GLW issue 601, published 2004-10-06.

Animal farm: Some brute facts

Animal Farm: A Fairy StoryBy George OrwellNew Edition, Penguin Books, 2003120 pages, $17.95 REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER George Orwell's Animal Farm is published here in a new edition that contains a preface written by Orwell for the first edition

High school students launch activist alliance

In April 2004, students at Glenunga International High School in Adelaide set up the Student Activist Alliance. The SAA has since grown to include members from other high schools in Adelaide. Green Left Weekly's Melanie Coutman recently spoke to SAA

Release Craig Johnston petition

The following petition, with tens of thousands of signatures, will be presented to the Bracks government at a mass rally in early November. To: The Hon. Rob Hulls MLA, Attorney General of Victoria; The Hon. Steve Bracks MLA, Premier of Victoria.

Why the bosses wanted to get rid of Craig Johnston

Steve Dargavel It's important for us to understand the lead-up to the court case against [former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Victorian branch secretary] Craig Johnston. The election of the Kennett state government in 1992 and the Howard

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Australian News

Put yourself in their shoes

On September 24, refugee supporters placed 80 pairs of children's shoes outside the office of the Liberal member for Dobell, Ken Ticehurst, out of respect for the 80 children still held in detention by the Coalition government. The protest was a

Rodents lay trap for Downer

MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance laid a trap for foreign minister Alexander Downer as he was to address a conference on human rights in Iraq on October 1. With a rodent trap baited with cheese made of lies, Socialist Alliance activists dressed

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International News

EAST TIMOR: For a fair maritime boundary!

The following statement was issued on September 29 by the HAK Association, Haburas Foundation, Oxfam Australia, Alola Foundation, La'o Hamutuk (East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis), East Timor Community Radio Association

VENEZUELA: 'Time to deepen the revolution'

Roberto Jorquera On the day after his decisive victory in the August 15 presidential recall referendum, leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a victory celebration by tens of thousands of his supporters: "The recall referendum was not just

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Cultural Dissent

Living in a new shadowland of uncertainty

REVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH ShadowlandAt the Footscray Community Arts Centre,45 Moreland Street,FootscrayUntil October 10. A close collaboration between Melbourne photographer Viv Mehes and a group of refugees living on temporary protection

Corporate censorship

A colleague of lawyer Julian Burnside decided to spend his own money printing and distributing 35,000 posters with the below design during the federal election campaign. A week after the posters (and payment) was accepted by Red Cap Distributors,

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