What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #496 June 19, 2002

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                      Australia's socialist newspaper
                                 Issue #496
                               June 19, 2002

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

Featured this week: NO IFS, NO BUTS... END DETENTION OF REFUGEES!

The movement in defence of refugees' right is growing in Australia.
Thousands are expected to demonstrate against the federal government's
treatment of asylum seekers on June 23. As a contribution to the
discussion within the movement, Green Left Weekly is publishing an open
letter that argues that refugees' rights activists should not support
detention of asylum seekers, not even for "minimal periods".

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COVER STORY

 * No detention: open letter to the refugees' rights movement
 * Why we signed

FEATURES

 * How the US helped Pakistan get the bomb

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * SCOTLAND: Tommy Sheridan: a shop steward for the working class
 * INDIA/PAKISTAN: Left stages coordinated protests against war drive
 * BRITAIN: Demonstrators condemn Vajpayee, Musharraf
 * FRANCE: Some gleam in the election gloom
 * PALESTINE: Israel's war of terror continues
 * BRITAIN: Blairite coup in civil service union
 * INDIA: 10,000 families face inundation
 * EAST TIMOR: People to people solidarity
 * PACIFIC: Decolonisation far from over
 * BRITAIN: Labour follows Ruddock's lead on refugees
 * NEW ZEALAND: High Court finds detention breaks UN rules
 * ISRAEL: Palestinian intifada accentuates economic crisis
 * UNITED STATES: Why race-based data is necessary to combat racism
 * ITALY: World hunger: what went wrong?
 * CUBA: Millions declare `socialismo si!'

ISSUES

 * Crean under pressure from refugee movement
 * Howard government rejects Kyoto Protocol
 * Senate must reject `anti-terror' bills
 * A pre-emptive strike against refugees

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Public Servants for Refugees
 * Tariq Ali: `This empire has to be fought'
 * Writers' Festival profiles activists
 * APHEDA delegation returns from Palestine
 * Aboriginal ancestral remains returned
 * Protests hit food irradiation plant
 * Suburban actions for refugees' rights
 * Government condemns asylum seekers to death
 * BHP workers dare to strike and win
 * More attacks on Victorian unionists
 * Caltex workers' victory
 * Unions attempt to stop deportation
 * Nurses act to end crisis
 * Nurses launch work-to-rule campaign
 * Rally to save Footscray pool
 * Students `too qualified', says CSU

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Images of struggle and survival
 * Poem: Photos of Jenin
 * Punk rock's Silver Jubilee
 * Chumbawamba trashes Betty's big bash
 * Small world, big screen
 * Louis Proyect on Stephen Jay Gould

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