BY
GRANT COLEMAN
On March 5, high school, campus and TAFE students across Australia
will act together with US students in refusing to attend classes. We will
be calling for books not bombs and demanding that Australian troops be
brought
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BY
ZOE KENNY
MELBOURNE Maryan al-Talebi is a seemingly average 17-year-old high
school student living in Footscray. She has a part-time job and is undertaking
her final year of the Victorian Certificate of Education. But behind al-Talebis
BY
ALEX CHIS
SAN FRANCISCO Sunday February 16 was the largest anti-war
protest in this city's history, with the march organisers estimating that
250,000 people took part. Even the police department said about 200,000
marched double that
BY
GERALD LENOIR
PARIS Despite intense pressure from the US government, French President
Jacques Chirac continues to maintain that France will veto a United Nations
Security Council resolution authorising a war in Iraq. On February 15,
I
BY
PAT BREWER
Is the Democratic Socialist Party a revolutionary feminist party?
Not really, according to Alison Thorne, a leading member of the Freedom
Socialist Party (FSP). The DSP, Thorne argued in her contribution on the
future of the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad", an unnamed Pentagon official told the US news network CBS on January 24."You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of you at division headquarters have been
BY
PHIL HEARSE
According to Labour MPs, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has only
a few weeks to turn around the dreadful political mess in which his support
for US President George Bush's looming attack on Iraq has landed him. Blair
By Ahmed Ben Bella, George Galloway & John Rees
At least 13 Egyptian activists against the war on Iraq have been arrested. Ten remain in custody; 11 of the 13 arrested have been tortured.
We have received a plea for solidarity from a broad range
On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the
streets of inner-city Sydney in a confident assertion of all people's right
to choose and live their sexual orientation, and to mark the political
struggles that have won
International Women's Day protests, along with the March 5 international
student strike, are shaping up to be the next globally coordinated actions
against war on Iraq. The strike and IWD events are scheduled for the first
week of March
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Unions Tasmania Council, the peak union body in the state, issued a statement from its meeting on February 13 opposing a unilateral US war on Iraq.
However, the statement supports UN calls on Iraq to "surrender
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government of Premier Jim Bacon decided on February 3 to introduce new laws to allow the $30 million Meander Dam project to go ahead. Previously, the Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal
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