Congratulations to Green Left Weekly on its 500th issue. Like other supporters of this fine socialist newspaper, I know only too well the hard committed work that has achieved this landmark. I personally owe GLW a great deal. There are few other
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On October 18, a leaky 19-metre Indonesian fishing boat, with a capacity of 150 passengers, picked up more than 400 asylum seekers from Lampung to make the journey to Christmas Island.
A few hours out to sea, the boat started leaking and capsized
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
HOBART — Two green left parties are contesting the Tasmanian state elections to be held here on July 20. Both launched their campaigns in the week following the close of nominations.
The Socialist Alliance launched its
Except on Mondays
"It is not a policy of this coalition to target innocents, nor would it ever be to target innocents" — Lieutenant General Dan McNeill, US commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, July 6, after acknowledging that US warplanes
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Isn't there someone that you would like to share the information you receive through Green Left Weekly with? Perhaps you want to add more weight to the household dinner table discussions, or perhaps a workmate has seen you reading
From the Bush crusade to foreign aid,Iraqi sanctions to the world's arms trade;from the threat of globalisationto social welfare in this nationyou tore through the tissue of lies500 issues they despise.
Street sellers in the rain,it was worth the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalisation, Corporate Cons and High Finance FraudstersBy Greg PalastPluto Press, 2002211 pages, $59.95 (hb)
Ultra-right millionaire and
[The following call to action was issued by Public Servants for Refugees, a network initiated by Andrew Hall, a Canberra public servant. Since then, Public Servants for Refugees networks have spread from the ACT to NSW and Victoria. The networks can
When the first issue of Green Left Weekly appeared, US President George Bush senior's war on Iraq was raging; 500 issues later, President George Bush junior is planning another massive invasion of sanction-crippled Iraq, as imperial wars rage in
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Take Care of My Cat
Directed by Jeong Jae-eun
Starring Bae Doo-na, Lee Yo-won, Ok Ji-young, Lee Eun-sil, Lee Eun-ju
Distributed by Cinema Service Co, email <rachel@cinemaservice.com>
Screened at the 49th Sydney
BY KATHY NEWNAM
NEWCASTLE — A solemn 80-strong protest in Civic Park on July 12 was the culmination of a week-long vigil in solidarity with hunger strikers in the Woomera detention centre.
Dave McKay, who is visiting Newcastle from the Refugee
Fond Memories of Cuba A documentary by David BradburyScreening at Valhalla Cinema, Sydney. Opens at the Schonell Cinema, Brisbane, July 18; Nova Cinema, Melbourne, July 25; and the Electric Shadows Cinema, Canberra, late July.
REVIEW BY KIM
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