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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance. Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three
REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX You are G8, We are 6 BillionBy Jonathon NealeVision Paperbacks, 2002262 pages, $27.95 In the last year, books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Tariq Ali have been prominent in the bestsellers lists. You can
BY KYLIE MOON As Prime Minister John Howard buddies up for the media with his “close personal friend” US President George Bush, Australian students are preparing some US-Australian solidarity of our own. But we aim to prevent war, not to
Wollongong council votes against war BY GRANT COLEMAN WOLLONGONG — Following the 5000-strong anti-war rally on February 8, the local council voted to reaffirm Wollongong as a "city of peace", opposing war on Iraq and supporting the return of
BY EMMA MURPHY ADELAIDE — The massive turn-out here for the February 16 anti-war march astounded everybody. The organisers of the rally, the NO WAR coalition, estimate that 100,000 people took part. Even the police reckon 70,000 were there.
BY PATRICK BOND “Africa didn't really shine here”, South Africa's finance minister Trevor Manuel told a press conference in snowy Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum in late January. “There is a complete dearth of panels on
On top of the hundreds of thousands mobilising in Australia's main cities, many thousands rallied in cities and towns across Australia. From Cairns, Susan Austin reports that 2000 people gathered for a peace picnic. A 500-strong contingent
BY PETER KRBAVAC CANBERRA — Canberrans turned out in their thousands on February 15 to show their opposition to US President George Bush's war. Organisers estimate the crowd at more than 15,000 — a size not seen at a protest in Canberra
BY DOUG LORIMER As the United States makes final preparations to launch its military conquest of Iraq, the long-simmering diplomatic dispute over the future of Iraq between Washington and Paris broke into the open. On February 9, German officials
BY ALISON THORNE The Socialist Alliance sought to identify areas of broad agreement in order to unite socialists from eight diverse socialist organisations, as well as many individual activists, around limited but shared goals. The
BY ROHAN PEARCE In his February 5 speech to the United Nations Security Council, US Secretary of State Colin Powell called attention to the "fine paper that United Kingdom distributed yesterday, which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception
BY CHRISTANO KERRILLA "Alert, alert. For the sword of Bolivar is ready to swing!" — this a popular chant of the supporters of Venezuela's pro-poor president Hugo Chavez Frias. This cry is symbolic of the process of radicalisation taking place