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WORLD HUNGER: 800 million can't afford capitalism

BY PETER BOYLE The world has never produced so much food, there is no overall shortage and food has seldom been so cheap — yet some 800 million people are hungry today. That's the stark reality registered at the second World Food Summit held in

'Mainstream' meets 'alternative'

TogetherDirected by Lukas MoodyssonShowing at Dendy cinemas REVIEW BY MARIA VOUKELATOS Elisabeth tires of her abusive alcoholic husband, so she packs her bags, takes her children and goes off to live with her brother, Goran. Elisabeth is a fairly

Forum discusses AIDS in Africa

BY LYNDA HANSEN BRISBANE — "Pharmaceuticals should be free", declared Mwampole Rita Bridgwood as she addressed a forum on "Africa: a HIV crisis" organised by Amnesty International and Oxfam Community Aid Abroad in West End on June 18. Bridgwood

Chop 'em, chip 'em and burn 'em

ALEX MILNE& TARO KEEFE Are you worried about the greenhouse gases which are emitted by our coal electricity generators? Does it concern you that every time you turn on a light or boil a kettle you are contributing to global warming? Fear not, the

Loose Cannons

Axis of misogyny "We have realised that without countries like Sudan, abortion would have been recognised as a universal human right in a UN document" — Austin Ruse, president of the US Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, quoted in the

Write On: Letters to Green Left Weekly

Nation or religion? Shua Garfield (Write On #495) rightly claims Jews can live peaceably among non-Jews but he must admit to do so they often have to accept and suffer anti-Semitism wherever they so choose to live, hence the Zionist allure of a

'Most ambitious socialist campaign ever'

BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has announced what it describes as "the most ambitions socialist campaign ever for a Tasmanian state election". The Tasmanian Labor government has called an early election for July 20. "We will

Protesters arrested at Narangba irradiation site

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Four people were arrested on June 18 as police and security guards moved in to allow the commencement of surveying and earthmoving works at the site of the proposed nuclear food irradiation facility at Narangba industrial

Eyewitness report: 'Welcome to Christmas Island'

BY ANNE COOMBS Before the arrival of the MV Tampa off Christmas Island last August, the locals were accustomed to "boat people" landing on their island. There was an accepted procedure: One of the port barges would go out with police and a customs

UNITED STATES: Washington's dirty bomb hoax

BY ALAN MAASS On June 10, the US attorney general John Ashcroft announced that an alleged al Qaeda operative, who was plotting to set off a bomb packed with radioactive material in Washington, DC, had been arrested. The announcement sparked a

Ruddock warns public servants

BY SARAH STEPHEN Immigration minister Philip Ruddock, in the June 7 Canberra Times, warned public servants not to get involved in politics by supporting the World Refugee Day rallies for refugees' rights on June 22-23. Andrew Hall, spokesperson

Militant unionists to face trial

BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand