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Inside front cover: Don't attack Iraq: Demonstrate 15 Feb 2003 – www.stopwar.org.uk

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Editorial: Battle stations

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It's a question of 'weeks not months', warns the warmonger in the White House.

Andrew Stone: News Review: Anti-War Demonstration: A Day to Change the World

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In a time when politicians and advertisers have devalued the word 'historic' to another piece of hyperbole, 15 February looks set to reclaim it with full force.

News Review: Between the Lines: Tories campaign for tax handouts – New Labour Can't Count – Crime Worst in Vatican – Adverts Against Junk Email

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News Review: Higher Education: A Mean Test for Students

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'We will not introduce "top-up" fees and have legislated to prevent them.' So promised Labour's 2001 election manifesto.

Unjum Mirza: News Review: Tube: Problems Underground

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Years of underfunding combined with New Labour's obsession with privatisation are to blame for the near disaster when a London Underground train derailed at Chancery Lane last month.

Martin Empson: Martin's Web: The Dark Side of the Net

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If you have watched the television or read some of the tabloids over the last few weeks, you could be forgiven for thinking that the web has become the realm of the child pornographer and the paedophile.

The Walrus: The Real Slim Shady

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What have the rail, power and pensions industries got in common? This would be funny if it wasn't such a disaster.

Mike Haynes: Stop the war: Facing Down the Evil Empire

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The fight against war must also be linked with the fight against the system that breeds it.

Peter Morgan: Stop the war: 'A Party I am Beginning to Despise'

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Labour Party activists talk about their anger at Blair's drive to war.

Andrew Stone: Stop the war: Reasons to be Fearful

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Bush and Blair are desperate to justify war on Iraq. Andrew Stone demolishes their lies one by one.

Mike Davis: Bush's Ultimate Thule?

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US imperialism has received a cold reception in Greenland.

Chris Bambery: Capital and Conquest

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Chris Bambery recalls the brutal history of the British empire.

Sabby Sagall: Oil and the Intifada

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An attack on Iraq will lead to more instability in the Middle East. The US calculate that if they lose Saudi Arabia, they must control Iraq.

Johnny Connolly: Let My Brothers Go

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Three Irish Republicans are facing a show trial in Colombia.

Chris Harman: Jams Today, Jams Tomorrow

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London's congestion charge will do little to solve its transport problems.

Joseph Choonara: India: 'Fighting for Tomorrow' (George Gomez)

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George Gomez has been a Trotskyist since 1948. He recently attended the Asian Social Forum at Hyderabad and spoke to Joseph Choonara about his life.

Mike Gonzalez: Arts Review: Cultural currents: New York, New York

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The city that has become an icon offers different views on life.

Sue Jones: Arts Review: Films: A Triangle of Love and Despair (Stephen Daldry: "The Hours")

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'The Hours' was never going to be a low-key production.

Bob Light: Arts Review: Films: The Trotters Trading Company (Alex Cox: "Revengers Tragedy")

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If your idea of a good night out is a movie based on a 400 year old play in blank verse, set in an imaginary and dystopian Liverpool with a cast that includes Eddie Izzard, Cherie Booth's dad and Craig who won Big Brother, all played out to the music of Chumbawamba, then get your coat now. 'Revengers Tragedy' is what you've been waiting for.

Shaun Doherty: Arts Review: Films: Airing the Dirty Washing in Public (Peter Mullen: "The Magdalene Sisters")

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Named after Mary Magdalene, the penitent 'sinner' of the Gospels, the Magdalene laundries were closed institutions for 'fallen' women in Ireland. They were run by the misnamed 'Sisters of Mercy' on behalf of the Catholic hierarchy. More than 30,000 Irish women were incarcerated indefinitely in these institutions, and it is almost impossible to believe that the last one was closed as recently as 1996.

Ian Stone: Arts Review: Films: When an Oasis Becomes a Blur (John Dower: "Live Forever")

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'Live Forever' documents, in the words of writer and director John Dower, 'the rise and fall of one of the most visible movements in [contemporary] British music, Britpop', largely through interviews with some of the principal participants in the 'movement'--Damon Albarn of Blur, Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp.

Ian Crosson: Arts Review: Theatre: No Honour Among Thieves (Bertolt Brecht: "The Threepenny Opera", National Theatre, London)

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This production brilliantly brings to life one of Bertolt Brecht's earliest plays. 'The Threepenny Opera' was first written by Brecht, with music by Kurt Weill, in 1928 in Berlin.

