GLW issue 523, published 2003-01-29.

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The power of our 'alliance of the unwilling'

BY PIP HINMAN US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity

INDONESIA: Left-wing opposition coalition formed

BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — On January 22, more than 300 journalists and other observers crammed into a room in the Struggle Museum to hear representatives of several political and social movement organisations announce the formation of a new

UNITED STATES: Why hundreds of thousands marched

BY MALIK MIAH SAN FRANCISCO — In the largest anti-war protest since the peace marches of the Vietnam War era, some 200,000 people filled the streets here on January 18. Demanding "No war against Iraq", the demonstrators were a representative

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