By Sue Boland
The furore over the government's intention to impose the GST on tampons — which are presently sales-tax free — is symptomatic of the anger that is building against the GST as its impact and the complexities involved in
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By Sean Healy
In George Orwell's novel 1984, every move you made was caught on camera. In the Hollywood blockbuster Enemy of the State, satellites watched where you went and heard what you said. And in Gattaca, your DNA was tested, diagnosed for
Winston
Regular readers of this column may recall Winston — the John Howard look-alike figure we introduced you in Green Left Weekly #371 in a fit of hopeful passion last year. Winston and I had big plans. Didn't we Winston? We sure did. The
Three kings and a million dead
By Ciaron O'Reilly
It has taken Hollywood nine years to acknowledge some of the truths of the 1991 US massacre in the Persian Gulf. Not that it required rigorous research to uncover the realities layed bare in the
By Norm Dixon
Following the January 21 bombing in Madrid, which apparently brought to an end ETA's (Euskadi Ta Askatasura — Basque Homeland and Freedom) 14-month unilateral cease-fire, the right-wing Spanish government has launched a serious
By Deborah Shnookal
Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the small Cuban boy plucked from the sea and taken to the United States against the will of his family and country, has become the focus of Washington's cold war against Cuba. However, this is not
CPI-ML on the way forward for the Indian left
BALASUBRAMANIAN SIVARAMAN, politburo member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) (CPI-ML) and editor of the party's monthly journal, Liberation, attended the Marxism 2000
By Bernie Wunsch
LISMORE — On February 3, Prime Minister John Howard was forced to run a gauntlet of protesters outside the Lismore City Hall during his tour of rural Australia. Four hundred people protested outside the meeting, Howard's main
Washing the blood from their hands
"I think any comment [beyond "understanding and sympathy"] is really intruding a little into the internal affairs of another country", Prime Minister John Howard opined on the outcome of the Indonesian and United
If you believe the advertisement that the personnel firm Officeteam ran in a number of major newspapers on January 29, temporary work is now the cutting edge of the revolution. "Your resistance to the bonds of 9-5 slavery is about to be rewarded.
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