Among the campaigning plans and activities projected at the conference were:
- Building large, vibrant anti-war and pro-refugee demonstrations on May 1 in every major city around Australia.
- Support for the second Asia-Pacific Internationakl Solidarity conference to be held in Sydney from March 29-April 1 and support for Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP).
- Strengthening the Socialist Alliance, and supporting the alliance's tour of Farooq Tariq of the Labour Party Pakistan in April.
- Campaigning for a royal commission into the treatment of refugee and strengthened support for refugee rights groups.
- Helping to build "women against war and racism" demonstrations on International Women's Day.
- Continuing to build the movement against the US-led war on the Third World.
- Supporting militant unions against any attack by the Howard government.
- Resisting attacks on civil liberties.
- Organising refugee rights groups and anti-war action committees on university campuses.
From Green Left Weekly, January 16, 2002.
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