Protesters declare: `Stop Bush! Troops out of Iraq!' - Green Left Weekly #559 October 29, 2003

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Green Left Weekly,
Australia's socialist newspaper
Issue #559 October 29, 2003

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

Featured this week: Protesters declare: 'Stop Bush! Troops out of Iraq!'
Strange things happened in Canberra during the US President George
Bush's October 23 visit: a hospital ward was cleared in anticipation of
a presidential emergency; bus stops and main roads were closed;
postboxes was welded shut; hundreds of cops were present; snipers were
deployed; F-16s flew overhead. Despite the intimidating atmosphere,
thousands protesters gathered to oppose the US occupation of Iraq.
Around Australia on October 22-23, more than 10,000 people protested.

COVER STORY
Protesters declare: 'Iraq will be your Vietnam'
The Bush protests and rebuilding the anti-war movement
Greens break silence in the chamber
5000 demand 'Bush out, troops out!'
Passionate protest in Melbourne
Bush opposed across Australia
Editorial: The official opposition fails again

FEATURES
BOLIVIA: Peasant leaders threaten new revolt
The movement against the Vietnam War - its lessons for today (part 2)

INTERNATIONAL NEWS
CANADA: Tories ousted in Ontario
IRAQ: First US soldiers go AWOL
UNITED STATES: Public support for Iraq occupation crumbling
UNITED STATES: 120,000 demand `Troops out!'
BRITAIN: Labour expels anti-war MP
INDONESIA: Protesters condemn `terrorist' Bush
BOLIVIA: An anti-neoliberal insurrection
VENEZUELA: Chavez government promotes transformation
VENEZUELA: `Megarecall' may backfire on opposition
PALESTINE: PNA: US encouraging `slaughter'
UNITED STATES: University targets anti-war activists

ISSUES
AMWU activists defy red scare campaign
`Make love not war'
Jim Cairns and the dilemma of the Labor left
What's behind Howard's drive for an FTA with China
The bell tolls for us
A Woman's Place is in the Struggle: Commercial reality check

AUSTRALIAN NEWS
Newcastle demands rail line stay open
Council votes to support Afghan refugees
CFMEU imposes work ban on Sunshine pool
Defend Medicare rally
Unionists rally for manslaughter laws
Philippines union leader well-received
Families department workers demand staff
Cross cross-dressers rally
Second anniversary of Siev-X drownings marked
Carr fuels anti-Arab racism
`Don't be Bushwhacked!'
Jewish group rejects campaign against Hanan Ashrawi

CULTURAL DISSENT
Sherman Austin: `They don't have the capacity to silence us all!'
David Rovics: politically sharp and beautiful poetry
Flower power in Toowoomba
Victorian Trade Union Choir's new CD
Free tickets for Brisbane readers

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