GLW issue 587, published 2004-06-30.

Gold mine threatens sacred Lake Cowal

Sam Pillay A multi-million dollar gold mine at Lake Cowal with an estimated yield of $1.2 billion threatens to desecrate a sacred site of the Wiradjuri people of West Wyalong-Parkes. Lake Cowal is the largest inland lake in NSW and the Wiradjuri

GERMANY: Left regroups to form electoral challenge

Norman Brewer A poll conducted last week by left-leaning German TV magazine Panorama revealed that more than a third of Germans would consider voting for a new left party, made up of expelled and resigned Social-Democrats (SPD) and disappointed

Your local Socialist Alliance candidate

The Socialist Alliance is running in every state and territory in the upcoming federal election. So if you want to vote for a people's representative, who will put working people and the environment before profit, check out who is standing in your

Tim Gooden: Socialist Alliance candidate for Corio

A carpenter by trade, Tim is a shop steward for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and also the assistant secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council. Tim has a long experience of union struggle. He worked in the public service

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Guantanamo Bay lawyer praises Green Left Weekly SYDNEY — At the first event of its kind in the Bankstown area, 150 people packed out the Bankstown Senior Citizens Centre on June 19 for a Socialist Alliance and Green Left Weekly fundraising

Fighting for a more democratic CPSU

Simon Butler, Newcastle After weeks of campaigning to prevent their national officials from abruptly closing the Newcastle office of the Community and Public Sector Union, rank-and-file members of the CPSU in the Hunter have succeeded in forcing a

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Nader/Camejo ticket challenges Republocrats

Barry Sheppard, San Francisco Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader named long-time activist Peter Miguel Camejo as his vice-presidential running mate at a press conference in Washington, DC on June 21. The announcement was covered by

SUDAN: Africa's hidden war

Esther Anderson "The scale of the tragedy in Darfur would be difficult to believe if it were not for the terrible fact that it is a reality. More than 1 million Sudanese from Darfur are existing — barely — in desperate circumstances ... This

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Cultural Dissent

An affirmation of resistance movements

REVIEW BY RUTH RATCLIFFE Love and Rage Vol II: WarnographyVarious ArtistsLove and Rage Records$12.50, order by sending a cheque/postal order to J Hutchings, Love & Rage Records, PO Box 1191, Richmond North, Vic 3121 I wrote this right here for

A guided tour of Baxter

You can keep your camera's lens cap on but turn your tape recorder off.We'll tell you when you've heard enough. Inmates expect to be treated rough,shade your eyes, don't try to bluff. We'll tell you when you've seen enough.Don't talk to them they'll

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