BY ALISON
DELLIT
In last weeks Green Left Weekly, I reported on federal Labor
leader Simon Creans public backflip on the ALP's original call for Australian
troops not to participate in a non-UN approved war against Iraq. Many ALP
MPs,
533
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — "We are not anti-globalisation, we are pro-democracy, pro-human rights, pro-food sovereignty. We are not against international trade, it is the capitalist race to the bottom that we are against", declared Anuradha Mittal,
As Palestinians brace themselves for the first anniversary of the Israeli occupation forces' bloody invasion of the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, it has been revealed that an Israeli expert has guided US marine officers through its putrid alleys to
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A number of suburban protests were held on March 29 to demand "No war on Iraq" and "Bring the troops home". Initiated by the Socialist Alliance, the protests were held in West End, Fortitude Valley, Stones Corner and
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
At the end of March, Baxter detainees wrote an open letter to the
Australian people. It said, in part, The government policy is so hard,
so tough they don't want to grant us protection, even on humanitarian
grounds. At
Books Not Bombs protest
The decision on April 2 by the students to call off the march and be satisfied with a rally in Sydney Town Hall Square was an example of excellent decision-making by the Books Not Bombs leadership.
What I object to is the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
According to Victorian Greens refugee spokesperson Pamela Curr, the three remaining asylum seekers on Christmas Island were secretly removed at 3am on March 25.
"A specially chartered plane came in from [Papua] New Guinea", she
BY RAHUL MAHAJAN
Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra prompted a British military spokesperson on March 25 to
BY DOUG LORIMER
"The Iraqi people will administer Iraq", White House press secretary Ari Fleischer declared, appropriately on April Fool's Day. That same day, Jay Garner, the retired US army general who has been selected by the White House to
BY DOUG LORIMER
The White House has claimed that Russian companies are providing assistance to Iraq to help it resist the US-led invasion. The Pentagon has extended this accusation to include Syria, which along with Russia, France and Germany,
Art Sans FrontieresSEAS Art Basement, 66 Hindley Street, AdelaideUntil April 11 (auction at 7pm, April 11)
REVIEW BY JO ELLIS
ADELAIDE — "Nations have imposed borders but art and human rights transcend them", state the organisers of Art Sans
HANS GEBZE is a West Papuan student based in Yogyakarta. He has been involved in political struggle since before 1998. He is a secretary-general of the Alliance of Papuan Students (AMP). Gebze spoke to Green Left Weekly's MAX LANE about the West
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