Israel I
Boaz Magal (Write On, GLW #493) makes several correct criticism of Israel, but then tries to salvage some legitimacy for the Zionist state by saying, "there is no other place the Jews really can call home". If this is true, how do you
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BY FELICITY MEAKINS
KATHERINE — This year the Katherine Regional Stolen Generation committee chose to rename Sorry Day — May 25 — "Healing Day", in a move intended to highlight that reconciliation begins, not finishes, with an apology.
Museworthy: Tampa: For the DrowningWho Were Watched
The air's carcass lieson the earth's bright back.
A newborn baby has been introducedto waterand waggles its headlike an ocean bird.
This is the day coming after the oneon which we gave
BY FELICITY MEAKINS
Indigenous languages and the stolen generations were another casualty of the 2002-03 federal budget. The $7.2 million previously allocated to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) for preserving and
[On June 1, the Socialist Alliance sent the following letter to the
Greens national council.]
Dear comrades and friends,
Last night, at its regular monthly meeting, the national executive
of the Socialist Alliance voted to contact the
SYDNEY — On June 1, activists picketed defence department offices. The protest, called by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, demanded that Australia end its military ties with Indonesia, and called for freedom for Aceh.From Green Left
BY DAVE RILEY
At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private
health-care system. Without specialist doctors on call and guaranteed liability
coverage, private health care much praised by successive Labor and Coalition
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE As the political witch-hunt against the Construction,
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union continues in the form of the royal commission
into the building industry, on May 28 it was revealed that the
Inessa, Lenin's Mistress
By Michael Pearson
Duckworth, 2001
257 pages, $65.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Inessa Armand met Vladimir Lenin in a Paris caf in 1909, so
began one of the most speculated about love affairs on the
[MELBOURNE On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union
seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation.
This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP,
has been an
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns
on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live
up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement.
The workers have
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