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Free Iraq! "Get us out of here now! There is nothing we can do to pacify the Iraqi people except get out of their country and allow them to restore order in whatever way THEY wish." — Excerpt from a letter from a US soldier in Iraq to his mother,
MELBOURNE — Workers from One Steel subsidiary Martin Bright Steels have been on strike for more than two weeks, as part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Campaign 2003. The strike follows two weeks of overtime bans. The workers are
BY SARAH STEPHEN For the past 18 months, through a brutal policy of deterrence by force, the federal government has been able to temporarily isolate Australia from the reality that vast numbers of people in the Middle East and South-East Asia are
BY DALE McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — When the African National Congress government of South Africa introduced its neoliberal Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) macro-economic framework in 1996, it promised South Africans that it would result
BY DOUG LORIMER Iraqis "are conducting what I would describe as a classical guerrilla-type campaign against us", General John Abizaid, the newly appointed commander of the US occupation army in Iraq, admitted on July 16. Only a week earlier, US
BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — In a victory for militant unionism, the Members Reform Team, consisting of rank-and-file postal workers, has won control of the Victorian postal and telecommunications (P&T) branch of the communications division of the
BY EVA CHENG Hong Kong secretary for security Regina Ip, notorious for her arrogant and bureaucratic handling of the territory's controversial proposed anti-subversion law (article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law, the territory's "constitution"),
Justice for Palestinians Kimberly James Roachelle in her letter on Israel (Green Left Weekly #545), sounds like a defender of South Africa during its apartheid years. From my reading, there is no hatred of Israel in the pages of GLW. Kimberly James
BY DOUG LORIMER In GLW #545, Kieran Latty claimed "that the world economy grew continuously between 1950 and 1974, seemingly contradicting Karl Marx's prediction of continuing crisis". If by this, Latty meant that Marx predicted capitalism would
Around 2000 people protested against the visit of US President George Bush in Pretoria on July 9. In Cape Town, more than 1500 people marched. Anti-War Coalition spokesperson Shaheed Mahomed said the protests were aimed at the US government's brutal
BY JUSTIN TUTTY DARWIN — Two of the Northern Territory's major rivers face serious threats from development proposals. Australians are already struggling to comprehend the billions of dollars that will be required just to keep the
ALEIDA GUEVARA is a Cuban pediatrician and the eldest daughter of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Aleida March. She works at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana, but has also used her skills to aid the people of