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Le Pen: Pauline Hanson's big brother?

By Sam Wainwright PARIS — With the National Front (FN) registering up to 20% in polls and in control of four local councils, its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen recently boasted, "We have become a movement to be reckoned with, not just in France, but

Action updates

New WA Legislative Council PERTH — A rally of around 100 Greens and trade unionists on May 27 celebrated the end of Coalition control of the state Legislative Council. A new upper house elected in mid-December included three Greens WA

Congo: Tshisekedi supporters whip up chauvinism

By Norm Dixon Seemingly oblivious to the fact that Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL) achieved more in the struggle against the Mobutu dictatorship in eight months than the Kinshasa-based

Indonesians reject Suharto's election fraud

By Max Lane Two days after the elections in Indonesia, interim official results are giving President Suharto's Golkar party 74% of the vote, the Islamic United Development Party (PPP) about 23% and the puppet Indonesian Democratic Party

'Suharto will have to jail all the youth'

Green Left Weekly's Melanie Sjoberg spoke to People's Democratic Party (PRD) activist Wilson, while waiting in a holding cell at the South Jakarta Court on May 26. The trials of PRD activists arrested since the Suharto government's July 27 crackdown

Sole parents' pension threatened

Sole parents' pension threatened By Maureen Germein The federal budget announced that from next March the sole parent pension will be merged with the parenting allowance in a new payment called "parenting payment". While the government says

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. 9point = Access News — Melbourne

A battler of history

The People's Champion — Fred Paterson, Australia's Only Communist Party Member of ParliamentBy Ross FitzgeraldUniversity of Queensland Press, 1997.312 pp., $26.95 (pb) Review by John Nebauer In 1944, Fred Paterson was elected as the member for

Write on: Letters to the editor

@letter head = Sustainability solutions I'm pleased that in Peter Boyle's letter "Socialism and sustainability" (GLW #274), he writes that I'm right. He may be astonished to know that I heartily agree with him, from my own observation, about

Protests hit Turkish invasion

Since the invasion of southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) by 80,000 Turkish troops backed by tanks and helicopters on May 14, a series of protests have occurred around Australia. Arty Killis and Maurice Sibelle write from Melbourne that more than 100

Newcastle protesters outnumber Hanson supporters 3 to 1

By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — More than 4000 people protested against Pauline Hanson's May 30 public meeting in Newcastle. The atmosphere was electric as anti-racists confidently demonstrated that we were not prepared to accept racism here.

A two-week issue

A two-week issue Green Left Weekly is taking a mid-year break next week. The next issue will be dated June 18.