BY MARK WEISBROT
WASHINGTON, DC Last week's trip to South America by US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is Washington's latest response to growing discontent about economic failure in the developing world.
O'Neill, who has become known for
504
A ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the organisation fighting for the national self-determination
of the Tamil people in the island's north and east, has lasted almost six
months.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The suffering of ordinary Palestinians inflicted by the Israeli occupation since September 2000 extends beyond the almost 1700 killed and the more than 20,000 injured by the Israeli army and paramilitary "settlers".
A new report
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
SYDNEY Every Sunday at 9pm, Green Left Weekly readers in Sydney
can escape the usual Hollywood tripe for two hours and enjoy radical news
and current affairs analysis. Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) broadcasts
a mix of documentaries,
BY SIMON BUTLER
Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist
Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses
along the east coast.
Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees
BY BOB BURTON
The Australian government has defended its embassy officials in Jakarta who lobbied Indonesian security forces and officials to deal with "illegal miners" at an Australian-owned mine. In three separate incidents after the lobbying
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and
Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Stephen H. NorwoodUniversity of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill, 2002328 pp, $50 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On 26 May, 1937, United Automobile Workers
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY In NSW in the 2001 federal election the swing against the
ALP was twice the national average. Federal Labor's posture as pro-worker
and a defender of public services such as schools and hospitals could not
hold
[To add your name to this statement email <nick.everett@lycos.com>.]
US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with "weapons of mass
Fond Memories of Cuba
Despite his use of the tired old cliche "cappuccino revolutionaries", David Bradbury's criticisms of Cuban socialism (Write On, #501) may well be valid. At least it is good to see this issue being debated (if that is the word)
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA The ACT conference of the Australian Labor Party on July 26 voted to end the ALP's support for mandatory detention of asylum seekers. A number of motions initiated by the Labor for Refugees group were passed
- Previous page
- Page 3
- Next page