http://www.greenleft.org.au * Green Left Weekly, Australia's socialist newspaper Issue #440 March 14, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: HOW THE RICH GAMBLE WITH OUR LIVES On May 1, anti-globalisation protesters will beseige stock exchanges around Australia. Green Left Weekly explains what these symbols of corporate capitalism do and why they are being targeted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COVER STORY * How the rich gamble with our lives JOIN THE M1 (May 1) BLOCKADES! * M1 hits the headlines * Protest targets McHypocrisy * Global revolt on campus * Resistance calls for M1 high school strike * May 1 strike launched at Tasmania Uni * GLAM comes out at Mardi Gras * M1 Canberra to blockade Mining Industry House * Sydney M1 activists plan conference FEATURES * AFRICA: Drug companies put profits ahead of lives * SOUTH AFRICA: `Every day of delay costs lives' INTERNATIONAL NEWS * CANADA: Police try to intimidate FTAA protesters * INDIA: Campaign against globalisation * EUROPEAN UNION: Blair and Amato lead attack on UN refugee convention * EAST TIMOR: Debate over Constituent Assembly election process * KENYA: Another challenge to drug monopolies * KOREA: Daewoo struggle seeks international support * UNITED STATES: Rich get even richer * ACEH: Indonesian military escalates repression * INDIA: Communist leader arrested * WORLD ECONOMY: Big trouble for Big Auto * MEXICO: Zapatista march sparks mass support ISSUES * Democrats and Greens: parties of protest or part of the establishment? * Detention centre inquiries vindicate refugees * Behind Forestry Tasmania's locked gates * Land clearing a political hot potato * Selling nationalism to rip off workers * Grrrrr -- Sexism at Griffith Uni AUSTRALIAN NEWS * `S11 spirit' boosts DSP * Socialist Alliance launch announced * Thousands march on International Women's Day * Iraq and Iran targeted for brutal treatment of women * `Solutions, not persecution' for sex workers * Students resist repression to rally against racism * New refugee detention centre planned * Mirotone tries to break 35-hour week * BHP Coal faces protest as campaign continues * Construction workers strike over workplace deaths * News briefs * Stonemasons get union support * Meeting backs Yallourn power workers CULTURAL DISSENT * America's vengeful Vietnam fantasies * 3CR S11 CD: An experience that will reawaken your fighting spirit * A double indictment ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All articles appearing in Green Left Weekly, and reprinted here, are copyright by their authors. However, most regular contributors have granted permission for their work to be republished by non-profit green, left, human rights or generally progressive publications. Where such permission has NOT been granted, articles are marked with the symbol && in the index above. Before reprinting such an article, or if uncertain whether your publication is allowed to reprint, please inquire by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We like to know what audiences we are reaching, and would therefore appreciate being informed of any republication (in print or electronically). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list