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EGYPT: Huge government-sponsored anti-war protest

More than 1 million people marched through Cairo on March 1 in a anti-war protest sponsored by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party. Members of the party, including the minister of information, marched with the

700 Manly residents march against war

BY BENN BANASIK SYDNEY — "Peace is possible! War is not the answer!" echoed through the streets of the famous seasside suburb of Manly on March 10 as more than 700 anti-war residents joined together to show they will not support a war on the

Write On: Letters to Green Left Weekly

Moral leadership Some advocates of a US-initiated war with Iraq will admit its illegality but argue that law and morality are not the same. This claim is true but, of itself, does nothing to establish the morality of war. Furthermore, if people

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UNITED STATES: Corporate media shuns UN spying story

With media attention focused intensely on the UN Security Council debate over Iraq, the London-based Observer newspaper revealed on March 2 that the United States is apparently spying on the diplomatic delegations of Security Council nations. Despite

IRAQ: Washington's war goal isn't democracy

BY ROHAN PEARCE US President George Bush has increasingly resorted to the claim that the aim of his regime's planned invasion of Iraq is to spread "democracy" throughout the Middle East. The worth of this claim is belied by the US record of backing

Labor colludes with Howard to gag parliamentary debate

BY ALISON DELLIT Prime Minister John Howard's Liberal-National coalition government has taken a decision to commit to a war that Australians want no part of, and it has done so without even bothering to hold a parliamentary debate. In these

An open letter to Jose Ramos Horta

BY ALLEN MYERS Dear Jose, I am proud to have participated in conferences and solidarity demonstrations with East Timor from the Indonesian invasion in December 1975 until the withdrawal of Indonesian troops. Twelve years ago, when I edited

A Woman's Place is in the Struggle: Pop sociology

Women who earn more than $90,000 a year are the "most eager" of all Australian women to have children, and the least likely to expect to be childless, according to a study just released by the federal government and the Curtin University of

Howard's dishonest case for war

Howard's dishonest case for war Prime Minister John Howard's March 13 address to the National Press Club clarified one thing — the Australian people have no reason at all to support a war on Iraq. In a speech littered with emotional

PHILIPPINE: Women oppose wars in Iraq, Mindanao

MANILA — More than 3000 women, led by Women Rage (Women's Resistance to Globalisation and to End War), protested outside the US embassy here on International Women's Day, March 8. The women demanded that the Philippines government address issues of

Social forum to discuss war and globalisation

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — "In the face of a US-led war on Iraq and the looming World Trade Organisation meeting in Mexico in August, the Brisbane Social Forum wants to create an axis of hope — discussing how another world is possible", according