GLW issue 645, published 2005-10-12.

MALAYSIA: Audacious socialists fly the red flag high

Eva Cheng For the last few decades, Malaysia's capitalist rulers have governed with an iron fist, using the notorious Internal Security Act (ISA) inherited from British colonial rule to jail dissidents without trial and for an indefinite period.

Correction

In the article titled "New ACT peace coalition" in Green Left Weekly #643, Mohammed Berjaoui was mistakenly said to represent the Canberra Islamic Centre. He is in fact a representative of the ACT Islamic Society.From Green Left Weekly, October 12,

Fisk: 'War a failure of human spirit'

Graham Matthews, Sydney "War represents a total failure of the human spirit", declared renowned journalist Robert Fisk at his packed-out Sydney university lecture on October 5. "If you could see what I've seen, you would never support a war."

Laws for insecurity

Dale Mills "These proposals will curtail our civil liberties dramatically, but the government has not put forward any evidence that these laws will help combat terrorism", according to Agnes Chong, who contributed to a detailed report challenging

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Australian News

Privatisation caused Tasmania's 'rail crisis'

Alex Bainbridge, Hobart Commercial media, politicians and business commentators are describing as a "rail crisis" the September 27 announcement by Pacific National Tasmania that it will cease freight rail services between Hobart and Burnie unless

Nuclear power PR campaign debunked

Takver, Melbourne Anti-nuclear activists have replied to advocates of nuclear power with a comprehensively damning report, "Nuclear power - no solution to climate change". Fifty people attended the launch of the report at Northcote Town Hall on

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International News

VENEZUELA: Government moves to increase economic control

Stuart Munckton While the land reform process and expropriation of idle factories led by the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez has captured the most media attention, a series of other measures are being put in place that give the

UNITED STATES: Bill to discriminate against gay, single parents

An interim legislative committee in Indiana is considering a bill to prohibit gay men, lesbians and single people from using medical science to help them have a child. Assisted reproduction is defined in the bill as causing pregnancy through means

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Cultural Dissent

A glimpse behind the "war on terror"

REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE Justice For Jack: the real story behind the 'Jihad Jack' caseBy Stefan MarkworthAvailable from <http://www.justice4jack.com> While many are familiar with the case of David Hicks, currently held by the US at the

Enron: Asking how, not necessarily why

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomWritten and directed by Alex GibneyDendy Cinemas from October 13 REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH "Burn baby, burn!" These malicious, greedy words of an Enron trader, referring to a bushfire threatening power lines

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