What's in latest Green Left Weekly? #379 October 6

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                                 Issue #379
                              October 6, 1999
                         http://www.greenleft.org.au
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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.
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COVER STORY

 * Were the media really on East Timor's side?
 * Previous articles on East Timor: http://www.dsp.org.au/etimor
 * Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor http://www.asiet.org.au

FEATURES

 * The Indonesian Communist Party: Lessons of a defeat
 * Revolt grows against genetically modified food

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'

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

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