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Socialist Worker Monthly Review #8 • June 2003 • $2 As Labour Bows to Bush & Business Socialist Worker Monthly Review #8 • June 2003 • $2 As Labour bows to Bush & business... UNI STUDENTS KINLEITH MILL WORKERS PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SUPPORTERS WEST COAST MINERS UNIVERSITY STAFF PEACE & JUSTICE CAMPAIGNERS People stand up for peace & justice Socialist Worker Monthly Review June 2003 1 What’s on of the owners have their own public, right- wing political agendas. Who owns our news Auckland media and does it mater? Presented by Bill Palestine / Israel, rally for peace Rosenberg. Support justice and peace, based on re- Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, moval of Israeli Occupation, right of re- Grey Lynn. Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at turn for refugees, sharing Jerusalem, ces- 7:30pm. GPJA Organising Committee will sation of Jewish-only settlements in occu- be at 6:30pm, before the forum, at the pied Palestine. Unite Office, Trades Hall. Anyone willing WHO SAYS? Aotea Square (Queen St, Auckland), to help is welcome. 2pm, Saturday June 7. Organised by Pal- “There was no doubt in my mind as estine Human Rights Committee. Phone I went through the intelligence... David Wakim 520 0201. the evidencec was overwhelming Fourth of July that they had continued to develop Aceh—the New East Timor? The Fourth of July is US Independ- these programmes.” The political background, the human ence Day. This year it will be a global Colin Powell, US secretary of state. rights crisis and how New Zealand can day of protest against the US occupa- help. Speakers include Margaret Taylor tion of Afghanistan and Iraq and their “In intelligence there is one (Amnesty International), Maire military threats against Iran, Syria and unpardonable sin – cooking Leadbeater (Indonesia Human Rights Cuba. So far, both Wellington and intelligence to the recipe of high Committee), Keith Locke (Green Party Christchurch are planning to take part. policy. There is ample indication foreign affairs spokesperson). ■ Peace Action Wellington will protest this has been done with respect to Saint Columba Centre 40 Vermont St, outside the US ambassador’s residence Iraq.” Ponsonby (opposite the Mosque. Entrance in Woburn Rd, Lower Hutt, on the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for and parking at rear of building). Monday evening of July 4 (time to be con- Sanity, a group said to be made up of CIA June 16 at 7:30pm. Organised by Pax firmed). The theme of the demonstra- agents, in letter to George Bush on May 1. Christi and Indonesia Human Rights Com- tion is: Whose independence? Phone mittee. E-mail [email protected] or write 382 8129, e-mail “We’re still on the road to peace. to box 68-419 Auckland. [email protected] It’s just going to be a bumpy road.” ■ Peace Action Network Otautahi will George Bush on recent terrorist attacks. Who owns New Zealand’s news media. protest outside the US Airforce base at Can we afford to let them own our news? Christchurch Airport/Harewood. Meet by “What does it say to you that half Global Peace & Justice Auckland the totem poll at 4:30pm. Phone 981 2 of all 15 year olds in South Africa (GPJA) Public Forum. Most of our news 825, e-mail and Zimbabwe could lose their media are owned by three – shortly to be [email protected], lives to AIDS? What does it say to four – transnational media empires. Most webpage: http://peaceaction.net.nz/ you that 11 million children, roughly, die every year from preventable diseases? What does it say to you that of the 4 million ATCH ... IRAQ OCCUPATION WATCH ... IR babies who die within their first month, 98 percent are from poor countries? What do those statistics Thousands died... lost the capacity to deal with even com- tell you about the world?” An independent organisation, Iraq mon problems.” Journalist Bill Moyers questioning Body Count, has put the number of dead He condemned the coalition forces, billionaire Bill Gates from the US bombing and invasion at saying, “They haven't even bothered to between 4,065 and 5,223 civilians. provide hospitals with what they need “It really is a failure of capitalism.” The figure comes from meticulous to keep functioning.” Bill Gates’ response to Moyers. checks of casualty reports. The actual number of dead is likely to be far greater The real use of WMDs as Iraq Body Count use a conservative Dust from depleted uranium muni- “Where did this idea come from method of counting the casualties. tions means civilians will be dying for that everybody deserves free Their single largest entry – between many years to come. education? Free medical care? Free 1,482 and 2,009 dead – comes from the 19 The US and Britain dropped up to whatever? It comes from Russia. It Baghdad hospitals most likely to receive 2,000 tons of depleted uranium on Iraq. comes straight out of the pit of the dead and injured in the capital, accord- This