New issue of CEFTAA magazine
By John Tognolini
Framed is the quarterly magazine of the Campaign Exposing Frame-ups and Targeting Abuses of Authority. It was born during the fight against the frame-up of Tim Anderson.
Issue 22 takes the
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Political science — 1
"If we get up tomorrow at daybreak and Australia has been declared a republic tonight by referendum but with no other change — just a change of name — then there is actually no difference." — Governor-General Bill
By Mike Karadjis
In recent debate in Green Left Weekly over the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, two of the PLO's profoundly democratic positions have been raised: the 1974 position of an independent Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and
By Max Lane
MANILA — Fifteen thousand workers from the city of Manila assembled on September 14 to establish a new trade union centre, the Union of Workers for Change (BMP).
More than 700 delegates from more than 200 unions, representing
By Dave Wright
HOBART — APPM's Burnie and Wesley Vale paper mills will be sold to the giant multinational Amcor Ltd. The deal, worth $415 million, guarantees Amcor — owners of APPM's domestic rival APM — a monopoly of the fine paper market
Karen people of Thailand
By Catheryn Thompson
I recently interviewed Ruggit Srisarin, a masters student at Tasmania University who recently visited the Karen people, who live on the border between Thailand and Burma. In Burma the Karen are
Seminar defends public sector
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — State teachers' campaign to defend the public education system will be a "long-term struggle", Shane Groth, Queensland Teachers Union vice-president, told a seminar here on September
Station staff oppose automatic ticket
By Garry Walters
MELBOURNE — A September 8 stop-work meeting of suburban railway station staff resolved unanimously to support the Public Transport Union (PTU) opposition to plans to introduce an
By Liam Mitchell
ADELAIDE — A seminar here on September 8 raised a number of doubts and reservations in the Aboriginal community about the government-sponsored reconciliation process. The 50 participants were told that there are concerns that
By Ana Kailis
Australian soldiers are now on combat duty on Bougainville, according to reports from Radio Free Bougainville.
This follows the September 6 admission in parliament by defence minister Senator Robert Ray that Australian troops
The Story of Qiu Ju
A film by Zhang
Yimou
Showing at Melbourne's Nova Cinema from September
30
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Zhang Yimou won international attention with his previous
films Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red
Lantern,
Those with an eye for detail may have noticed an ad in the last few issues for regional meetings of the Green Left Association.
The regional meetings are an opportunity for supporters of Green Left Weekly in each region to get together and
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