articles questioning the orthodox economic approach to environmental issues, e.g. that the answer is to privatise the oceans, rivers, air etc as these economists claim, and that environmental protection is income elastic, so it will be fixed up later when our income rises.

Peter Harkness, Box Hill North Vic

My English is a special "Hunglish" that some friends of mine in Australia know well because they tried to "translate" it for the Green Left also. But without any personal contacts some friends of mine in Hungary like GLW very much. They say: it is "ours". Being serious, the independent anti-capitalist left in Hungary does not have newspapers of their own (we have only a theoretical journal Ezmelet), so I can understand the importance of your 200th number. I am personally very "envious" of Green Left Weekly because it represents a good "model" for a new leftist newspaper of the modern epoch.
The model means how to connect the basic problems of the world system: the social and cultural inequalities, the concentrated power of the bank capital and international political centers, the exploitation of the poor countries by the core countries, the environmental catastrophe, feminism etc. And the reader can be well informed in a very sophisticated way. And the Green Left does not suffer from the main illness of the leftist newspapers; from being boring. As a historian I like your efforts to connect the theoretical and cultural tradition with the present day. So I like your newspaper because I know that it is a good organisational power on the left in an epoch of a deep crisis in the whole world. In Hungary we are open to the world so we can compare the different leftist newspaper, Green Left is one of the best. I hope that you can be a spiritual and organisational focus point on international scales as well.
We hope we will continue our fruitful cooperation in the future. In solidarity.

Tamas Krausz, Left Alternative, Budapest

When Mr Murdoch's senior editors decide, "We don't think it is in the national interest to run stories from the Bougainville Revolutionary Army's perspective" and Conrad Black's Fairfax press brilliantly reports Australia's bloody war in Bougainville by total silence, it is essential that this war be covered by at least the "rat bag" alternative press — in first place Green Left Weekly. Congratulations! We will feast the victory of Bougainville over the CRA mining company and before your 300th issue!
Continue your great work.

Vikki John, Bougainville Freedom Movement, Sydney

Green Left Weekly is one of the few papers with a consistent class position which while not always popular or indeed the majority view, is very important for a healthy and effective left. Congratulations on the 200th edition.

Bill Ethell, Secretary, CFMEU WA branch

Congratulations, Green Left. A formidable effort to achieve 200 editions. I've been proud to support Green Left in the past and will continue to in the future. Roll on the 500th edition!

Vince George, Organiser, WA Communications, Electrical & Plumbing Union

In my daily work as a campus activist, I've come to value the role GLW has played. Working in the No Fees Campaign on ANU I've seen the value of a newspaper which covers campaigns as they're unfolding, which encourages input from the activists involved and which reflects the debates and successes of those campaigns. The success of such a quality independent paper that has made it so far speaks for itself. Congratulations on your 200th issue.

Sarah Stephen, General Secretary, ANU Student Representative Council

In the conditions of the left today, Green Left Weekly serves an important role in keeping people informed about a number of struggles. Green Left Weekly has improved dramatically over the years and is by far the best newspaper of the left.

Neville Cunningham, former CPA member of 39 years, still active with the "Beehive", Newcastle

Congratulations with the publication of the 200th issue of Green Left. I hope that this excellent weekly, produced and circulated by very hard working young people in the campuses and in the markets in Perth and its suburbs, will survive another 200, 400, 600 or 1000 issues, since every great expedition has to begin with small steps.
I also hope that Green Left will keep on informing the people of Australia and other nations, of the diversity of "green" and "left" struggles of workers, peasants, indigenous peoples and repressed nations in Australia, Aotearoa, Indonesia, Minsupala (Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan), North Kalimantan, Patani, Timor L'este, West Papua and the entire range of "nuclear free Pacific" movements in the region.
Salut, companheros! A luta continua!

George "Rai-lakan" Aditjondro, Indonesian dissident-in-exile

Congratulations to everyone involved! After 4 years I feel proud that I helped to sponsor the paper. Personally, I can't now imagine life without it!
What do I like best? Readers' letters and the debates they stimulate; reviews — from time to time I've seen a film and bought a book I wouldn't have done otherwise because of a review in Green Left; Ain't I a Woman column and other issues we often discuss in my Solo Women's Consumer Group.
Green Left is bought by more and more people — last week when I tripped on the footpath, went sprawling, belongings flung everywhere, a young woman rushed to help me up and gather my shopping bags. She immediately remarked, "Oh, I see you buy Green Left Weekly. It's a great paper, isn't it?"

Connie Frazer Adelaide

I'm looking for the news and analysis of current issues that interest me. Stories the limited Perth mainstream media choose not to tell — about union news; social and environment issues; with a woman's perspective. They can keep our people in the dark but they will hear us singing! Keep the presses rolling Green and Left.

Ruth Ellis, Research Officer, Australian Services Union, Perth

With the demise of most of the other "left" newspapers, it is great to read a survivor that continues to push progressive and political issues from the margin to the mainstream. Keep it up!

Leah Anderson, Australian Services Union activist, Perth