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Highlights from the latest issue: IRAQ'S OCCUPATION The US occupation is revealing that twenty-first century imperialism differs from its earlier incarnations only in that it is more brutal, more destructive, and more arrogant than any before it. http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D379 WASHINGTON'S WAR STRATEGY US defence analyst John Pike gloated about the global spread of US forces: "If you want to talk about suns never setting on Empires - the Brits had nothing compared to this." http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D380 MARXISM EXPLAINED - ALIENATION Marx developed his theory of alienation to reveal the human activity that lies behind the seemingly impersonal organisation of society. He showed not only that human action in the past created the modern world, but also that human action could shape a future world free from capitalism. http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D373 FAQ: HOW CAN WE GET RID OF SEXISM? That's obvious - all women unite! Sisterhood is powerful - or is it? http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D369 IN DEPTH: THE STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE It was the Oslo Accords that set the so-called "peace process" running - a process so disastrous that Palestine today is mired in war. http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D371 NORTH KOREA - BEHIND THE CRISIS Since October 2002 - following a period of unprecedented rapprochement between North Korea and its neighbouring foes, South Korea and Japan - the Bush government's objective has been to create a crisis on the Korean Peninsula and keep it going. http://www.sa.org.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=3Ddisplayarticle&id=3D376 Plus: The Matrix reviewed Nina Simone tribute want to check out our new revolutionary reading list? http://www.sa.org.au/texts.html time to come to a socialist alternative meeting? here's how! http://www.sa.org.au/meetus.html Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Trades Hall Box 18 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 Mon-Fri 9am-6.30 pm Sat 11am-5pm tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9662 4755 www.nibs.org.au to receive regular updates about bookshop events, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead blue-bottles. George Orwell .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]