BY DOUG LORIMER
Despite the March 1 vote by Turkey's parliament against allowing 62,000 US troops to be deployed in Turkey, the Pentagon has pushed ahead with preparations to use bases in eastern Turkey as part of its planned invasion of Iraq.
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BY JOHN PERCY
During the last few years, visits to the Green Left Weekly web page have been steadily rising, but they've taken a dramatic leap in the last month, probably reflecting the rising anti-war consciousness and activity.
In April 2001,
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
"Now how many people must get killed? For oil families' pockets to get filled?", ask the Beastie Boys in the new anti-war song "In a World Gone Mad". The song was released on March 11 on the group's web site
BY NORM DIXON
Just a month after more than 12 million people across the planet took part in the largest anti-war protest history in an attempt to prevent the United States' war machine decimating the people of Iraq, millions of people throughout
BY MICHAEL ARNOLD
On February 1, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra significantly upped the stakes in the war on drug users, resolving to make Thailand "drug free" within three months.
Given the level of drug use and distribution in
BY
IGGY KIM
Dita Sari, head of the Indonesian National Front for Workers' Struggle,
was in Baghdad on March 14-18 as part of high-profile Asian peace mission
to Iraq. Mission members visited hospitals, orphanages and schools. They
met with
BY LAURIE
SAUNDERS
MELBOURNE Socialist Alliance candidates recorded respectable results
in the Maribyrnong and Brimbank local council elections on March 15.
Maurice Sibelle scored 6.1% of the vote in McKay, a ward of the Brimbank
council
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The Philippines government has threatened to label the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) a "terrorist" group. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on March 10 stated that "actions, including the sabotage of [electricity]
BY LISA MACDONALD
With the recent rise of the Greens as a real force in electoral politics, the question is posed: why is the Socialist Alliance bothering to contest elections. The answer is simple.
The Socialist Alliance strongly supports the
BY ROHAN GAISWINKLER
HOBART — More than one thousand people protested against war on March 15, in a protest organised at less than a week's notice in response to the escalation of US plans for war.
The rally, called by the Peace Coalition,
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It is a Hollywood fairytale come true. Antwone Fisher was a security guard at Sony
BY OSCAR
JUKES & RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN Cries of "UN, USA no war, no way! woke up the usually
sleepy Smith Street Mall as 2500 people took to the streets on March 15.
Larrakia activist June Mills opened the rally saying: "No more
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