Ready to go "Does our economic stability require that some ... of the population be kept in poverty?" — Max Frankel in the New York Times I saw a very poignant cartoon recently. It was a nine-frame panel by Matt Groening. He uses the same two
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By Bill Mason BRISBANE It only took a week for the revelation that Queensland is returning to the bad old days of Bjelke-Petersen, former Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane Zanny Begg told Green Left Weekly. The secret
By Susan Price MELBOURNE — Hoping to capitalise on the Howard Liberal/National Coalition victory and the spin-off from the Grand Prix, Premier Jeff Kennett has called a snap state poll for March 30. The Democratic Socialists are all geared up with
Choices: Soul Mothers — Women facing parenthood alone talk about support networks, custodial issues and money. Sole mothers are often disadvantaged, whether working or on the pension. Choices will be relayed to 28 community radio stations around
AIDS: Is the Cuban strategy working? By Karen Wald [This article is a response to a letter in GLW #215 from Ken Davis, criticising an article by Karen Wald in issue 214.] I wish I had time to answer individually and promptly all the people, like Ken
Not the church, not the state In Latin America, debate is raging over reproductive rights. According to an article titled "The Gender Wars" in the January-February issue of NACLA: Report on the Americas, the debate has participants from widely
By Jennifer Thompson The immediate costs of the four suicide bombings carried out in the last fortnight by groups in the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are plain to see. While the Israeli political establishment has
By Phil Hearse LONDON — The February 15 publication of the report into the "arms for Iraq" scandal revealed what everyone already knew. In defiance of UN guidelines, Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s, and then John Major's in the 1990s,
By Anthony Benbow and Justin Randell PERTH — A mass meeting of bus drivers on March 7 demanded the state Liberal government suspend its "competitive tendering" process or face further industrial action. The drivers, members of the Public Transport
By Lisa Macdonald The right-wing National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is sponsoring an end of the month visit to Australia by former Greenpeace campaigner Patrick Moore. Since 1991, Moore has been working for the British Columbia Forests
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