is three times the amount used in hell.” ing to the Red Crescent. This was during the first Gulf War. Debbie Rindle, US Republican Party the period 19 March to 9 April. This toxic heavy metal is used in representative in Texas. shells and missiles and can contaminate ...more children will water and food supplies with radioac- “My film is about an Afghan The US and Britain have left a deadly tivity for years. woman who has no power but legacy in Iraq. Cluster bombs are still This death and destruction in Iraq who wants to be a president one maiming and killing children. was necessary, we were told, because day. I don’t want to be a president The US has still not reconnected the Saddam had weapons of mass destruc- myself if the best-known president water, sewerage and electricity supplies tion (WMDs). in the world is George Bush.” it bombed during the war, which is en- But now US and British officials have Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf dangering the health of thousands of admitted that evidence of this may after winning an award for the film Five in families. never be found. the Afternoon at the Cannes film festival. The charity UNICEF brings in 67 This was the last desperate excuse tankers of water via Kuwait every day. Bush and Blair came up with to justify These service less than 10 percent of their war. Iraq's population. Some 40 percent of They claimed Saddam could launch Basra in southern Iraq still have no water. chemical or biological attack in 45 min- Kenny Gluck of Medecins Sans utes. Now Britain’s foreign secretary Frontieres says, “The health system is in Jack Straw says it’s “not crucially impor- such disarray that healthcare staff have tant” to find any of the alleged WMDs. 2 Socialistd Worker Monthly Review June 2003 Editorial Socialist Worker Monthly Review War, corporate http://au.geocities.com/swo_nz rule & resistance Editorial 3 Two months after the end of the war in Iraq, Helen Clark’s News Review 4 refusal to publicly support the US can increasingly be seen for what it was – a blip. Homophobia Labour’s reservations were always based on fears that war Student protests could stoke tensions between the US and Europe and under- Genetic Engineering mine multilateral free trade talks in the World Trade Organi- sation (WTO). Now that US bullying and deal-making has won European FEATURE: WORKERS STAND backing for their colonial occupation of Iraq, Labour’s swing- UP TO CORPORATE POWER ○○○○○○○○ ing back firmly into the US camp. ○○○○○○○○○○○○ Helen Clark’s apologies to George Bush were re-played for weeks. Now Labour is stepping up support for Bush’s “war on Uni staff, nurses, miners 6 terrorism”. Kinleith workers 7 Last month, New Zealand’s military contribution was boosted with the departure of an air force Orion. A Hercules aircraft has been committed, to help in ferrying US forces. FEATURE: ASIA-PACIFIC Further New Zealand troops are promised, including a SELF-DETERMINATION ○○○○○○○○ possible contingent to boost the occupation force in Iraq. ○○○○○○○○○○○○ Foreign minister Phil Goff has even offered to send troops into Palestinian areas to police Bush’s “road map”. Bougainville 8 Meanwhile, Labour has carefully avoided condemning Aceh 10 Indonesia, America’s Asian ally in the “war on terrorism”, for their latest onslaught to suppress self-determination in Aceh. In swinging back in behind Bush, Labour is bowing to FEATURE: PEACE & JUSTICE pressure from business at home. IN THE MIDDLE EAST ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ A flick through any issue of the National Business Review shows that New Zealand’s biggest corporations remain Palestine 12 obsessed about a free trade deal with America. They also want US muscle to impose corporate globalisa- Reordering the Middle East 13 tion for their mutual benefit. Islam and the left 15 This is why Labour has signed up to America’s WTO case to Terrorism 16 force open European markets to genetically engineered food. The top leaders of the Council of Trade Unions scarcely lifted a finger against the war in Iraq. They remain wedded to COLUMNS ○○○○○○○○ “partnership” with Labour and business. ○○○○○○○○○○○○ But increasingly – like an iceberg, 90 percent invisible below the surface – ordinary people are gearing up to fight. Industrial Action 20 They join rising resistance around the globe. ‘What can I do in my union?’ All that Labour has to offer is a world of war and corporate rule. But out of this resistance is emerging a new left who LEFT ALTERNATIVES ○○○○○○○○ demand an alternative. ○○○○○○○○○○○○ National Peace Workshops, British elections 17 Cover photos: Canterbuty students protest against the Budget, 14 May; Kinleith workers picket CHH AGM, 30 April; Banner drop at Auckland’s “Round the Bays”, 16 March; Wellington protest at Indonesian Embassy, 21 May; Coal miners strike, Letters 18 7 May; Uni staff unionists plan national bargaining campaign, 12-13 March.
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