People's power can stop the war! -- What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #527 February 26, 2003

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                           Green Left Weekly,
                     Australia's socialist newspaper
                                 Issue #527
                             February 26, 2003

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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: People's power can stop the war! Students to strike
on March 5

In the wake of the historic February 14-16 global anti-war protests, in
which at least 12 million people took part, students are organising an
international strike against the war on Iraq on March 5. Green Left
Weekly reports on the progress of this excellent initiative and presents
more eye-witness reports of the February protests. And check out the
bonus colour souvenir poster (PDF).

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COVER STORY

 * March 5 student strike: `activating society' against the war

FEATURES

 * 5 reasons to join the March 5 student strike
 * John Pilger's Feb 16 speech in Sydney: Bush, Blair, Howard, Murdoch
have `blood on their hands!'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * IRAQ: Pentagon plans holocaust in Baghdad
 * IRAQ: European leaders reject US rush to war
 * Tariq Ali on the `United Nations of America'
 * SPAIN: Four million marchers shake Aznar
 * NEW ZEALAND: Anti-war protests pressure Labour
 * IRELAND: Don't forget Dublin!
 * UNITED STATES: March 5 student strike gathers momentum
 * Anti-war protests across Asia
 * ANTARCTICA: Bush's war plans given cold shoulder
 * HONG KONG: Democratic rights under threat
 * EGYPT: Anti-war activists arrested and tortured
 * ITALY: Millions of people flood Rome
 * FRANCE: 500,000 say `Non a la guerre! Oui, a la paix!'
 * ACEH: Indonesia violates peace accord
 * GERMANY: Berlin demonstrated too -- and how!
 * CANADA: Support for refugees a feature of Toronto anti-war march
 * BRITAIN: Blair in trouble as millions march
 * BRITAIN: February 15 was `something remarkable and beautiful'
 * UNITED STATES: Anti-war protests gain strength, breadth
 * UNITED STATES: Chicago defies Bush and cold to oppose war

ISSUES

 * Student speaks: `The people of Iraq have suffered enough'
 * Socialists urge voters to write `No war' on ballots
 * Socialist candidate and political refugee: `We can give hope to
people'
 * Socialist Alliance for lesbian and gay rights
 * Revolutionary feminism and socialist unity
 * Labor divisions over war deepen
 * Indigenous leaders oppose war
 * The significance of the mass anti-war protests
 * Left must unite in this struggle
 * RMIT pledges support for refugees
 * An activist for refugees' rights
 * CFMEU's national 36 hour campaign continues

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Anti-war organising in Mackay
 * March 5 strike builds in Adelaide
 * Labor overrides tribunal to build dam
 * Police destroy part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
 * Unions Tasmania opposes unilateral US war
 * Rumbiak denounces West Papua provincial carve up
 * Howard refugee policy `brutalising'
 * Call for anti-war convergence at federal parliament
 * Anti-war activist notebook
 * Anti-war activist notebook 2
 * Anti-war activist notebook 3
 * Construction workers fly their colours
 * Armed police terrorise Melbourne building workers
 * Forum discusses how Iraq war can be stopped

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * `Deglobalisation'? Sure, but what's next?
 * Scorcese's Gangs of New York: an epic whitewash
 * Ecopella celebrates the Earth
 * Art show for asylum seekers
 * Words against war


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