What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #503 August 7, 2002

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                              Green Left Weekly,
                       Australia's socialist newspaper
                                 Issue #503
                              August 7, 2002

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

Featured this week: MANDATORY DETENTION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS IS TORTURE

On July 24, the Australian government voted against strengthening the UN
convention against torture, claiming its vote had nothing to do with
preventing UN scrutiny of its treatment of asylum seekers. Green Left
Weekly explains why this claim is a lie.

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COVER STORY

 * Mandatory detention is torture

FEATURES

 * Why the Democrats split

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * CASTRO: `Our country is an example of what can be done with minimal
resources'
 * IRAQ: US war drums beat louder
 * AFGHANISTAN: US removed evidence of massacre
 * PALESTINE: Israeli military targets civilians
 * PALESTINE: Israeli settlers go on rampage in Hebron
 * BRITAIN: The great charade
 * UNITED STATES: Another contra scandal?
 * NEW ZEALAND: Alliance, Nationals big losers in poll
 * FRANCE: Sangatte refugee camp to be closed
 * BRITAIN: Treatment of asylum seekers reaches new low
 * BRITAIN: Summer of discontent

ISSUES

 * Woomera nuclear dump provides `opportunities'
 * Debate: Turning our backs on Labor
 * ALP can be changed from within

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Unionists' refugees' kit launched
 * No war on Iraq!
 * Socialists launch Bankstown branch
 * Detention of asylum seekers `inhuman and degrading'
 * Horror conditions for refugees on Nauru exposed
 * Seafarers fight to save jobs
 * Protests wherever Ruddock goes in rural NSW
 * Militant unionists face further attacks
 * Asylum seekers beaten in ACM rampage
 * Construction workers defiant
 * Students protest for refugees
 * Refugee sanctuaries on campuses?

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Empire: A revolutionary manifesto for the 21st century?
 * Loach exposes privatisation's pitfalls
 * An evening with John Pilger

REGULAR FEATURES

 * and ain't i a woman?: Another present for the fanatics
 * Write on: Letters to the editor


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