BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — The growth of anti-war sentiment in the Australian Capital Territory was clear at the November 3 rally in Garema Place to oppose a US invasion of Iraq.
Seven hundred people attended the protest rally, which was
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Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise
opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning
a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30.
Pictured are the activists
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE A video and discussion night on the continuing US/UN war
against Iraq was held in the Paddington Workers Club on November 7. It
featured a talk by researcher Pauline Rigby on the horrific results of
US/UN
Seventy protesters marched
down the streets of Leichhardt in opposition to war and racism on November
8. The protest was organised by the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist
Alliance.
Photo by Liam Mitchell.
From Green Left Weekly,
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG
Fifteen students from six local high schools came together on October
28 to form the Illawarra High School Student Social Action Network.
The network was formed to encourage students to call for human
Anti-war recruitment centre
MELBOURNE Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.
Globalization and its Discontents
By Joseph Stiglitz
Penguin, $45 (hb)
REVIEW BY LEE SUSTAR
In the last decades of
the USSR, Western officials denounced the Kremlin whenever Moscow purged
or harassed dissidents who had the courage
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY Activists
planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial
meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's
plans to prohibit street marches during the
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
Earlier this year, the Out of Order student collective carried out an 84-day protest and occupation of the lawns of the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University in a successful campaign to save the school of
BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.
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