Terror in Aceh - End military ties with Indonesia! --Green Left Weekly #540 June 4, 2003

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Green Left Weekly,
Australia's socialist newspaper
Issue #540
June 4, 2003

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

Featured this week: Terror in Aceh - End military ties with Indonesia!

On May 19, Jakarta launched a terror war against the people of Aceh.
Ever since, the Australian government has repeatedly stated it is in
Australia's "national interest" to support the "territorial integrity"
of Indonesia. This is what it told us during East Timor's 25-year-long
independence struggle. It was false then and it is false now. Green Left
Weekly explains why.

COVER STORY

* A return to bipartisan bad policy?
* ACEH: Civilians, rights activists targeted in terror war

FEATURES

* Ruddock's Iran deal: Don't send asylum seekers back to die!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

* UNITED STATES: `Bring back Nevins!'
* WORLD ECONOMY: Stagnation fuels fears of deflation, trade war
* SCOTLAND: Putting socialism back on the agenda
* INDONESIA: Aceh war overshadows Jakarta peace conference
* EAST TIMOR: Solidarity with people of Aceh
* UNITED STATES: Right to remain silent undermined
* IRAQ: Resistance forces US about-face
* FRANCE: Confrontation enters crucial stage
* FRANCE: Africa in Evian -- Will G8 revive NEPAD?
* PALESTINE: Sister of severely injured solidarity activist speaks
* IRAN: Rumsfeld puts Tehran `on notice'
* ZIMBABWE: Mass protests planned for June
* INDIA: 50 million strike against privatisation
* VENEZUELA: Bolivarian Circles in frontline of the revolution
* CHINA: SARS exposes looming health crisis

ISSUES

* Repression in Aceh 'extreme', says former prisoner
* NSW finally equalises age of consent
* Farewell to the Dancing Man
* Editorial: GG - a vacancy that doesn't need filling
* CPSU election results inspire Members First campaigns
* Tariff cuts threaten textile workers' jobs

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

* A day on the Morris McMahon picket line
* Footscray Migrant Resource Centre axed
* Blue Ribbon lockout enters ninth week
* Marathon dispute for ETU at Smorgon Steel
* Campaign 2003 industrial action spreads
* Wool combers overwhelmed by support
* Anti-deportation alliance launched
* Threat to split WA anti-war movement
* Budget petition presented to MP
*  GLW: Top Australian political site
* `Two-state solution' impossible, says Palestinian author
* Anti-free trade agreement rally
* Telstra paves the way for final sale
* Left unity: the Scottish socialist experience

CULTURAL DISSENT

* Sydney Film Festival marks 50th year
* 1975 and the `end of reform'
* `Blowback' in Afghanistan

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