BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — The Socialist Alliance in the ACT has doubled its financial membership over the past month, a result of intense involvement in the anti-war movement. The alliance has also collected thousands of signatures on a
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BY KAMALA EMANUEL
BURNIE — Student anti-war activist Matt Hardy completed a week-long hunger strike against war on Iraq on April 2. Supported by a network of friends and family, Hardy spent the week outside the Kmart Plaza on one of the main
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in Australia for three years,
are being taken from their houses in the early hours of the morning and
put into detention because the immigration department argues that they
are not
BY ADAM LEEMAN
SYDNEY — "The company is expecting us to give up, but the longer we are out here the stronger we get", a striking worker at picket line outside the Morris McMahon can manufacturing plant told Green Left Weekly.
Sixty-five workers
BY ALISON DELLIT
Federal Labor leader Simon Crean has signalled yet another retreat on Labor's "anti-war" position. Speaking to the ABC's AM program on April 11, Crean said, "If we are part of the occupying force, the ability to bring [the troops]
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Hundreds of refugee-rights campaigners will converge on Baxter detention centre from all over Australia on the Easter weekend to focus the national spotlight on the horrors of mandatory detention.
There is disconetent among local
Labor Council roasted
The right-wing controlled NSW Labor Council has received a barrage of letters condemning their attack on the Books Not Bombs student anti-war protests. They are buried in the back of the letters page of the Workers Online web
BY DOUG LORIMER
Emboldened by the US military's apparent quick defeat of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, the war hawks in and around the administration of US President George Bush are setting their sights on "regime change" in Syria and Iran.
OAKLAND, California — More than 10,000 people marched through downtown Oakland on April 6 to protest against the US invasion of Iraq. Many participated in contingents of people of colour, labour and students. At the end of the march, singer
JOHANNESBURG — On April 5, more than 12,000 people marched behind about 15 "human shields", who have recently returned from Iraq, to oppose the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protest, organised by the Anti-War Coalition (AWC), marched through the
BY
JOHN PILGER
LONDON, April 10 A BBC television producer, moments before he was
wounded by a US fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with friendly fire,
spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head
so
BY JIM
GREEN
ADELAIDE About 100 people attended a public debate on April 6 concerning
the federal government's plan to build a national radioactive waste dump
near Woomera, in northern South Australia.
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