Green Left Weekly,
Issue #372
August 18, 1999
Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from
an environmental and left perspective.
Featured this
week:
THE PEOPLE MUST ELECT THE PRESIDENT Those on both sides of the
official republican debate agree on one thing: in the November 6
referendum, voters shouldn't have a chance to vote for what they
favour, direct election of the president. We suggest a method by
which we can make known our demand for greater democracy.
COVER STORY
Republic yes, but not a `safe and conservative' one
Rejecting a phony choice
Putting the mates back in the preamble
RESISTANCE
MAGAZINE
Violence jeopardises ballot in East Timor
East Timor: Will the ballot stop the bloodshed?
ASIET clubs set up on campus
Left unity falters in Hobart
Tom and Nicole nude: big deal
Brighton High film screening
Cunt or vagina?
High school students: a radical history
NEWS
Workers rally against Reith's `second wave'
News briefs
Indonesian unionists' tour off to good start
Big rallies against Badgerys Creek airport
10 reasons to stop Badgerys Creek airport
Rally for abortion rights
ACT forced to negotiate with bursars
Anti-choice campaigner tours
ACT teachers mobilise
Action updates
NSW TAFE faces the axe
Coalminers strike for workers' entitlements
Opposition grows to M5 `death stack'
Dorf and Beauty Ware picketers defiant
Pangea campaign begins
Firefighters suspend action
Nurses refuse to close ward
CPSU tax section council debates `second wave'
Solidarity in northern NSW
Aborigines call for preamble to include their sovereignty
ISSUES
Organising the working class
Wrecking the oceans
Immigration: for an open-door policy
Botanical congress predicts disaster
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS
A night with Falintil
Canadian nurses lead the way
Indonesian activist undaunted by attack
Climate change impacts on Arctic
Y2K nuclear warning
Megawati, Habibie and political alternatives
Anarchists attack Czech left
India:`We may drown, but we will not move'
Pakistanis protest on Hiroshima Day
Indonesian oil workers win strike
Indonesian army stokes violence in Aceh
Timor: `We need to mobilise people's power'
Kargil war: a post-mortem
Kosova: towards partition?
CULTURAL
DISSENT
The pain of crossed paths
Working-class love -- Loach style
Garvarghy Road: A community's heroic resistance
Skin-deep beauty
Leninism and the history of the left On the box
REGULAR
FEATURES
Life of Riley: The very latest draft
and ain't I a woman: Gender roles for sale
Loose cannons
Looking out: Sex and education
Write on: Letters to the editor
Chris Kelly cartoon
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