What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #411 July 12, 2000

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                                 Issue #411
                               July 12, 2000

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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: WHY LABOR WON'T ABOLISH HOWARD'S GST

The ALP ``opposition'' has been making much ado about its intention to
``roll back'' the GST when next in government but stops well short of
promising to abolish this regressive and discriminatory tax. Abolishing the
GST would be easy, so what's Labor's problem?
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COVER STORY

 * Why Labor won't abolish Howard's GST

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * INDONESIA: Behind the `religious' violence in Maluku
 * PAKISTAN: Authorities arrest unionists
 * FIJI: Military appointed government `completes the coup'
 * IRAQ: Let's destroy this lethal weapon!
 * IRAQ: Support the campaign against the sanctions
 * ZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF severely injured in MDC landslide
 * SOUTH AFRICA: Thousands march to demand access to AIDS treatment
 * Rich countries' post-Seattle manoeuvring
 * CUBA: Elian's homecoming -- when the people heard the news
 * CUBA: New US bill tightens blockade
 * EAST TIMOR:Political clarification as transition unfolds
 * INDONESIA: PRD files lawsuit against Suharto
 * INDONESIA: Yet another human rights investigation compromised
 * INDONESIA and EAST TIMOR news briefs
 * SWITZERLAND: Conference against neo-liberalism
 * GERMANY: The end of nuclear power or the end of the Greens?
 * MEXICO: Ruling party's defeat changes political panorama
 * AUSTRIA: Trade unions organise day of action
 * INDIA: Mass campaign to resist massacres in Bihar
 * HONG KONG & MACAU: Protest waves test Beijing's promises
 * UNITED STATES: Race and class -- `Downloading while Asian'
 * LEBANON postcard
 * IMF: A `useful veil' for austerity

FEATURES

 * The Female Eunuch 30 years on
 * Editorial: Slash Australia's war spending!

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Phil Cohen and Patricia Ford: Emotionally powerful stories of real
people
 * Cannon's Socialism on Trial: Clear and convincing account of
socialism
 * Bring Out the Dead: Barbarism, US style

ISSUES

 * Resistance conference dares to struggle and win
 * Australian plutonium venture warrants scrutiny
 * Late-term abortion fans anti-choice flames
 * A letter from John Howard
 * Robert Long is lucky to be alive
 * Judith Wright, 1915-2000
 * Jessie Mary (Bon) Hull, March 28, 1915-June 16, 2000
 * ACTU congress goes nowhere

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * The `privatisation of everything'
 * Tasmanian upper house stymies land rights
 * Union backdown on tax office agreement
 * Queensland hospital workers strike
 * Student environmentalists back collective action
 * Clouds gather over Bondi stadium
 * Sydney protests against the GST
 * Arabunna walkers reach Broken Hill
 * Pay equity a small step closer in NSW
 * Textile workers win right to pattern bargain
 * John Howard, the `miniature man'
 * `World heritage in danger' campaign intensified

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