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A woman's place is in the struggle: US right to choose hangs by a thread

January 22, 2003, marked 30 years since the historic Roe vs Wade decision that gave women in the US access to legal abortions. However, under the presidency of George Bush, that ruling seems increasingly precarious. In addition to an anti-choice

15,000 take to streets of Newcastle

BY KATHY NEWNAM NEWCASTLE — Police estimated that 15,000 people took to the city's streets on February 15 to oppose a war against Iraq. Many of those participating commented to Green Left Weekly sellers that it was the first time they had

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

Wollongong International Women's Day: No War on Iraq

BY GRANT COLEMAN WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration. International Women's Day Collective member and

Loose cannons

But as they say, talk's cheap "Self evidently America is the most powerful country in the world, probably the most powerful country mankind has seen. But, I mean, [Bush] spends a lot of time talking about humanitarian things, about assistance to

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

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

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

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

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