Palestinian hunger striker protests detention
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — Palestinian prisoner, Itaf Alayan, has entered the third week of a hunger strike in the Israeli prison, Neve Tirza. Her hunger strike entered a critical stage last
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Comment by Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — On October 20, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology decided to proceed with the implementation of up-front fees. The decision ignores the recent referendum in which 10,431 students and staff, 80% of
JANET MAYBIN, a British correspondent of Green Left Weekly columnist Brandon Astor Jones, attended his resentencing trial in Cobb County, Georgia, September 8-23. Printed here is her account of the trial. Each day we sat through the court proceedings
Mum
Did I tell you about me mum?
She's a widow woman, isn't she?
That's the one. Me dear old mum's 84 come next month.
That's a fine age.
Sure is, but age hasn't slowed her down any.
Still gets about does she?
By James Vassilopoulos
Twelve-hour shifts are increasingly being put into new enterprise agreements. Also increasingly common are cuts to penalty rates and the averaging of working hours over a month instead of a week. The five-day, 40-hour
WA Greens: 'Constitutional change is needed'
WA Greens Senator DEE MARGETTS has been embarrassing the Coalition with the findings of parliamentary committees revealing the Native Title Amendment Bill to be unconstitutional and racially
Sri Lankan government sterilises Tamils
A program to systematically and radically reduce the Tamil population in Sri Lanka's plantation sector is secretly but effectively being carried out with state assistance and misdirected foreign aid. The
Women for Wik: 'The ground swell will build'
Green Left Weekly's CARLA GORTON spoke to WIN CHILDS, national co-convener of Women for Wik about the growing community opposition to Howard's Wik bill. Question: How did Women for Wik form?
Dili massacre commemorated around Australia
The sixth anniversary of the Indonesian military's massacre of mourners at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery on November 12, 1991, was commemorated in many parts of the country. From Brisbane, report Roberto
By Marina Carman
Recognising the unpopularity of further moves towards "user pays", the government has ruled out two major proposals contained in the discussion paper of the review of higher education being conducted by Roderick West. The paper
Ken Saro-Wiwa remembered
By Dr Willie Nwido
Two years ago, on November 10, we were treated to the terrifying shock of the judicial murder of our beloved leader and compatriot Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others. This murder prompted widespread
Action updates
Hunter Valley miners
SYDNEY — About 150 supporters attended a benefit for the Hunter Valley No 1 miners at the Gaelic Club here on November 14. Peter Hicks, Denis Kevans, John Dengate and the Travelling Agitators all
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