Around 35 high-school students, mainly from one high school, met outside a public library in Causarina and went on a vibrant, loud and fast paced march to the only university in Darwin chanting "Howard, Tony, USA — how many kids did you kill
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MARTIN ILTIS
LONDON On March 22, up to 500,000 people demonstrated in central
London against the US-British-Australian invasion of Iraq. Among those
hundreds of thousands of concerned people were a vocal contingent of Australians
BY ALISON DELLIT
A Greens proposal to hold a Senate inquiry examining the legality of the Iraq war and looking into ways to ensure wars cannot be embarked upon without parliamentary approval was defeated in the Senate on March 27.
The commitment
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — To enormous applause, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger made an impassioned call for people to support the Sydney high-school student anti-war protesters who have been pilloried by the corporate media.
Addressing 1000
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — Despite Newcastle police calling high school principals and warning them of violent protest, the Newcastle March 26 student strike against the war attracted over 350 students, mostly from high school.
Students
ROME — As well as the Colosseum, pizza and designer fashions, Italy is increasingly noticed for its massive demonstrations against war and neoliberal globalisation. On February 15, 2.5 million people mobilised in Rome against the war on Iraq. On
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — At lunchtime on March 25, 400 workers walked off the job to oppose the war on Iraq. They gathered outside Geelong Trades Hall to hear speakers from many unions condemn the US-led slaughter.
Andrea Maksimovic from the
BY BRAVE BEAR
ONTARIO — The US-led invasion of Iraq has raised huge questions and created deep confusion within both the population and the political and economic elite in Canada. The government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien has repeatedly
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What should Australia's
huge anti-war movement be doing now that the war against Iraq has begun?
To get the views of the Socialist Alliance, Australia's main left organisation,
Green Left Weekly's NORM DIXON interviewed its three national
BY ALISON DELLIT& ANTHONY BENBOW
"The government's decision to commit [Australian troops to the US-led invasion of Iraq] was wrong but we have got to be realistic about this. They are there and what we have got to hope for in the current
BY
JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE The South Australian parliament has legislated to ban
the construction of a national radioactive waste dump in the state. The
legislation, passed by the upper house in a special sitting to debate the
bill on March
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