BY SEAN HEALY
This week, Green Left Weekly celebrates its 10th birthday. Through a decade of tumult, of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions, we've lived long and prospered.
Our first issue actually appeared on February 28, 1991 but, such
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — "We must work together to build a wall of public opinion against corporate greed and exploitation", Cuban Communist Party member Abelardo Cueto Sosa told the biggest meeting of left activists to be held in Sydney's
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), the child of Gennady Zyuganov, might to almost the same degree be called the child of Boris Yeltsin. Throughout the entire period from 1993 to 1999 the party had a clearly
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Radio Rentals has locked out 40 technicians, members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, over a long-running pay dispute. The technicians have been demanding a 5% pay rise, which would be their first since
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in the alleged August "riots" at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre, in the South Australian desert, began here on December 18. The case against the first defendant,
The Green Left Weekly Fighting Fund got off to a flying start at the Democratic Socialist Party's January 3-7 congress. Members and supporters of the party pledged a massive $121,615 at the congress rally. It was the first of a series of special
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
AND MELANIE SJOBERG
Workers employed at BHP operations in WA's Pilbara region must be
feeling a bad sense of dj
vu. In January last year, they were
forced to fight to defend their jobs and hard-won conditions when
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the PoorEdited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce Millen, Alec Irwin and John GershmanCommon Courage Press, Monroe, MaineAvailable at <http://www.amazon.com>
REVIEW BY STEPHEN LANGFORD
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BY ALISON DELLIT
With its December 14 response to the final report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, the McClure report, the federal government has taken a giant step down its desired path of restructuring the entire welfare system.
By
BY JIM GREEN
The incoming administration of George W Bush is planning a controversial national missile defence (NMD) system as part of its broader military build-up — a reprise of the failed "Star Wars" efforts of Presidents Ronald Reagan and
BY JOHN McGILL
Khalil (not his real name) is a middle-aged married man with four young children. He is a Shi'ite Muslim, was born in Iraq and was a shoemaker by profession.
As a teenager, he was conscripted into the Iraqi army. That was in the
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