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Jim Anderton I would like to add my congratulations and best wishes for your new publishing venture. In providing a new progressive weekly newspaper to counter the clearly biased way in which important social and economic and political news is
By Peter Boyle Environmentalists have cautiously welcomed the draft report of the Resource Assessment Commission into the effects of the proposed gold-platinum-palladium mine at Coronation Hill in Kakadu national park. While the report, released
Young green campers plot to save planet By Patricia Corcoran SYDNEY — While military recruiting centres report an increase in unemployed young people seeking a career in the services and Dick Smith and Tandy are trying to interest young people
Bob Hawke, watching cricket in Perth on February 2, decided to perform a major foreign policy somersault and campaign to have international sanctions against the South Africa's white-minority regime phased out. Labor has now openly joined forces with

ALEXANDER BUZGALIN is a lecturer in economics at Moscow State University and a central figure in the Marxist Platform tendency of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

By Sid Walker There's a lot we know about Australia's forests — and a staggering amount we don't know. We know they extend over some 5% of the continent and that our woodlands, with a lighter tree-cover, are rather more extensive. As well
By Craig Cormick The capabilities of the Allied forces in the Gulf to cope with casualties from a protracted Gulf war have been brought into question by an international group of physicians. The International Physicians for the Prevention of
This is the first issue of Green Left. Many individuals made this issue possible by writing articles, letters, poems, drawing cartoons, taking photographs, designing graphics and layout. But there is room for many more people to become part of the GL

Sally Low reviews Boris Kagarlitsky's book, Farewell Perestroika: A Soviet Chronicle.

East German students on the march By Kath Gelber BERLIN — "Westies and Easties interpret the Federal Republic of Germany in different ways; the point however is to change it." This banner paraphrasing Marx decorated the foyer of the Humboldt
By Sally Low Three out of four Lithuanian voters on February 9-10 answered "Yes" to a referendum asking "Do you support the idea that Lithuania is an independent, democratic republic?" The vote for independence can only have been increased by the
By Kevin Healy This week we're privileged to have access to the news reports of those great allies and buddies, the CIA and ASIO ... "Good morning. This is the CIA-ASIO exclusive news service, and leading the news this morning, mopping-up