US President George Bush needs another bloody Gulf War to win the mid-term US Congress elections in November. The serious shooting may start before or after that election, but the troops and the multi-billion dollar killing machines are already
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Your review of Fond Memories of Cuba (GLW #500) is what reluctantly I have come to expect of the dogmatic left response your paper has on too many issues that vitally concern all progressive and left minded people in
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — At a breakfast function for businesspeople here on July 18, deputy prime minister John Anderson was met by banners, placards and twenty-five chanting people opposing the government's policy of the mandatory detention of
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
BRISBANE — On July 18, a 1500-strong rally of health workers marched
to Parliament House demanding fair wages and conditions. Solidarity stop-work
meetings happened simultaneously at major health centres across the
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — "If you're under 30 and born in an Australian hospital, there is a permanent record of your blood which can be used for DNA profiling" a forum was told on July 17.
The meeting, titled "A Critical Forum on Surveillance and
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
TOWNSVILLE — Indonesian trade union leader Dita Sari was one of 29 Third World women activists denied a visa to attend the annual International Women's Conference and the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference
Acclaimed British director Ken Loach's latest film, The Navigators, deals with the experiences of a group of South Yorkshire railway track workers coping with the privatisation of British Rail. The Navigators reveals the "view from below" as the
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — President Megawati Sukarnoputri's support within her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) is falling as she increasingly associates with the political figures from the era of the Suharto dictatorship.
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On July 21, hundreds
of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly supporters around the country gathered to celebrate
the production of the 500th issue of GLW. Pictured is
Akasha performing at the GLW fiesta in Melbourne.
Photo by Peter Johnston.
From Green
BY LIAM MITCHELL
SYDNEY — With the strike at Dayson’s Rydalmere airconditioning re-manufacturing
plant entering its ninth week, the company is under considerable pressure
to end the dispute. The 12 workers on strike have told supporters
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — After a week of coordinated industrial action, 2000 WA enrolled nurses have won a significant pay increase. Enrolled nurses in Perth's major public hospitals, organised in the Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The record vote for the Greens in the July 20 Tasmanian election indicates there has been a swing to the left in the electoral arena. At the close of counting on July 20, the Greens had won four lower-house seats. The
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