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Palestine solidarity groups hold national meeting

MELBOURNE — On September 17, the National Coalition of Palestine Solidarity Groups met in Melbourne to discuss joint campaigns for the upcoming year. The coalition agreed to support the campaign to boycott Israeli products and the "Disinvest from

Apprentice left with life-threatening injuries

Pip Hinman Cameron Ayliffe, a third-year apprentice from North Lambton in Newcastle, was crushed by a scissor-lift on September 20. Rather than take him to the nearby John Hunter Hospital, he was told by John Holland management to rest in a site

UNITED STATES: The Iraq syndrome

Rohan Pearce On March 1, 1991, after the defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War, US President George Bush senior told the American Legislative Exchange Council: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!" Since George Bush junior

John Pilger slams Howard's anti-terror laws

Doug Lorimer In an interview broadcast on ABC TV's Lateline program on September 12, London-based Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger criticised PM John Howard's plans to introduce new, "tougher" anti-terrorism laws. "There are two

Loose Cannons

Hurricane Dubya "Congressional Republicans, backed by the White House, say they are using relief measures for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf coast to achieve a broad range of conservative economic and social policies, both in the storm zone and beyond

Welfare changes still leave many vulnerable

Jac Taylor, Melbourne On September 21, Dr Elspeth McInnes, convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children, criticised the Howard government's changes to its proposed "welfare-to-work" package as still failing for protect

IRAN: US and EU push WMD frame-up

Doug Lorimer In a September 19 statement accompanying his latest report to a meeting of the 35-country board of governors of the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed ElBaradei declared that "Iran

Write on: Letters to the editor

Combatting depression Iggy Kim (Write On, GLW #641) offers up Cuba's continued use of anti-depressants and electro-shock therapy (ECT) to bolster his argument that drugs, used in combination with community-based psychiatric methods, are the best

On the box

Lonely Planet Six Degrees: Havana — Travel show explores Havana, Cuba from the viewpoint of the people living there. SBS, Friday, September 30, 7.30pm. Sex 'n' Pop: It Ain't Necessarily So — Hits the gay dance floor and traces the history of

VENEZUELA: 'The new Venezuela is a socialist Venezuela'

Green Left Weekly's Lara Pullin, participant in the first Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Brigade, interviewed Nelson Davila, Venezuelan revolutionary and charge d'affaires at the Venezuelan embassy in Canberra. When we were in Venezuela, we heard a

NEW ZEALAND: Labour likely to head coalition government

Bronwen Beechey, Auckland Provisional results from New Zealand's September 17 parliamentary election suggest that the Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark has narrowly won a third term in office. While the final result will not be known

State watch

South Australia The sometimes out-of-control private security industry is being reined in a little in South Australia, with fingerprint and drug tests to be introduced for security personnel. There are about 150,000 private security guards in