GLW issue 524, published 2003-02-05.

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UNITED STATES: Workers organise against war

BY DIANNE FEELEY DETROIT — On January 11, a meeting of more than 100 officers of US trade unions and activists from a number of labour anti-war committees met in Chicago to establish US Labor Against the War (USLAW). The meeting reflected the

BRITAIN: Making a difference

BY DEBRA PAYNE NOTTINGHAM — On January 25, 500 people gathered here to rally against the impending US-British war on Iraq. The action was organised by the local Stop the War Coalition. There were many banners from the groups in attendance, but

UNITED STATES: Bush's biowar hypocrisy

BY KELLIA RAMARES Even as US President George Bush threatens to invade Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein is hiding biological weapons, Washington is hypocritically expanding its own biowarfare research programs. The US government plans to

Loose Cannons

Or had one too many? "[Author David] Frum describes a meeting in the Oval Office last September with five clergymen... 'You know', Bush told them, 'I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is
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