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REVIEW BY TYRION PERKINS In the Spirit of Wandering Teachers: the Cuban Literacy Campaign, 1961 Edited by Alexandra Keeble Ocean Press, Melbourne, 2001 $24.95 In the Spirit of Wandering Teachers is a poster-size book that
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
Zionism Philip Mendes contribution to the debate on the Israel/Palestine dispute is typical of the Israeli public relations machine. Ceaselessly and selectively dragging up past Palestinian transgressions. Maybe the Mufti of Jerusalem
BY SUE BOLTON Why would Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron be trying to get rid of Craig Johnston, the AMWU's Victorian branch secretary, when this branch has been more successful than any other branches at
BY GILLIAN DAVY MELBOURNE — On July 10, news broke that RMIT University has joined private prison operator Group 4 Falck to tender for the delivery of "educational and recreational sporting activities" to asylum seekers in Australian detention
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — For 101 days, British Royal Marines have been engaged in a farcical operation as mercenaries of the United States, whose lawlessness now qualifies it as the world's leading rogue state. Shooting at shadows, and
BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — At the beginning of August, the nine branches of Socialist Alliance in NSW will begin to pre-select candidates for the March 2003 NSW election. A state conference at the University of Technology, Sydney, on
Museworthy: Afton Blommor (Evening Flower) for Par Lagerkvist You asked our questionsWhen we could not have asked themBecause we did not know what would fulfil usBecause we did not know what to askThat you were forgotten is rightThat what you
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG BRISBANE — The bitter industrial dispute in May over the use of underpaid, non-unionised labour on the CSL Yarra was reignited when the re-flagged ship, now called the Stadacona, returned to Australian waters. The Maritime
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Caswell, Australian Conservation Foundation "> WMC's hypocrisy on greenhouse emissions BY JIM GREEN On June 10, Hugh Matheson Morgan AO, chief executive of WMC Limited, was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to business,
BY CHRIS CAIN When the Workers First team, headed by Craig Johnston, was first elected to lead the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) in Victoria in 1998, it was like a breath of fresh air coming into the union movement. What the