GLW issue 569, published 2004-02-04.

IRAQ: UN called in to salvage US occupation plan

Doug Lorimer "Today our coalition is working ... with Iraqis and the United Nations to prepare for a transition to full Iraqi sovereignty by the end of June", US President George Bush dishonestly declared in his January 21 State of the Union

Our common cause: An open letter to Labor delegates

This statement was distributed by Socialist Alliance members to delegates at the January 29-31 ALP conference. The Howard government is creating a two-tier Australia — one for the rich, another for the poor. It is trying to smash the unions,

IRAQ: Ex-diplomat reveals Australia's illegal killing spree

On January 17, former diplomat Tony Kevin revealed that Australian SAS forces in Iraq had engaged in a "turkey shoot" against Iraqi troops — 30 hours before US President George Bush's declaration of war. Green Left Weekly's Nick Everett spoke to

Write on: Letters to the editor

Russian left and KPRF Tom Freeman (Write On, GLW #566) provides a curious gloss on the article in GLW #565 in which Boris Kagarlitsky discusses the Future of the Left conference held by Russian oppositionists last November in the town of Golitsyno,

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Australian News

Socialists make refugees' rights an election issue

Simon Butler, Newcastle The state of the refugee rights movement and the role local governments can play in strengthening it were the themes of a public meeting hosted by the Newcastle branch of the Socialist Alliance on January 28. Steve

Socialist candidate calls 'Challenge to Beattie' rally

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "We are issuing a challenge to Premier Peter Beattie to use his almost certain big majority after the coming state election to make some significant changes in this state", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for

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International News

UNITED STATES: Weapons inspector admits: Iraq has no WMDs

Rohan Pearce Little more than a week and a half after the publication of a book on the career of US President George Bush's former treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, in which O'Neill confessed he "never saw anything that I would characterise as

CHINA: A huge market or a production rival?

Eva Cheng Hoping that China's enormous population of about 1.2 billion people could be turned into mass consumers for the products of Western companies, Western leaders hailed China's initiatives in the early 1990s to reintegrate into the world

Further International News

Cultural Dissent

A reality check on public education

REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS Our BoysDirected by Kerry BrewsterProduced and edited by Andrea LangScreening on ABC TV8pm, February 10 A new television documentary series about marginalised students in the public education system gives the lie to Prime

Kev Carmody is back

MirrorsKev CarmodySong CyclesA$30 from <http://www.thelastrecordstore.com/independents.html#kevcarmody>. REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Kev Carmody has been much missed since his last original album release, 1995's Images and Illusions. While his

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