By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — Miguel, a 50-year-old unemployed father of five, is a Mexico City street vendor. He sells corn-on-the-cob from a card table. Miguel works 70 hours a week, and on a normal day brings home $15, only half of which
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By Brian Costner A leak of radioactive water from an aged nuclear weapons plant has delayed the reactor's restart and piqued local concerns about the plant's safety. The leak was discovered on December 24, 11 days after the Department of
By Doug Lorimer In his article on nuclear fusion (GLW, No 41), Phil Shannon criticises the Democratic Socialist Party's Socialism and Human Survival document for its "breathless account of how nuclear fusion could be a 'long term solution to
Aristocrats' ball inspires protests By Peter Annear PRAGUE — "It was open season on bow ties, fur collars and diamonds at the Opera Ball on Saturday night as a vocal, orange-pitching crowd of demonstrators showed Ivana Trump and her
Toward a green economy? Concern for the environment, we are being told, is a luxury to be had only in good times. During recessions, hard decisions have to be made: jobs or trees? paying off the mortgage or defending the habitat of the
See Abdul Tee-Jay free Green Left Weekly has 10 double passes to Abdul Tee-Jay's Thursday, February 20, concert at the Paddington RSL to give away. The first 10 people to call between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19, who can tell us
By Kevin Healy In the Great Campaign for Wage Justice This Year, the ACTU came up with a magnificent new strategy this week. The new fighting-our-guts-out-for-those-who-pay-our-little-salary-packages tactic is — extraordinarily Machiavellian
By Tracy Sorensen The campaign to turn back political gains made by the green movement in recent years — symbolised by important victories like the banning of mining at Coronation Hill and the shelving of the Wesley Vale pulp mill — is
By José A. de la Osa In 1991, Cuba achieved an infant mortality rate of 10.7 per 1000 live births. This rate, which has been achieved for two consecutive years, is the lowest in the country's entire history. Infant mortality is an
By Phil Shannon The world's richest woman is about to disgrace our shores again. Royalty worshippers are ecstatic. Australian republicans and socialists, on the other hand, hold no brief for these "people of the past" (as Trotsky called them).
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — If the buying power of wages in Australia had fallen by 80% in a year, how large would the demonstrations be in Bourke Street or the Sydney Domain? It would have to be more than the 15,000 or so people who marched
Tu-be or not tu-be By Dave Riley It's official: you can now turn your television set back on. The squalid drought is over and a succession of ratings periods await your delight. This is the year of the news — the new news — format and
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