By Lara Pullin
The left-wing FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) won a resounding victory in March 12 legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador. The win is the FMLN's most significant political gain since the signing of the
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Sex, drugs and our right to decide
Marina Carman
The $5 million National Alcohol Campaign has hit our TV screens. In the two advertisements, teenagers drinking alcohol end up either having unsafe sex or beating someone up. The campaign includes
Hindu fundamentalists knocked back
By Eva Cheng
The February attempt by India's main Hindu fundamentalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to seize power through the back door in India's second largest state, Bihar, has failed miserably.
East Timorese under attack
By Jon Land
The recent spate of pro-integration militia incursions along the western border of East Timor highlights the failure and unwillingness of the Indonesian government to disarm its militia gangs in West Timor.
Indonesia plans to deport labour consultant
By Pip Hinman
Roger Smith, an Australian who works for the American Centre for International Labor Solidarity, which is funded by the US government and the AFL-CIO, has been threatened with deportation
Protest against mandatory sentencing!
MELBOURNE: "Oppose mandatory sentencing". Resistance forum. Guest speaker from Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. Thursday, March 23, 1pm. Union Laws, Melbourne University.
SYDNEY: Protest against the visit
New party is 'a half-way house'
Patrick Bond spoke with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Johannesburg. Question: How can the MDC's industrial worker and urban community activists persuade the rural folk to abandon Mugabe's "nationalism".
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Exhibition extended in western Sydney
The Living without Violence 2000 exhibition reviewed in the previous issue of Green Left Weekly has been extended due to popular demand. The exhibition, which provides art spaces and audiences for women artists
By Bronwyn Powell
Three hundred students rallied at the Southern Cross University in Lismore on March 15 to protest against a $50 late enrolment fee which was levied on 1000 students. The university failed to give adequate notification that the due
Girt by sea
By Allen Myers
A few weeks ago, I was reading some of Frederick Engels' correspondence and came across an interesting letter. Someone was compiling a book of labour movement songs and wrote to Engels asking his advice on songs to
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