What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #502, July 31, 2002

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                       Australia's socialist newspaper
                                Issue #502
                               July 31, 2002

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

Featured this week: MORE LIES ABOUT REFUGEES: RUDDOCK'S DIRTY TRICKS
EXPOSED

In response to the sympathy generated by the Baktiyari boys' bid for
freedom, immigration minister Philip Ruddock has launched a despicable
campaign to cancel Afghan refugees' visas. He claims they are really
Pakistanis. Green Left Weekly exposes the dirty tricks the government
has resorted to in order to deny refugees sanctuary in Australia.

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COVER STORY

 * Ruddock's dirty tricks exposed

FEATURES

 * Stock market chaos and corporate scams: Bad apples or a rotten
system?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * SOUTH AFRICA: The SACP-ANC political merry-go-round
 * SOUTH AFRICA: Municipal workers win bitter strike
 * AFGHANISTAN: More evidence of US crimes
 * AFGHANISTAN:`Unsafe for refugees to return'
 * ACEH: Activists arrested for `insulting' president
 * NICARAGUA: Sandinistas back to red and black
 * UNITED STATES: Laser beam may blind people
 * INDONESIA: Dissident parties work together
 * PALESTINE: 700,000 people under house arrest
 * ECUADOR: Blood on the bananas
 * What is ExxonMobil afraid of?

ISSUES

 * Civilising the building industry
 * Bathurst Uni occupied for 50 days
 * Media complicity in detention policy
 * Port Hedland detainees: `We will never forget you'
 * Psychiatrist reveals: Mandatory detention worse than torture
 * Plutonium, proliferation and profits

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Camer0n strips AMWU state branches of power
 * Staff oppose RMIT detention centre bid
 * Building workers rally against royal commission
 * Support for Baktiyari family
 * Baktiyari boys: `What is our crime?'
 * Socialist Alliance seeks Victorian registration
 * Police attack peaceful protest
 * Dayson workers picket
 * Safe for refugees but not tourists
 * Refugee supporters get together
 * Greens election success causes stir

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Confessions of a teenage Trotskyist
 * A little (true) story
 * `Women can do anything!'
 * Reporting the World: John Pilger's great eyewitness photographers
 * Don't bring your mother
 * 4ZZZ: a shining beacon

REGULAR FEATURES

 * and ain't i a woman: Why there are more men than women in India
 * Editorial: Attack on Workers First is an attack on the left
 * Write On: Letters to Green Left Weekly
 * Jaybee cartoon


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