Green Left Weekly,
Issue #379
October 6, 1999
http://www.greenleft.org.au/
Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from
an environmental and left perspective.
Featured this week:
THE MEDIA AND EAST TIMOR For a few months this year, the
establishment media have provided increased information about East
Timor. Sean Healy explains how and why the media were compelled to
change their line after years of ignoring events there.
COVER STORY
Were the media really on East Timor's side?
FEATURES
The Indonesian Communist Party: Lessons of a defeat
Revolt grows against genetically modified food
RESISTANCE MAGAZINE
Reject the military hype!
Old enough to die, too young for living
Abortion and the fight for women's rights
Student solidarity with Timor at UWS
Abstudy cuts hurt indigenous education
Fem X conference debates
Left activism wins respect
Progress at National Broad Left conference
Swing to the right in Canberra student elections
East Timor campus tour
High school solidarity with East Timor
NEWS
Troubled times for nuclear dump proponents
Hinchinbrook a `tragedy of errors'
Rally opposes industrial laws, supports East Timor
Brown says Labor cooked books on greenhouse
East Timor eyewitnesses speak
A fighting alternative in CPSU elections
NSW Labor under fire from unions
Forum debates East Timor's future
Students, staff to resist cuts
Korean workers meet Australian unionists
Bill may prevent protests
Walk Against Woodchips
ISSUES
Government flags attacks on welfare recipients
Editorial: Tax-deductible racism
Gareth Evans leaves the sunken ship
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
War crimes petition
East Timor: UN investigation only a first step
Interfet makes its mark, slowly
Arms sales a sensitive subject
Gusmao calls for immediate recognition of referendum
Indonesian students shot dead by military
CNRT and the transition to independence
US-trained army battalion inaugurated in Colombia
Turkish right on the rise
Serious accident at Japanese nuclear plant
Japan protests over plutonium fuel delivery
Hong Kong: Democratic Party rejects minimum wage
US drug lords defeated &&
Massacre triggers prison uprising in Turkey
Election success for German socialists
China's privatisation goals decided
Leftists meet in Hungary
International news briefs
Women in the former Eastern bloc: The truth is seeping out
CULTURAL DISSENT
Seigfried Sassoon: Telling the truth about the war
Gambling palace of the future
Exposed to the elements
The Whiteville Choir: Labour songs with soul
Dick Gaughan: Surprises in every performance
Pilger looks behind the Olympics
Poets challenge `Generation X'
REGULAR FEATURES
Loose cannons
Feminist' ... and ain't i a woman?: dieting: repackaging self-
abuse
Life of Riley: The Good Soldier
On the box
Write on: letters to the editor
Jaybee's cartoon
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