GLW issue 597, published 2004-09-08.

Help free Craig Johnston!

We need your help to: distribute information speak at workplaces move motions in your union raise money for the campaign. To help out, phone Sue Bolton on 0413-377-978 or email sueb@dsp.org.au From Green Left Weekly, September 8, 2004.

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LondonTheir message:Two hundred thousand miscellaneous persons, surging streets.It was the arthritic knees ignored(Grandmother Edith's first march);It was the lunch missed,the school test - zero scorethe prioritisation of expressed disgust(red

Write on: Letters to the editor

US Greens In response to Tennessee reader Howard Switzer's complaints (Write On, GLW #596) about my comments on the US Greens in my article in "Democrats sabotage Nader-Camejo campaign" (GLW #595), the main point of my article was the fact that the

Socialist Alliance challenges Nationals to debate

Bill Mason, Brisbane The Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, Coral Wynter, has issued a challenge to National Party candidate Major Nick Withycombe to debate the Iraq war and truth in politics. The challenge follows

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Australian News

Bosses found guilty over coal mine deaths

Simon Butler, Newcastle The mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has welcomed the August 9 conviction of the companies and individuals responsible for events that led to the tragic deaths of four coal

Most Iraqis support resistance says aid worker

Chris Slee, Melbourne Donna Mulhearn, an Australian volunteer aid worker who has lived and worked in Baghdad for six months, and who visited Fallujah while the city was under attack by US forces, spoke to 50 people at a public meeting organised by

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International News

PALESTINE: Death of the roadmap?

Michael Shaik Deepening the rift between the United States and Europe, the US government led by President George Bush is supporting Israel's plans to build a further 533 settlement homes in THE West Bank on top of the 1000 construction tenders

WORLD SPORT: Staring down the Olympic monster

David Zirin The modern Olympic games began in 1898 as a place for imperial rivals, in the process of carving up the world from Cuba to the Congo to the Philippines, to wave flags and use sports to whip up a nationalist frenzy. Since those times,

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Editorial

Johnston: locked up for defending his class

The August 27 Court of Appeal decision to jail militant unionist Craig Johnston is a sharp illustration of the class prejudices of Australia's legal system. While Johnston is locked up because of property damage sustained during an industrial

Cultural Dissent

A people unbowed

Travels in American IraqBy John Martinkus Black Inc books, 2004224 pages, $24.95 pb REVIEW BY ANNA SAMSON Smart bombs. Guided missiles. Minimal collateral damage. Attacks on high-value targets. All phrases designed to give the impression that

Hedley Marston and the atomic tests in Australia

Silent StormSBSSeptember 9, 8.30pm REVIEW BY JIM GREEN Silent Storm tells the fascinating story of CSIRO scientist Hedley Marston and his battle to alert the Australian public about radioactive contamination from the British atomic tests carried

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