Behind India's food crisis
By Peter Snowdon
NEW DELHI — India stands on the brink of a food crisis to rival the darkest periods of its modern history. "In five years' time, this issue will be settled in the streets with riots, massacres,
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NTEU national council sets strategy
By Jeremy Smith
The National Tertiary Education Industry Union held its national council meeting three days before the October 3 federal election. Under the slogan "NTEU: Leading the Industry", more than 200
Green Left is taking a break
Green Left Weekly is taking a break from production next week. The next issue will be dated October 28.
No less than 599 million
By Brandon Astor Jones
Like silent precious gems harnessed tightly to a speeding stallionEach second's passage is shouldered as a yoke of eternal weightStrapping down the wretched's limbs, condemned before hell's
20th anniversary of Reclaim the Night
By Michele Wickham
SYDNEY — The Reclaim the Night organising collective here will mark its 20th anniversary on October 30 with a march and rally on the theme "Hands off — our bodies are ours". With these
BRISBANE — Believe it or not, there is a group of people Australia who are forbidden to earn a living. Because they cannot work, they cannot get Medicare. They also cannot receive social security benefits. They are not even allowed to do voluntary
By Allen Myers
Despite the Coalition having received only a minority of votes in the federal election, John Howard is claiming that winning a majority of seats in the House of Representatives gives him a "mandate" to introduce a GST. Howard's claim
By Peter Gellert
MEXICO CITY — October 2 was the 30th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Mexican student movement, when the army opened fire on a demonstration in the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco housing complex. For
Write on: Letters to the editor
Head On
I refer to the review of the film Head On ("Ethnicity, class and sexuality collide head on", GLW September 30) by Conrad Barnett and Natalie Wood: "Ari (Alex Dimitriades) takes us on a 24-hour bender and
Carr's public transport hypocrisy
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — A last-minute deal saved the face of the state Labor government during NSW's inaugural Public Transport Week, October 5-11, when the railways unions called off a planned 24-hour strike.
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