GLW issue 644, published 2005-09-28.

Palestine solidarity groups hold national meeting

MELBOURNE — On September 17, the National Coalition of Palestine Solidarity Groups met in Melbourne to discuss joint campaigns for the upcoming year. The coalition agreed to support the campaign to boycott Israeli products and the "Disinvest from

Councils under pressure not to offer AWAs

Kim Bullimore and Ben Courtice, Melbourne A motion by councillor Stephen Jolly for all City of Yarra council contract workers to have enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) rather than individual contracts (AWAs) failed to get up at the council's

Write on: Letters to the editor

Combatting depression Iggy Kim (Write On, GLW #641) offers up Cuba's continued use of anti-depressants and electro-shock therapy (ECT) to bolster his argument that drugs, used in combination with community-based psychiatric methods, are the best

Join Resistance!

On October 2-3, the socialist youth organisation Resistance is holding its 34th national conference in Melbourne. Green Left Weekly spoke to three Resistance activists about some of the campaigns they are currently involved in. Solidarity with

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Australian News

Iraqi unionist tours Australia

Viv Miley, Sydney Farouk Ismaal, international relations officer for Iraq's General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE), has begun a speaking tour of Australia, sponsored by a broad range of trade unions and anti-war and social justice organisations.

Students face increased police surveillance

Dale Mills After US peace activist Scott Parkin was deported from Australia on September 15 for being a "threat to national security" many students he worked with at Sydney University are being put under surveillance. On September 15, Sydney

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International News

IRAQ: British troops assault Basra's central police station

Louay Alzaher& Doug Lorimer Tension ran high in southern Iraq on September 20 after British troops attacked the central police station in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, the previous day. The incident was sparked when British soldiers used

UNITED STATES: The Iraq syndrome

Rohan Pearce On March 1, 1991, after the defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War, US President George Bush senior told the American Legislative Exchange Council: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!" Since George Bush junior

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Cultural Dissent

Too painful to hug

The Body SnatchersBy Cyndi TebbelFinch Publishing, Sydney$25 REVIEW BY TAMARA PEARSON Don't you think the concept of "diet" Coke is really bizarre? This is the rationale of a junk-dominated food industry trying to profit at the same time as a

World sends us barking mad

Barking MadWritten and produced by Maree RobertsonMelbourne, October 11-13; Castlemaine, October 13; Hamilton, October 14; Camperdown, October 15Email <barkingmadproject@yahoo.com.au> or phone 0427 122 608 for more information. REVIEW BY

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