Washington's hidden war on Iraq
Imagine the United States is involved in its most intense air war since
the 1991 Gulf War, and its most protracted since the Vietnam War. As it
bombs its enemy many times every day, it kills several dozen
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Incommunicado
By Brandon Astor Jones
"We do not have the personnel to provide checks for amounts which should be covered within the inmate's 20 stamp/week purchase authorization." — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment D. Glenn Suggs On
Fight over water privatisation in South Africa
By Anna Weekes
JOHANNESBURG — Attempts by the African National Congress government to privatise the water of Dolphin Coast municipality in kwaZulu-Natal province, in breach of a national agreement,
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Victorian Australian Education Union members are very angry at the unprecedented votes in February by the union's council to impose a $100 compulsory levy on all members but to take no industrial action for the next
On April 10, Green Left Weekly's MAX LANE spoke by telephone to East Timor resistance leader XANANA GUSMAO, who is still under house arrest in Jakarta. The telephone answered "Cipinang Prison" when I rang Xanana's house. Xanana had been imprisoned
Council kicks out Boral
By Alison Dellit and Hugh McCallum
NEWCASTLE — On February 9, Newcastle City Council voted nine to two to make environmental performance part of the criteria for deciding which companies it will have commercial dealings
Victory for Scottish socialists
GLASGOW — The registrar of political parties has been forced into a humiliating climb-down by the Scottish Socialist Party. The registrar's decision to bar the SSP from the ballot for the May 6 Scottish Assembly
Left parties stand in NSW election
By Sam Wainwright
SYDNEY — As Labor and the Coalition engage in a cynical law-and-order auction for the March 27 NSW poll, the biggest talking point has been the record 80 parties (264 candidates) contesting
Overproduction
Allen Myers' (rather esoteric) essay "Reinventing the Labor Party" (GLW #350) raised interesting points most of which I agreed with.
He could have developed further the aspect of making "Australia" more competitive. With
Speak-out against anti-abortionists
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — Around 30 activists attended a March 13 speak-out against anti-abortionists' harassment of patients at an abortion clinic in Sydney's inner west. As pro-choice activists described the
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