Aspirant for title lives in White House
"Iraq has no emperor to lend authority and cover for an American regent." — Retired US Army general Wesley Clark, commenting on the plans for a US military regime in post-war Iraq, Washington Post, March
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BY NORM DIXON
Those in the US, British and Australian governments and their mainstream media toadies who hoped the anti-war movement in the US and around the world would collapse following the launch of Washington's barbaric blitzkrieg against Iraq
BY DOUG LORIMER
While presenting its invasion of Iraq as having the broad international support, Washington has waged a concerted diplomatic campaign to block the convening of an emergency session of the 191 member countries of the UN General
The anti-war movement in Australia — which is one of the aggressor countries in the US-led invasion of Iraq — has a moral duty to escalate its campaign now, before more innocent Iraqi lives are sacrificed in this war. That needs no argument.
BY DAVE
ANDREWS
FREMANTLE As the quadrennial elections for all full-time position
in the Maritime Union of Australia looms, a serious challenge to the incumbents
has emerged from the ranks of the union.
The MUA Rank and File team is
A lack of skepticism toward official US sources has led prominent US corporate news networks into making embarrassing errors in their coverage of the US invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to US claims that proof had been found that Iraq
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The racist hysteria and red-baiting by the pro-war media were to be expected after the police aggression during Sydney's Books Not Bombs protest on March 26. The following resolution, however, adopted on March 27 without a
[The following statement was issued on March 27 by the Sydney Books Not Bombs anti-war group.]
The Books Not Bombs student activists, who faced severe police violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, need your help. They have appealed for support for
JOHANNESBURG On
March 23, 1000 anti-war campaigners gathered near Wanderers Stadium, the
venue for the one-day cricket World Cup final between Australia and India.
The anti-war protesters condemned the Australian government's participation
BY OSCAR JUKES
DARWIN — Two-hundred people attended a March 23 public forum to discuss the federal government's plans to deport 84 East Timorese refugees living in the Northern Territory.
Organised by the East Timor Action Network, the forum
By John Percy
Visits to Green Left Weekly's web site continue to surge. In March, individual visits are now more than 70% above the level in February and still rising. In the third week of March, there were 7825 visits per day (with 36,470 hits and
Parents for Peace
I am writing as a parent who attended the student peace march on March 26th in Sydney.
Upon arriving at Town Hall I was horrified by the overbearing police presence which included sniffer dogs, lines of riot police and dozens of
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