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BY AARON BENEDEK MELBOURNE — In Palestine, young people are resisting Israeli tanks with rocks. In Indonesia, students, workers and peasants are mobilising daily against rising prices and job losses imposed by the International Monetary
BY DOROTHY FLYNN The Pretoria High Court's November 10 rejection of famed anti-apartheid poet Mzwakhe Mbuli's appeal demonstrates the difficulty of dismantling apartheid, especially when the system's engineers and foot soldiers have been retained.
This is the last issue of Green Left Weekly for 2000. The next issue — #432 — will be published on January 17.
School teachers demonstrate in Surabaya On November 29, 60 private school teachers from the Private School Teachers Communication Forum (FKGS) demonstrated at the Surabaya legislative council for improved legal rights and wages. FKGS leader Yudin
Dear Green Left Weekly readers, The 200 million people of Indonesia — the millions of factory and office workers, the tens of millions of farmers and the millions upon millions of unemployed and underemployed — face an impending social and
BY JAMES BALOWSKI Despite a massive presence by Indonesian troops and stern warnings from Jakarta and local police, thousands of West Papuan's on December 1 peacefully celebrated the 39th anniversary of their self-declared independence from Dutch
BY SUE BOLAND The number of senior ALP figures implicated in vote rorting and other shady internal party practices is increasing as middle and lower level ALP figures spill their guts to the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission inquiry headed by
BY ROBERT DARCY SYDNEY — A leaked document that appears to be a management report of a secret meeting between some federal Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) officials and P&O Stevedoring to discuss further retrenchments of workers has caused
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — In recent weeks, the Woomera detention centre has been the focus of media attention, following allegations that the centre's management had covered up the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy at the centre. There have
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE Rage Against The Machine has recorded an album of classic socially and politically charged hip-hop, rock and punk songs. Rage attacks these songs in its typical hard-edged, unconventional fashion. Renegades (Epic) is a
AMWU to launch 'Campaign 2001' Following the success of the Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's 'Campaign 2000', the national AMWU is planning to lodge a combined claim on manufacturing employers with the aim of improving job
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Rise Like Lions: The Hijacking of Australian HistoryBy Steve DavisGinninderra Press, 2000138pp., $19.80 (plus $3.30 postage)Order from PO Box 53, Charnwood ACT, 2516. The cover of Steve Davis' Rise Like Lions: the Hijacking of