BY RAY HAYES
DARWIN — On June 5, five members of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) were given jail sentences of between 16 and 21 months for "deliberately disrupting the Legislative Assembly" last year. The maximum penalty for this "crime" is
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BY BARRY SHEPPARD& CAROLINE LUND
We met Heinrich Fleischer by accident, at a retirement home in Minneapolis while visiting Caroline's father. Fleischer was born in Germany in 1912, where he studied to be an organist. His lifelong profession was as
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
Thousands of Peruvians are continuing to strike, despite a state of emergency having been imposed by the government on May 27. Strikes and protests have spread like wildfire across the country. On June 3, more than 30,000
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — On June 5, delegates from the metal division of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) voted to hold an industry-wide 24-hour strike on June 12, and an industry-wide mass meeting on
BY SONJA FORSBERG
MELBOURNE — Gaylene Seardon died this week after a long battle with cancer. A single mother, Gaylene was an advocate of the rights of working people, the unemployed, youth, women and all who fought injustice and, as was recalled
Textile workers protest tariff cuts
MELBOURNE — Hundreds of textile and clothing workers from across Victoria rallied in central Melbourne on June 3 to protest against proposed cuts to tariffs on textile imports.
"If the Productivity Commission
BY JIM McILROY& ROBYN MARSHALL
LIMA — Thousands of workers marched through the streets here, and in other Peruvian cities, on June 3 to protest against the declaration of a state of emergency by the government of President Alejandro Toledo, and
In a dramatic new attack on abortion access, on June 4 the US House of Representatives passed a bill by 282 votes to 139, banning late-term abortions.
The bill criminalises the dilation and extraction method of abortion of a live fetus, used after
BY RAISA PAGES
HAVANA — Falling prices in the developing countries' exports of farm produce and the ruin of millions of farmers are the pernicious outcome of neoliberal policies, US professor Peter Rosset from the US Institute of Food and
BY SHANE BENTLEY
Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members may have had a chance to read the April 2003 edition of the Sea and Waterfront Voice. The edition marks the 20th anniversary of the Maritime Unionist Socialist Activities Association
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The TasDEC Global Learning Centre is looking at ways to continue functioning after a March review by its government funding agency threatened to cut $40,000 from TasDec's funding for next year.
TasDEC is the primary
COMMENT BY SOL SALBE
Green Left Weekly is partisan on the issue of Palestine and Israel. Like some others on the Jewish left, I regard this as redressing the balance of media coverage on this issue.
My own background as a child of two Holocaust
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