GLW issue 535, published 2003-04-23.

ATTAC Australia launched

BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended the launch of ATTAC (Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen) Australia on April 9 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. The Tobin Tax is a 1% levy on all international currency transactions

SYRIA: What's behind US threats?

BY DOUG LORIMER After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US

Loose Cannons

Hoping another US invasion? "So, they [US officials] haven't been able to confirm reports he [Saddam Hussein] was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria." — Multi-millionaire NBC Today Show host Katie Curic, April 10. He

Afghan refugee family fights to stay

BY SARAH STEPHEN Mohib and Fatima Sarwari and their four children were arrested by police at their home in Launceston, Tasmania, on December 5 and taken to the Baxter detention centre. Their 'crime"? They failed to correctly notify the immigration

Further

Australian News

Apartheid in Northbridge

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH � The WA Government is again bending to the wishes of the law-and-order lobby and the business community, this time at the expense of young people, especially Aboriginal young people. On April 15, Premier Geoff

Court declares limits on detention

BY SARAH STEPHEN On April 15, the full bench of the Federal Court found that the government has limited powers to detain asylum seekers, and cannot detain them indefinitely as they await deportation. The court found that, in order to

Further Australian News

International News

UNITED STATES: 'We look the other way when it suits us'

BY NORM DIXON "The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International

SOUTH AFRICA: Resistance to privatisation continues

BY PATRICK BOND The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale of the

Further International News

Editorial

Labor pays for lousy position on war

There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The

Cultural Dissent

Hair's anti-war message as relevant as ever

HairDirected by David AtkinsLyrics by Gerome Ragni and James RadoMusic by Galt MacDermotWith Matt Hetherington, Kane Alexander, Mitchell Butal and Kelly AbbeyCapitol Theatre, Sydney, until May 8Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, from May 20. REVIEW

The Pianist: An inspiring story of survival and resistance

REVIEW BY BRIAN JONES The PianistDirected by Roman PolanskiWritten by Ronald Harwood and Wladyslaw SzpilmanWith Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann In 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played the last live music heard on Polish radio before the Nazi

Further Cultural Dissent

'We will not be silent'

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