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Write on: letters to the editor

Abortion debate With regards to the article "Harassing us into submission" (GLW #810), what is interesting in this debate, or lack thereof, is that at no time is there dialogue on when life actually begins. This would then determine whether a

Green Left Weekly Fighting Fund: Our internationalism is highly valued around the world

Green Left Weekly is highly valued by its many international readers. Every week, Farooq Tariq and his comrades in the Labour Party Pakistan “eagerly await” the arrival of this particular newspaper from far-off Australia. Pakistan is now a “hot-spot” in the US-led war against Afghanistan.

NSW Climate Camp speaks louder than words

The NSW town of Helensburgh, an hour south of Sydney, is now gripped by a discussion about coal and green jobs after the NSW Climate Camp held over October 9-11.

Response from Balibo consulting historian to John Pilger

Lewis Carroll once wrote about a fictitious map that was so topographically accurate, it was as large as the country it was mapping.

Michael Moore slays capitalism

Capitalism: A Love StoryWritten, directed & produced by Michael MooreIn cinemas November 5

Racism begets violence in Alice Springs

Five Alice Springs men have been charged for the July 25 bashing of Aboriginal man Kwementyaye Ryder. The killing is part of a spate of racist violence that has plagued Alice Springs over recent months.

Circumstantial evidence convicts 'terrorists'

In one of the longest and most expensive criminal trials in Australian history, five Muslim men were convicted in Parramatta Court on October 16 of “conspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act”.

The good and the bad of the Greens' CPRS amendments

The Greens released a set of 22 amendments to the Rudd Labor government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on October 12.

Mary Travers: the music will endure

Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular and influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on September 16 after treatment for leukaemia. She was 72.

Just transition tour: 'cut emissions, create jobs'

NEWCASTLE — Climate change campaigners have ridiculed the Australian Coal Association’s “cut emissions, not jobs” ad campaign, announcing their own campaign “to cut emissions, create jobs”.

SA attorney general: 'Indigenous better off in jail'

South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has come under fire from Indigenous leaders over his October 11 statement that a “hard core group of repeat offenders” were “pure evil” and could not be rehabilitated.

United States: Chomsky on the Cuban Five

Renowned author and academic Noam Chomsky answers a question during a public meeting in September on the case of the Cuban Five.