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ISRAEL: Why Barak lost

BY RAMI HADAD Contrary to the impression created by the international news media, Ariel Sharon did not win the February 6 Israeli prime ministerial election by a landslide. In fact, he won just 37% of the eligible vote — the lowest of any of his

Hanson's "anti-globalism" and ours

It was entirely predictable that Pauline Hanson's One Nation would try to jump on the "anti-globalisation" bandwagon. After all, that's what right-wing populists do — jump on bandwagons — and there's no issue more popular at present than hatred

Write on: letters to the editor

Charlie's Angels Jo Ellis' indignation at Alison Dellit's review of Charlie's Angels (GLW #437) seemed to be more directed at the notion that anyone could dare criticise the ideological content of "popular culture" be it a film, book, CD, or TV

Why the corporate media promote Hanson

BY ALISON DELLIT Avoiding Pauline Hanson these days is an impossible task. Her face looms from the mainstream papers every day and then pops up again on the TV news at night. Her image is more prevelant than any other politician in the corporate

Labor's 'promises'

Labor's 'promises' are rather slippery, to say the least — pinning down exactly what it will do is a bit like trying to nail jelly to a wall. Dairy deregulation: Labor will not re-regulate the industry. A Beazley government would review the Dairy

Che's relevance for today's radicals

BY DANNY FAIRFAX Che Guevara? He's that pop star, isn't he? All right, so not many people would really confuse Ernesto "Che" Guevara for a pop star, but there are lots of people who don't know more about him than his iconic image, which nowadays

Crisis for Coalition as ALP sweeps Qld election

BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — Panic is sweeping the Liberal-National Coalition around the country after the crushing ALP victory in the February 17 Queensland state elections. As Green Left Weekly goes to print, the Labor Party has won 66 out of a

MEXICO: Zapatistas march for indigenous justice

BY DICK NICHOLS MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's

Union support for M1 grows

BY SEAN HEALY Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions. Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on

IRAQ: US escalates 'hidden' war

BY NORM DIXON The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US

Western Sydney IWD fighting for global justice

BY GAIL LORD PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women

Review: The Full Montezuma

The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000 Reviewed by Jackie Coleman Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip