@box text intr = The Green Left Weekly staff will be taking a break next week to attend the Resistance conference and the CBF protests in Melbourne. The next GLW will be published on October 10.
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BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — On the night of September 15 at around 4am, I was jolted out of bed by the sound of helicopters hovering over the city. This sound in itself has become rather ubiquitous over the last few months, usually signalling an
The United States regards seven states and 29 organisations as being officially "terrorist".
Here's a selection: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan; Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Algeria; Popular Front for the Liberation of
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Two hundred people attended a September 18 public forum entitled "Who's to blame: Middle Eastern people or US foreign policy?". The forum was initiated by the Socialist Alliance.
"Being victims of Israel's terror
BRISBANE — Queensland's DJs, musicians, street performers and rappers have joined the long list of community groups that will be protesting at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October
They will protest in their own funky style on
BY EVA CHENG
Until the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, most mainstream commentators were reluctant to admit that the world was confronting a synchronised new recession. Their tone universally changed after that day: they
Sarah Peart, spokesperson for the O3 to CHOGM Alliance.
The O3 to CHOGM Alliance is organising a blockade of the October 3-6 Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) in Melbourne. The media spokesperson for the group, Sarah Peart's passion about
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "Say no to war! Say no to racism!" will be the theme of the first day of a three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF).
Starting at 7am on October 3, the blockade will be addressed by refugee rights
BY SEAN HEALY
The world's only superpower has declared the "first war of the 21st century", a "new kind of war" against "global terrorism'", a war in which "there are no rules".
In a chilling parallel to threats by Islamic fundamentalists to
BY NJONGONKULU NDUNGANE
Things have changed dramatically in South Africa since our first democratic elections in 1994. Sadly, we are still deeply affected by apartheid's legacies. Of overarching importance to all the people of South Africa is that
BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — Anti-racist activist Sam Watson is running for the Senate in Queensland as a Socialist Alliance candidate. He is a life-long campaigner for the rights of indigenous people. Green Left Weekly caught up with him to find
Jorge Jorquera, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Gellibrand, led a hunger strike from September 21 to 22 outside Maribyrnong detention centre. The protest finished when Jorquera and supporters were attacked with a car.
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