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BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — On October 27, 10,000 construction industry workers marched through the city centre to protest against the first prosecution of a unionist by the Howard government's building industry task force. In a powerful
BY BEN COURTICE MELBOURNE — US left journalist David Barsamian explained, denounced and ridiculed the US President George Bush's "war on terror" to a full house at RMIT's Horti Hall on October 30. Barsamian, a veteran activist and radio
SYDNEY — Treasures of Palestine showcases a wide selection of traditional material ranging from costumes, jewellery and ceramics to mother-of-pearl inlay work, posters, photography and olive-wood sculptures. Through these objects, visitors to the
Greens' protest Green Left Weekly's editorial (#559) correctly argued that "it wasn't hard for the Greens to show up the ALP" and that "the Greens could have gone a bit further by actively helping to build the demonstrations". Further the
BY HERBERT DOCENA MADRID — The US-convened donors' conference on Iraq opened on October 23 amid questions about US$4 billion in Iraqi oil revenues which the US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not account for. As the US began pleading
BY AUSTIN WHITTEN SYDNEY — Anthony Billingsley, a former foreign affairs officer and Office of National Assessments analyst, abruptly cancelled a lecture at Macquarie University on October 23, the day before it was to be delivered. The ONA, his
BY SARAH STEPHEN John Howard must be proud of NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr, though he might never admit it. Howard and Carr see eye to eye on so many issues, most particularly the supposed imminent threat of terrorism in Australia and the calculated
Free market, Dubya style "Companies awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan have been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their executives have had important political and military connections, according to a study
BY ALAN MAASS CHICAGO — The October 25 demonstrations marked the first national US mobilisation of the anti-war movement since the US-led invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco came after the systematic lies of US
In GLW #559, the photograph of the Hobart protest against US President George Bush on page five was incorrectly credited to Alex Bainbridge. The picture was taken by Duncan Meerding.From Green Left Weekly, November 5, 2003. Visit the Green Left

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