By Adam Hanieh
The official ideology of Israel, Zionism, has always portrayed itself as a liberation movement for all Jews. But although Zionism claims to offer a home for all Jews, that home has never been offered equally. The question of Arab
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Comment by Sean Healy
During the next two months, elections to many university student unions will be held around the country, elections that the activist student left will be heavily involved in. There has been little discussion about what the
Push for Tasmanian Hydro sale
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Trust Bank of Tasmania have released a report supporting plans by the state government to privatise all or part of the Hydro
Last week was momentous for Green Left Weekly.
For the next six weeks, passers-by and visitors to the Green Left production centre in Abercrombie Street in Sydney will encounter scaffolding, building supplies, paint tins and general hubbub as
NTU students fight cuts
DARWIN — Around 70 students attended an urgent lunchtime meeting at the Northern Territory University on July 24 in response to cuts to the ceramics, sculpture and English departments. The meeting was attended
Call for left unity at UQ
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — Resistance activists are calling for a broad left activist ticket in University of Queensland student union elections. Activists in the education anti-racism, feminist and
Green Left Weekly's KAMALA EMANUEL visited the miners' picket line at the Hunter Valley No. 1 colliery on the July 22, the day of the mass meeting at which the miners voted to return to work. She reports here on some of her discussions with the
Work injuries increase
By James Vassilopoulos
Work injury rates are beginning to rise, according to a recently released publication by the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission. The federal government last year cut the budget
PC or no PC, that is the questionPC or no PC, that is the question
It may be thought, and often said, that your run-of-the-mill leftie is very hard to amuse. They look for overtones, undertones, sub-tones, grunts and "philosophy"; they
Hanson: neo-Nazis' 'Joan of Arc'
By Norm Dixon
"If I said, 'Joan of Arc', you'd think immediately of an inspired, young patriotic girl, rising from peasantry, leading her people gloriously into battle. If I said, 'Pauline Hanson',
By Helen Cunningham and Marina Cameron
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock cancelled the visa of US Black Panther activist Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin on July 25. Ervin was arrested in Brisbane and held in solitary confinement earlier this month after
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The signing of the Tasmanian regional forest agreement (RFA) has been postponed for a second time. Originally scheduled for June 30, then postponed until July 18, it is now due to be signed in early to mid-August.
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