Issue 511

The Green Left Weekly staff are taking a well-earned break this week. The next issue of GLW (#512) will be published on October 16. From Green Left Weekly, October 2, 2002. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page. 

BY ROHAN PEARCE MELBOURNE — “Even if United Nations Security Council support for this war is granted, the agenda behind the war won't change”, Kim Halpin, a member of Resistance and the La Trobe University education officer, told a

BY NICK FREDMAN LISMORE — Chanting, "Education for people, not for profit", and "Whose streets? Our streets!", 300 university and high school students and university workers brushed aside police objections to spill onto the streets on September

BY MARINA CARMAN& DALE MILLS SYDNEY — A meeting initiated by the No WTO network was held on September 21 to discuss protest actions against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting of trade ministers to be held on November 14-15. Around 100

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — By September 30, 471 Socialist Alliance members had returned letters to the Victorian electoral commission confiming their membership. The commission must receive a further 29 positive responses by October 4

BY SOBHI ALBADAWI& NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — Mustapha Barghouthi, president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, gave a presentation on the situation in Palestine at the Trades and Labor Council on September 20. Barghouthi was in

BY MICK BULL MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Federated Engine Drivers and Fireman's Association (FEDFA) have reached an in-principle agreement with the Master Builders Association (MBA) over

BY SUE BULL& GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — A public meeting against war on Iraq on September 26 attracted 250 people. The meeting was organised by the Victorian Peace Network. Featured speakers at the meeting were Dr Scott Burchill from Deakin

[This letter was received from Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September 27.] Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA According to independent left-wing Colombian MP Gustavo Montealegre Almario, Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, is the leader of the country's right-wing paramilitary death squads groups. Montealegre told Green Left

BY BEN COURTICE On August 9, the US State Department designated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New Peoples Army (NPA) as “foreign terrorist organizations” and implored other governments to do the same. On August

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Last October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains. She and her husband Nasser set out in a friend's car for the hospital in Bethlehem, in

In early August, three revolutionary socialist organisations in the Philippines — the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Workers Party of the Philippines, PMP), the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (Socialist Party of Labour, SPP) and the Partido

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — The immigration detention centre at Woomera in South Australia has been at the centre of the public controversy surrounding the mandatory detention of asylum seekers since it was opened in 1999. The brutal conditions

Green Left Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly with his collection of sculptures “The Subterraneans”, modelled on members of the Howard cabinet, and Kelly's stand-alone piece titled “John Howard — Desert Warrior — the Poor Man's Napoleon” (above).