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Iraqi refugee opposes war

BY DONNA BURNS MELBOURNE — Thirty people attended a February 10 public forum in Footscray on the US drive to war against Iraq. The keynote speaker was Iraqi refugee Surma Hamid. Speaking on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi

Almost 1 million Australians march against war

BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Kicking off a weekend of massive international protest against war on Iraq, nearly one in 50 Australians attended an anti-war protests on February 14-16. The weekend began with the largest peace demonstration in

Protesters take over the streets of Lismore

BY TOM FLANAGAN LISMORE — In what many participants described as the biggest political event in this town's history, 5000 people — about a ninth of the town's total population — overflowed Spinks Park to say no to any war on Iraq. Lisa

WORLD: Largest coordinated anti-war protest in history

BY NORM DIXON People throughout the world have thronged to anti-war demonstrations on February 14-16 in numbers that even protest organisers thought unimaginable. As Green Left Weekly went to press, it appears, based on conservative

IRAQ: Washington invents al Qaeda 'link' with Hussein

BY ROHAN PEARCE US Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he repeated the threadbare claims that Iraq has somehow hidden a

GERMANY: 30,000 confront Rumsfeld

BY NORMAN BREWER More than 30,000 people mobilised on February 8 outside NATO security conference attended by US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and European defence and security officials. More than 3500 police closed large sections of downtown

Public service 'reform' to cost thousands of jobs

BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY BRISBANE — In 2002, the Queensland treasury announced plans to strip state government departments of corporate support staff and place them in five departments. These departments would then sell corporate support services back

Wollongong high schools greeted by 'No War Mobile'

BY GRANT COLEMAN WOLLONGONG — Six of the Illawarra's 19 high schools have been introduced to the No War Mobile as student anti-war activists continue to build the March 5 Books Not Bombs student strike. The increasingly famous box-trailer, 2.5

The 'movement of the 6 billion'

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

20,000 rally in Perth

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

Strike on March 5 to bring the troops home

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

Adelaide's largest ever anti-war demo

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.