GLW issue 565, published 2003-12-10.

On the box

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Young people fight back against racist police violence

BY JESS MELVIN "People are stopped for no reason, bashed for no reason, physically and spiritually abused. They target migrants and people from Third World countries", Hussein Farah from the Somali Youth Association and the Western Suburbs

Abolish prisons, says Angela Davis

BY ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE — African-American socialist Angela Davis called for the abolition of all prisons during a public lecture at the University of Queensland on November 27. Davis was attending the international conference on Women in

IRAQ: Vietnam replayed

BY DOUG LORIMER "It is not Vietnam, and there is no way you can make the comparison", Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US general in Iraq, snapped at a reporter during a November 11 Pentagon press briefing in Baghdad. The reporter had

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Australian News

Save country rail services!

BY TOM FLANAGAN LISMORE — One-hundred-and-fifty people gathered in Lismore's City Hall on December 4 to demand the retention and extension of rail services in the region. Organised by Northern Rivers Trains for the Future, the meeting called for

'Don't destroy our Councils, our communities'

BY CHRIS ATKINSON SYDNEY — Despite widespread opposition from council workers and communities, the NSW Labor government is steamrolling ahead with plans to force local councils to amalgamate at the expense of jobs, facilities and community

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International News

CANADA: Quebec's new united left party

BY RICHARD FIDLER OTTAWA — The past year has been a busy one for a new left-wing party, the Union des Forces Progressistes (UFP — Union of Progressive Forces) in Quebec, Canada's French-speaking province. Founded in 2002, the party fielded

LATIN AMERICA: Cuban Communists call for left unity

BY JORGE JORQUERA Latin America has emerged as the frontline of struggle against neoliberalism. This year alone: two mass uprisings have swept through Bolivia; trade union struggles have intensified in Peru and Chile; political opposition has grown

Further International News

Editorial

NMD will make war more likely

On December 4, defence minister Robert Hill announced that the Australian government will participate in making US President George Bush's trillion-dollar National Missile Defence (NMD) shield — better known as "Son of Star Wars" — a reality.

General

GLW schedule

This is the last issue of Green Left Weekly for 2003. Our next issue will be published on January 14, 2004. See you in the new year! From Green Left Weekly, December 10, 2003. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.

Cultural Dissent

Ellsberg exposed US presidents' 'lying and mass murder'

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersBy Daniel EllsbergPenguin, 2003500 pages, $38(pb) On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg left the Rand Corporation offices in California after a busy day. His

Mutual Obligation

It's somewhere betweenthe obscene and uncleanbut John Howard is my inspiration. You work for the dole.You mortgage your soul,and he calls that liberation. Get off your fat arse,do a job that's first class.Yes, work is your obligation. A hand-up

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