GLW issue 471, published 2001-11-14.

'Labour standards'?

BY SEAN HEALY While many trade unionists are embracing the need for greater global solidarity and interconnection, there are still some who want a return to the old protectionism, albeit under a new guise. The International Confederation of Free

Write on: Letters to the editor

Bullies Since the end of World War II, the USA has been the biggest and toughest kid on the block, bullying mercilessly Iraq (genocide), Cuba (40 years' blockade), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, little Grenada, Vietnam, Chile (Pinochet's ghastly

Stop the war!

December 9 protests against the war in Afghanistan Adelaide: Phone (08) 8231 6982 for details. Brisbane: Stop the bombing! Troops home now! Roma Street Forum, 3pm. Phone NOWAR on (07) 3371 3640, 0412 563 921 or (07) 3831 2644 for more

PAKISTAN: Birth of a new peace movement

BY AMIR SUHAIL RAWALPINDI — Thousands of peace activists protested in the northern city of Rawalpindi on November 6, demanding an end to the US bombing of Afghanistan and denouncing the terror of religious fundamentalism. The rally was

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Australian News

Socialist Alliance has 'a good start'

BY ALISON DELLIT "We stood up for our principles against the power of the major parties and we have stood tall", indigenous activist Sam Watson, the lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Queensland, told the alliance's Brisbane

Protesters demand refugee rights

BY NADEEM ANSARI CANBERRA — More than 500 people turned out on November 4 to demand an end to the war on refugees in a protest organised by the Refugee Action Collective. First to address the crowd was Wadjularbinna from the Aboriginal Tent

Further Australian News

International News

PHILIPPINES: Left merger a great leap forward

The regroupment of the revolutionary left in the Philippines has taken a great leap forward, with the August announcement by the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (SPP, Socialist Party of Labour) and the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipina (PMP,

WORLD ECONOMY: 'The crisis is consequence of failure of neo-liberal globalisation'

BY FIDEL CASTRO [The following is an abridged version of the first part of a nationally televised address given on November 2 by Cuban President Fidel Castro.] To characterise the current situation, one could say, by way of a very brief summary,

Further International News

Editorial

Bring the troops home now!

The re-election of Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government in the November 10 federal poll was the result of resurgence of anti-Arab racism and xenophobia, whipped up by the government and the corporate media. This has been used to justify

General

AFGHANISTAN: US 'hawks' escalate bombing

BY EVA CHENG As Washington's war against Afghanistan neared the end of its first month, US President George Bush raised the stakes by introducing the highly lethal 6800-kilogram "Daisy Cutter" bomb. "Like a nuclear weapon without the fallout" is

UNITED STATES: The world's 'leading terrorist state'

Noam Chomsky, a longtime political activist, writer, and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, and human rights. He was

Further General

Cultural Dissent

An eye for the militant

Freelance photographer John Immig has an eye for the unusual and the militant in his series of recent photographs documenting the rise of new anti-war movement. While some of his shots will be featured in coming issues of Green Left Weekly, they are

Iranian filmmaker faces execution

Iranian Filmmaker Tahmineh Milani faces execution if convicted in her trial in Tehran. Milani was arrested on the orders of Iran's Revolutionary Council as she was promoting the film The Hidden Half, which she wrote and directed. The Hidden Half

Further Cultural Dissent

Boondocks won't be silenced

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