Kevin Best: Arts Review: Theatre: The Media Moguls (Adriano Shaplin: "Victory at the Dirt Palace", Riverside Studios, London)

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A terrorist attack has just occurred in the US, and father and daughter are live on air as rival network newsreaders. At stake are their reputations and careers--all is dependent on the television rating figures. This is merely the public face of a deep and bitter private rift that has long estranged the pair, and provided material for the tabloid newspapers.

Talat Ahmed: Arts Review: Theatre: The Shining Star (Salman Rushdie: "Midnight's Children", Barbican, London)

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'Midnight's Children' is the novel that brought international acclaim to Salman Rushdie 20 years ago. Its literary style, playful use of language and multilayered storyline introduced magical realism to a new audience.

Tom Whittaker: Arts Review: Music: Massive Counter-Attack (Various: "Peace Not War" (CD))

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Fusing art and politics has never been so easy. The growing global anti-war movement means that great anthems of hope and inspiration, which celebrate the joy of mass resistance, can be recorded.

Jane Shallice: Books Review: Bright Lights, Big Cities (Mike Davis: "Dead Cities")

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Mike Davis brings to each subject a completely idiosyncratic vision, with a huge passion to tell stories, explain and reveal. Dead Cities is a brilliant kaleidoscope of essays.

Solomon Hughes: Books Review: Profits on the Line (Christian Wolmar: "Down the Tube")

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Christian Wolmar is a bit of a Kiley fan--not the former soap actress turned pop star, but the former CIA agent turned transport supremo. Wolmar and co, caught between dislike of the PPP and distrust of the unions, think the issue must be one of 'bad management', and so look to the good manager--Kiley--as a hero.

Martin Smith: Books Review: Art for Our Sake (Andrew Hemingway: "Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926 -1956")

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Andrew Hemingway's fascinating and meticulously well researched new book takes you back to that period when the left was a major influence on American culture.

Chanie Rosenberg: Books Review: A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (Alan Gibbons: "Caught in the Crossfire")

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'Caught in the Crossfire' is a novel for all ages but mainly for children and examines the organisation of a BNP branch (called the Patriotic League in the book) in a northern town like Oldham, its attitude to the Muslim community, the repercussions thereof and the riots that ensued.

Andy Strouthous: Books Review: No Prize for Booker (Brian Kelly: "Race, Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921")

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This book is a welcome addition to US labour history at a time when some labour historians find psychological explanations of racism fashionable. The struggle to unionise the Alabama coalfields from 1908- 1921 provides an effective rebuttal of the theory that white workers benefit from racism.

Nicolai Gentchev: Books Review: Money for Something (David Osler: "Labour Party Plc")

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'Labour Party Plc' tracks the party's relationship with business from the early steps made by Neil Kinnock, to John Smith's more overt flirting, to the love that dared speak its name under Tony Blair.

Lawrence Wong: Books Review: Generation Gains (Andrew J Nathan and Bruce Gilley (eds.): "China's New Rulers")

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In November 2002, the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elected China's new 'fourth generation' of leaders. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin represented the first, second, and third generations of China's leaders respectively.

Sam Ashman: Books Review: The Clash of Globalisations (Stephen Gill: "Power and Resistance in the New World Order")

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This is a collection of articles by an academic based in Canada who has written about both neoliberalism and the anti- capitalist movement's response. Rewriting Samuel Huntingdon, Gill refers to this battle as the 'clash of globalisations', and it is this clash which will shape the future of the 21st century.

Tom Wall: Books Review: Justice on Ice (TC Campbell and R McKay: "The Wilderness Years")

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'The Wilderness Years', the follow-up to Campbell's last book 'Indictment: Trial by Fire' (also co-written by Reg McKay), traces his struggle for justice through various different prisons, solitary confinement, hunger strikes, violent beatings and his eventual release last year, pending an appeal.

Richard McEwan: Books Review: The Leap Backwards (David L Hoffman (ed.): "Stalinism")

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The history of the revolution in Russia in 1917 and its ultimate defeat provide important lessons for those seeking a socialist alternative to capitalism.This textbook, intended for students, is a collection of 12 essays from leading international Russian historians. The aim is to provide different interpretations for the rise of Stalin.

Colin Wilson: Letters: Sight and Sounds

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After having just seen, and very much enjoyed, 'Gangs of New York', there are a number of things I'd like to add to Mike Davis's article ('Bloody Streets of New York', January SR).

Paul Sillett: Letters: Sight and Sounds

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Joe Strummer's recent untimely death robs us of a true rebel, as John Rees explained (January SR).

Hugh Lowe: Letters: Occupational Hazard

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The article 'From final salary to final straw' (January SR) needs some additions, mainly because it does not examine the fundamental flaws of privatised pensions adequately--particularly final salary occupational pensions.

Pat Stack: Stack on the back: Talking Rap

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Blaming hip-hop won't tackle gun crime.