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Messages to congratulate Green Left's 1000th issue

Green Left Weekly will be publishing its 1000th issue on March 12. To commemorate this, GLW is calling for messages of solidarity and for pledges to its 2014 Fund Appeal that will keep it fighting for system change.

Welfare

‘Cuts hitting hard’: single mums speak out

Louise Williams is one of eight administrators of the the Facebook group “Parenting Payments for Parents — not Newstart”, an online community of close to 7000 people — mainly single mothers — fighting for the reinstatement of Parenting Payments Single for sole parents with children over eight-years-old.

Economy

Save jobs by renationalising Qantas

Qantas is just the latest big company to announce it is about to destroy thousands of jobs. CEO Alan Joyce says jobs have to go to save the company’s profit line.

Venezuela

A year after Chavez, revolution pushes on

Almost a year has passed since the death of Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2013. Many people, on the left and the right, expressed doubt that there could be Chavismo without Chávez.

This week's Socialist Alliance 'Our Common Cause' column

Stop the scapegoating of refugees

“You don't want a wimp running border protection,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on February 21. “You want someone who is strong, who is decent, and Scott Morrison is both strong and decent.”

THIS WEEK'S COLUMN BY RESISTANCE!, SOCIALIST YOUTH ORGANISATION

Socialist youth conference big success

The socialist youth organisation Resistance has merged into the Socialist Alliance of which it was previously an affiliate. Members of the Socialist Alliance aged 26 and under are now part of a new youth wing called “Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance”.

Australian News

Vic gov’t on ‘naptime’ as mine fire poisons Morwell

Victorian Premier Denis Napthine is living up to his new nickname, “Naptime”, as the Hazelwood coalmine fire continues its terrible impact on the town of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley.

Calls for police to be charged over Qld taser attack

Police have not responded to a petition Taser victim Sheila Oakley handed to them a week ago. In response, a community assembly was held outside Logan police station on February 22.

Further Australian News

International News

Ukraine: Regime fall followed by fresh chaos

After failing to violently crush mass protests in Kiev’s Independence Square, which have been raging since November 21, the regime of Viktor Yanukovich collapsed on February 22.

Sri Lanka's human rights abuses to face UN probe

Throughout March, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will be reviewing the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, among other countries, at it meeting in Geneva.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

How Green Left backs women’s rights

As approaches its 1000th issue, more than 20 years after it first hit the streets, we will be looking back at some of the campaigns it has covered and its role as an alternative source of news. This week we look at women's liberation.

Carlo’s Corner: Won't someone think of the borders?

Well the fun just never stops, does it, when it comes to the Abbott government’s asylum seeker policies, or as they call it, “border protection”. Because when it comes to needing protection, fleeing war, torture and genocide is one thing, but won’t someone think of all the poor, downtrodden borders?

Further Comment and Analysis

Cultural Dissent

Rebel Diaz rap about activists' 'radical dilemma'

Rebel Diaz's much-anticipated debut album tackles a quandary faced by many activists - the "radical dilemma" of trying to change the system while being trapped in it.

George Pell's sordid legacy

The police had, writes David Marr in his September 2013 Quarterly Essay on paedophile priests in the Catholic Church in Australia, “vigorously, for a very long time, protected the church”. This, says Marr, left the clergy’s sex crimes to be looked after in-house.

Further Cultural Dissent

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

What's new at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal?

Party of the European Left: building unity to build hope When the 200-plus delegates finally voted on the two main documents presented to the fourth congress of the Party of the European Left (EL), held on December 13-15 in Madrid, there was a faint murmur of surprise at the degree of support received, writes Dick Nichols in an eyewitness account of fourth congress of the group that unites left parties across the continent. Noam Chomsky's weak spot on political power

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