Alison Dellit
About 8 million people across Spain rallied on March 12, to protest against political violence. The protests were very broad — Popular Party ministers joining anti-war activists and others. The largest protest was in Barcelona,
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Black 47 opens New York Town with a fierce, loping tribute to the St. Patrick's Battalion (the San Patricios), a band of Irish-American
Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney
On March 11, 35 workers attended the first meeting of the Construction Workers' Compensation Support Group. An initiative of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the meeting was organised by Wayne
Maria Voukelatos
US Senator John Kerry, now the sole Democratic Party candidate in this November's US presidential election, has called for an expansion of the US Army by an extra 40,000 "active service" troops. Kerry's call reflects a growing
A dozen protesters gathered at the Magistrate's Court in Melbourne on March 11 in support of Women for Peace activist Reta Kaur. She has been charged with $9000 in criminal damages for writing slogans against the Iraq war outside the US consulate
Rohan Pearce
"Somewhere down the line, we became an occupation force in [Iraqi] eyes. We don't feel like heroes any more... We are outnumbered. We are exhausted. We are in over our heads." — a website posting by Isaac Kindblade, a US Army private
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Schools funding policy condemned
Prime Minister John Howard's March 11 announcement of a new federal funding policy for schools was condemned by Greens Senator Kerry Nettle.
"Today's announcement decreases the public schools sector share of
Seventy per cent of Iraqi workers — about 10 million people — are unemployed. Many are now organising in the Unemployed Union of Iraq. In February, the UUI appointed Jalal Mohamad its official representative in Australia. Socialist Alliance
Norman Brewer, Sydney
Aboriginal activists from the Redfern Block have called on "Aboriginal communities and their supporters to unite and support the demand for a national royal commission to examine police mistreatment of Aboriginal youth" by
Hassan Shamsaei,some, I'm told, call you"The Blind Man of Baxter."You've refused food since mid-Novemberbut say you are not on a hunger strike.You have not sought publicity.Are you blind to the fear of death?Is this what Australia has done to you?You
@intro2 = There is plenty of evidence to contradict the government's claim that it did not know that Iraq possessed no weapons' of mass destruction.
The government said:Intelligence said:
PM John Howard, September 9, 2002, 7.30 Report
Ashwin Desai & Richard Pithouse, Durban
In the 10th year of South African democracy, we are forced to confront a number of sobering facts. For the purposes of this short article we'd like to highlight just five.
The first is that the ANC has
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