GLW's coverage of South Africa
Mazibuko Jara, the South African Communist Party's media spokesperson, states (Write On #504) that he is "rather surprised that Green Left Weekly seems to have taken a stance not to engage the SACP in a comradely and
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BY FAROOQ TARIQ &
RAJA MEHBOOB HUSSAIN
LAHORE On August 8, the military government of President Pervez
Musharraf declared that its previously announced plan to privatise Pakistan's
educational institutions would not take place.
BY IAN BOLAS
In the present period we have Labor governments in all states and yet nothing much seems to be different.
The NSW government sends mounted police against pickets, the Victorian government collaborates in victimising the "Skilled Six"
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY On August 15, 80 people attended an information night at
the Tom Mann Theatre to learn more about the upcoming Sydney Social Forum,
which will be held on September 21-22 at the University of Technology,
Sydney. Two
BY ALISON DELLIT
The ALP's current navel-gaze reminds me somewhat of the Time Warp. Not John Howard's back-to-the-1950s time warp, but the Rocky Horror dance: a jump to the "left", a step to the "right", a bit of pelvic thrusting and you end up
REVIEW BY SHANE HOPKINSON
The Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia
By Mary Crock and Ben SaulFederation Press 2002152 pages, $24.95Order at <http://www.fedpress.aust.com/Books/CrockFutSeek.html>
The Future Seekers is a
BY SUE BOLTON
At 2.30pm on
August 7, Green Left Weekly received an email from Taylor &
Scott, lawyers acting on behalf of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
national secretary Doug Cameron, in which they demanded that an article
The days are getting colderThey stretch before me all in a lineEach night gets a little bit longerAnd these stars that once were strange now I call mineOh, it's been so long since I saw her faceAnd I just can't find my way out of this placeI took the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
It is clear to many people, just from day-to-day experience, that public opinion has become enormously polarised on the issue of asylum seekers.
This polarisation reflects a positive trend that while support for the
LISMORE Twenty
people attended the launch of a hunger strike and outdoor refugee embassy
on August 16, organised by the Refugee Action Collective. The hunger strike
will culminate in a public meeting with Howard Glen of Australians for
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