What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #501 July 24, 2002

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                           Green Left Weekly,
                        Australia's socialist newspaper
                               Issue #501
                             July 24, 2002

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

Featured this week: REFUGEE BOYS: SET THEM FREE!

The forced return of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari to Woomera
immigration prison has horrified millions of people across Australia and
the world. It was a graphic illustration of the cold-hearted inhumanity
of the Australian government's treatment of refugees.

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COVER STORY

 * Outrage as Baktiyari boys jailed again

FEATURES

 * How to solve the health crisis
 * The US health system disaster

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * INDONESIA: People's congress call gains support
 * INDONESIA: Megawati betrayal may split PDIP
 * Sun, sand and socialism Tommy Sheridan's Cuban diary
 * The hypocrisy of an `imperial democracy'
 * Ralph Nader: `US should let Cubans breathe'
 * UNITED STATES: George Bush's corporate crime ring
 * IRAQ: `Tyrants and oppressors' line up for Saddam's job
 * UNITED STATES: Should we blame the `Israel lobby'?
 * BOLIVIA: US opposes selection of a socialist president
 * BOLIVIA: Who is Evo Morales?
 * INDONESIA: US strengthens military ties
 * MEXICO: Farmers win first round in airport fight
 * UNITED STATES: Bosses increase pressure on dockworkers
 * AFRICAN UNION: Masters and houseboys unite
 * ACEH: Indonesian-backed militia behind terror?
 * RUSSIA: Capitalism loses its shine

ISSUES

 * Irradiation plant endangers health
 * Protesters oppose irradiation plant
 * Surveillance and social control
 * Increased vote for Greens a sign of hope
 * Pathway to poverty: the truth about `new apprenticeships'
 * SIEV-X: the warning that could have saved lives
 * `This commission is a political witch-hunt'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Doug Camer0n's intimidation steps up
 * CPSU rank-and-file call for a real union!
 * Activists confront Anderson on refugees, Telstra
 * News briefs
 * AMWU members defend union democracy
 * Dayson under pressure to end dispute
 * Damage at Sandon Point
 * Socialist Alliance scores record vote
 * GLW supporters celebrate 500 issues
 * Nurses reject deal, reimpose bans
 * Industrial win for enrolled nurses
 * Dita Sari denied visa for feminist conference
 * 1500 march for fair wages and conditions

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Quantock show slams treatment of refugees
 * Manic Street Preachers support Cuba
 * The Oscar Wilde they never quote
 * Ken Loach's The Navigators


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