"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount." — George Bernard Shaw
Ms Stewart was very near despairing as she looked out of the window because she had no food and because she had only 25 cents left. She was
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Sometime in our lives, many of us will make a trip overseas. Perhaps it will be for political reasons, family reasons, or simply to see something different. Whatever your reason, why not take Green Left along for the ride?
Green Left Weekly is
By Lisa Macdonald
Socialists and other progressive activists from around Australia will be gathering in all capital cities (including Darwin and Canberra) on or around the Easter long weekend to participate in a political feast. The "Democratic
By Iggy Kim
In the face of a propaganda offensive by the major parties, the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the establishment media for the election of a "stable" government, the Tasmanian Greens lost of one of their five seats
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Since supporters of President Boris Yeltsin were routed in parliamentary elections in December, Russians have been faced with the prospect that their next president may be Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the
By Ita Breduauer
BRISBANE — The March 28 national day of action against voluntary student unionism here will begin at noon in King George Square, with a march to Parliament House. There will also be live entertainment on the Kidney Lawn at
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the WestBy David RieffVintage, 1995. 240pp., $17.95Reviewed by Rob Graham Part of the rapidly growing body of literature on the former Yugoslavia, this is a liberal journalist's largely first-hand account of
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — The first "Wring out" of Fairlea Women's Prison was held in 1988. This describes the encircling of the prison and putting the squeeze on the Department of Corrections. The aim is to get people to come to the prison
East Timor Update
DARWIN — Around 50 people attended an East Timor Update held by Australians for a Free East Timor on March 19. The meeting was also a commemoration of activist Jason Porter, who recently died in a motorcycle accident in
By Pip Hinman
The March 15 announcement by the minister for resources, Senator Warwick Parer, that Australia would be "delighted" to sell uranium to Indonesia for its planned nuclear power stations, is an indication of just how quickly the
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