Stop the war in Aceh! -- Green Left Weekly #539 May 28, 2003

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Green Left Weekly,
Australia's socialist newspaper
Issue #539 May 28, 2003
Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: STOP THE WAR IN ACEH!

COVER STORY
* ACEH: Jakarta declares all-out war
* INDONESIA: Protests in Jakarta on Aceh

FEATURES
* 55 years of oppression: Palestinians demand freedom!
* Save our universities: free education not deregulation
* Industrial action essential to defend public education


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

* SOUTH AFRICA: The `in-between' politics of Walter Sisulu
* SRI LANKA: Tamil plantation workers fight for rights
* SAUDI ARABIA: CIA front targeted in terrorist attacks
* IRAQ: Protests against US occupation continue
* IRAQ: Security Council approves US occupation
* A pack of war profiteers
* CUBA: Daring to resist the US empire
* UNITED STATES: Bush greets Cuban terrorists
* Solidarity with Cuba
* FRANCE: Strikes put government on defensive
* CANADA: Political trial ends in mistrial
* ARGENTINA: Workers seize control of factories
* PUERTO RICO: US Navy pushed out of Vieques

ISSUES

* Editorial: Crean's `alternative' budget
* Breakthrough on 36-hour work week for metal workers
* A woman's place is in the struggle: Laci Peterson's legacy
* Carr sets the pace in attacking our freedoms
* Gordon (Vic) Little: 1914 2003
* Abbott plans new attack on unions by stealth
* The death of Aldo: Is this humanity?
* Multi-tendency rights protected in Socialist Alliance
* Socialist Alliance: Steps towards reviving militant unionism

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

* Arrested for protesting in Jakarta
* Students protest Coalition education `reforms'
* Australians show solidarity with Aceh
* Anti-war forum hears from human shield
* Morris McMahon dispute escalates
* Bracks' new law protects insurance company profits
* Militant alternative does well in CPSU election
* AMWU members face lockouts
* Anti-deportation campaign launched
* Equality kiss off
* Systematic ACM cover-up at Woomera exposed
* Weapons convention to be targeted by protesters
* World's largest flowering plant killed

CULTURAL DISSENT

* Matrix Reloaded: Take the red pill
* Opera brings 1975 to life
* The Life of David Gale: An insult to opponents of the death penalty
* Poem: Don't trample on the flower
* Support 3CR -- the voice of dissent, peace
* Dancing on free speech's grave in New Mexico

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