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You're sacked!

PERTH — One hundred and fifty people joined a 'You're sacked!' demonstration outside the Australian Industrial Relations Commission office on March 27 to protest against the enactment that day of the federal Work Choices legislation. The action

UNITED STATES: Spying on the 'enemy' at home

Dale Mills The FBI has long been known to engage in extensive surveillance of activists in the United States. However, the sheer extent of those operations has shocked civil libertarians following the release of a large amount of material under

MP's prison visit blocked

SYDNEY — On March 23, NSW Labor and Coalition MPs voted to deny a request by Greens parliamentarian Lee Rhiannon to join a NSW Legislative Council inquiry visit to the "Supermax" (maximum security) wing of the Goulburn prison. "The major parties

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Little Britain What kind of publication should Green Left Weekly be? Clearly Dave Riley and I have very different opinions on this, if his review of the Little Britain TV show (GLW #662) is anything to go by. I have also pondered the character of

ISRAEL: One Likud loses, another Likud wins

Sol Salbe Palestinians and their supporters were generally indifferent to the March 28 Israeli election. And for a good reason: they couldn't tell the difference between most of the parties. Few of the parties offered even the most minimal program

Moreland residents welcome migrants, reject racism

Karen Fletcher, Melbourne A rally and march against racism on Sydney Road in Melbourne's City of Moreland attracted more than 120 people on April 1. Chanting "Migrants are welcome, racists are not", the marchers drew smiles and waves from shoppers

A writer of political and social truths

Dickens: His Work and His WorldBy Michael Rosen and Robert IngpenWalker Books 200595 pages REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER According to Peter Ackroyd, Karl Marx once said to Frederick Engels that Charles Dickens had "issued to the world more political and

IRAQ: US massacres unarmed civilians

Doug Lorimer A storm of outrage has been expressed by Shiite politicians against the US occupation forces following a raid by US troops and Iraqi commandos on a Shiite mosque in eastern Baghdad on the evening of March 26. The next day, Iraqi

HAITI: Election result 'a blow to Haitian elite'

Patrick Elie has been a leading figure in the popular movement in Haiti since his youth, during the years of the Duvalier tyranny. He was a minister of the first government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 1991-96. He helped found a political

UNITED STATES: 'We are workers, not criminals'

Barry Sheppard, Los Angeles In what the LA Times called "A thunderous display of clout", up to 1 million immigrants — with immigration papers and without — and their supporters marched through the streets of Los Angeles on March 25 demanding

Police capsicum spray Mamdouh Habib

Raul Bassi, Sydney At about 10.30pm on March 29, dozens of residents gathered together after two young men were gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Blaxcell Street, in Sydney's western suburb of Granville. Among the residents were Mamdouh Habib

Blair gets 'welcome he deserves'

Nick Everett, Canberra British PM Tony Blair received a 21-gun salute and gushing praise from both PM John Howard and Labor leader Kim Beazley when he arrived at federal parliament on March 27. But a more fitting tribute was provided by 150