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  • Tent Embassy tour

    The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is undertaking a statewide speaking tour from late July into August. Aboriginal elders will address community meetings to discuss the history, recent developments and future of Aboriginal political action. Since the

  • We are taking a break

    We are taking a break Green Left Weekly is taking a week off to enable our contributors and distributors to attend the Resistance National Conference in Melbourne on July 8-11. The next issue of GLW will be dated July 21. Don't miss it!

  • East Timor delegation calls for solidarity

    East Timor delegation calls for solidarityMELBOURNE — Belinda Morieson, branch secretary of the Australian Nurses Federation, and John Cummins, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union construction division branch

  • Resistance conference guest attacked

    Resistance conference guest attackedDhyta Caturani, who was scheduled as a guest speaker at the Resistance National Conference in Melbourne, July 8-11, was attacked by the Indonesian military in Jakarta on July 1. Dhyta was

  • Jabiluka Heritage Embassy planned

    The fight to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine is at a critical point. On July 12, The UN World Heritage Commission (WHC) will decide whether to list Kakadu National Park as "World Heritage in danger" because of the mine, which is

  • Cancel all Third World debt!

    Cancel all Third World debt!In 1992, a memo by the World Bank's chief economist and vice-president Lawrence Summers was leaked to the media. In it Lawrence asked, "Shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty

  • Students and Sustainability to meet in Sydney's west

    Students and Sustainability to meet in Sydney's westSYDNEY — Students and Sustainability, the annual national student environment conference, will kick off at the University of Western Sydney's Hawkesbury campus on July 12.

  • Carnell survives no-confidence vote

    "My heart was saying kick her out. My head was asking, 'Are the matters raised sufficient to justify a genuine lack of confidence in the chief minister?'". With these words, right-wing independent and Liberal

  • Solidarity or a sliding scale of oppression?

    Solidarity or a sliding scale of oppression?The way forward for women's liberation — or even if there is a need to keep fighting for collective liberation — continues to be debated within feminism. In recent years, there

  • Exposing the G7 lies

    Exposing the G7 liesWas last month's G7 Summit (bringing together the United Kingdom, United States, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and Germany) in Cologne a move towards cancelling poor countries' debts? Don't believe all you're

  • Homosexuality in Cuba: revolution within the revolution

    Pre-revolutionary Cuba was no paradise for gays and lesbians. There were gay bars where homosexual men could meet, but to be a maricone (faggot) was to be a social outcast. Laws made it illegal to be gay and police targeted homosexuals

  • Kurds protest Ocalan death sentence

    Kurds protest Ocalan death sentenceMore than 150 members of the Kurdish community travelled to Canberra on June 30 to condemn the death sentence imposed by a Turkish security court on the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party,