The movement against corporate globalisation is anything but dead:
December 13-14, Brussels, Belgium: European Trade Union Confederation mobilises 100,000 trade unionists; global justice demonstration of 25,000;
December 19, Argentina: Mass
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GLW sets fundraising target
BY JON LAND
2002 will mark an important milestone for the Green Left Weekly — the 500th issue comes off the presses mid-year. With the contraction of media ownership in Australia during that decade, GLW is an
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has finally unveiled its draft industrial relations legislation — and what a reaction. The bosses are screaming, the Liberal/National Coalition opposition is foaming at the mouth
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Woomera detention centre is hell on Earth. Located in the middle of the South Australian desert, it can reach 40 degrees in summer and is freezing cold in winter. There are no trees or shade, nothing but the scorching sun. Opened
BY MAX LANE
The Australia Indonesia Institute (AII) is advertised as a body promoting people-to-people relations between Australia and Indonesia. Its real role in defending the political status quo in Indonesia and Australia has been revealed by a
BY LISA MacDONALD
SYDNEY — NSW Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon called on January 22 for the state electoral commissioner to "clean out any potential spoiler parties" that aim to contest the next election.
There is little doubt that there are bogus
BY LISA LINES
ADELAIDE — Abbas is one of the many hundreds of refugees who fled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and made their way to Australia. He is one of the few lucky enough to have had his application for a temporary protection visa
The Coalition government is facing a serious political crisis. The desperate and heroic actions of more than 300 hunger strikers at Woomera and Maribyrnong detention centres have again focused the spotlight on the inhumanity and illegality of the
SYDNEY — Gaywaves, the gay and lesbian radio program broadcast on Radio 2SER FM, is looking for people interested in helping to produce the show.
Gaywaves is run by a small collective. Its aims include affirming gay and lesbian identity and
Below are excerpts from a leaflet distributed in January at New York screenings of Black Hawk Down by the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) anti-war coalition.
In his review of Black Hawk Down, New York Times movie reviewer Elvis Mitchell
BY SUE BOLTON
A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise.
After a vigorous
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