Briggs Bomba The cruel impact of the Zimbabwean crisis on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans can no longer be fully described through terms such as rate of inflation, percentage unemployment, GDP, and so forth. Today one has to talk in terms of the
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Doug Lorimer According to the September 11 Washington Post, Colonel Peter Devlin, chief of intelligence for the US Marine Corps in Iraq, sent a secret report to the Pentagon on August 16 saying that the 30,000 US marines, soldiers and sailors
Green Left Weekly is taking a one-week break. The next issue will be dated October 11.
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Spokespeople for the main Venezuelan left parties that are campaigning for the re-election of socialist President Hugo Chavez on December 3 have generally supported Chavez's September 9 call for the formation of a
Dale Mills A new law, the Military Commissions Act, currently before the US Congress has prompted sharp opposition from some unexpected quarters — members of the US military, judiciary and congress. The bill is the Bush administration's attempt
MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at Toyota went on strike for three days after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was stood down by management on August 29. When Toyota relocated its Port Melbourne production facility to
Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas Walter Gaviria, president of the Latin American Parliament, spoke briefly to Green Left Weekly on September 1, during a march to greet President Hugo Chavez, who had returned from an overseas trip. The campaign
Pablo Alfonso and Wilfredo Cancio Isla, two of the Miami Herald's most recalcitrant journalists, have been fired in the wake of a scandal involving them receiving US government payments to appear on Radio Marti and TV Marti to transmit anti-Cuba
Nick Fredman The fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the US was marked by much of the corporate media in a subdued and reflective fashion. The ongoing bloodshed and chaos in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the brutal, but
Simon Cunich, Sydney For the first time in a number of years, the left activist tickets in the Sydney University student representative council elections, which finished on September 21, posed a serious challenge to Labor students' dominance of the
SYDNEY — Forty members of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation and supporters from the union movement protested outside the James Hardie shareholders' meeting on September 19. "It's outrageous that we're still asking James Hardie Industries to pay
Art for quake victims ArtquakeStone Gallery at Eastside Arts (Paddington markets, Sydney)October 7, view from 10am, auction at 3pm. PREVIEW BY REBECCA CONROY As the monsoon season draws near, post-earthquake recovery in Indonesia is increasingly
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