By Francois Vercammen*
LISBON — A crowd of nearly 1000 gathered in the main amphitheatre of the University of Lisbon on January 29-30 to "listen, discuss, converge" and set up a new political formation — the Bloco de Esquerda, or Left Bloc. The
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Cuban President Fidel Castro has unveiled an audacious but very constructive proposal to break the logjam preventing the reunification of Elian Gonzalez with his father. On March 29, Castro announced that Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, was
George Petersen 19212000
George Petersen, Labor member of state parliament in Wollongong from 1968 to 1988, died at the age of 79 on March 28. Throughout his adult life he was a fighter for the rights of working-class and other oppressed people.
Murdoch University staff strike back
BY JULIA PERKINS
PERTH — Academics and general staff at Murdoch University here passed a motion of no confidence in the university's vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, at a March 24 meeting attended by more
From social security to social control
Over the next few weeks and months you will hear a lot about the interim
report of the government's committee on welfare “reform”, Participation
Support for a More Equitable Society, issued on
By Iggy Kim
LISBON, Portugal — On March 22, a number of Europe's radical left parties met here in the shadows of the European Union Summit. Hosted by Portugal's Left Bloc, the conference aimed to exchange ideas regarding continent-wide
Darwin's raging success
BY ROBERT MILNE
DARWIN — Around 350 people "raged against racism" here on March 25, and raised $1880 for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in the process. The event was the fifth Rage against Racism in Darwin and the largest so far. The
MELBOURNE — It was very pleasing to read in GLW #398 two articles related to the insane drug war that has resulted from the global prohibition of certain drugs. I am a peer educator who has been working intimately with mainly "illicit" drug users
Ten easy steps to be an anticommunist
By Phil Shannon
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, RepressionBy Stephane Courteis, et alHarvard University Press, 1999858pp, US$37.50 The openings for career anticommunists may have dried up a
Why the government fears the UN
The Australian government has been rattled by criticism from United Nations human rights committees. On March 24, the UN's Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a report severely
The Central Leadership Committee of the People's Democratic
Party (PRD) of Indonesia and the branches of PRD receive 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
Weekly every week. Many PRD leaders have read GLW
since early of 1990s.
GLW is very important for us because it
Colombia: US poised to boost intervention
The United States House of Representatives passed a bill on March 30 which approves US$1.7 billion in military aid to Colombia. The package, which includes the setting up of two new Colombian military
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