BY NEIL EVERLEY
SYDNEY — Two hundred anti-war protesters gathered at Cawper Wharf, Woolloomooloo, on January 23, in a stormy protest against Australian involvement in a war on Iraq.
The protesters were responding to a call put out by anti-war
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ANTARCTICA People at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica seven continents
united joined with hundreds of thousands of others around the world on
January 18 to call for peace not war in Iraq. With the Antarctic mountain
range in the
BY NATASHA IZATT
LONDON — More than 800 delegates, representing around 60 local groups across the United Kingdom, gathered in London on January 11 to discuss the state of the anti-war movement and to plan the future actions of the Stop the War
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A powerful new anti-war documentary is being screened by Socialist Alliance. Not in My Name tells the story of the US-led "war on terrorism" you have not been allowed to see on tellie. It asks, "why is dropping bombs on
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FEDERICO FUENTES
PORTO ALEGRE This city is buzzing as more and more people arrive
each day for the third annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF),
being held here January 23-28. Once again, tens of thousands of global
justice
REVIEW BY ALEX SALMON
The Quiet AmericanBased on the book by Graham GreeneDirected by Philip NoyceStarring Michael Caine,
Brendan Fraser and Do Thi Hai YenShowing at major cinemas
The Quiet American is a dramatised account of the CIA's role in
When the government is preparing to wage a bloody war on the people of Iraq, which will result in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people;
When Australian corporate war-profiteers, like Qantas, BHP, and Dunlop, are set to
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
Only a year after the worst bushfires in Australia's written history, another round of horrific bushfires is sweeping through south-eastern Australia. In Canberra, four people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 530 houses
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In the last weeks, further incidents of abuse of asylum seekers have come to light at detention centres on Christmas Island, Nauru and Woomera.
An Iraqi woman, detained on Christmas Island with her husband and two children, was
BY JON LAMB
NEWCASTLE — Miners at the United coal mine 16 kilometres west of Singleton and several other pits in the Hunter region are preparing to step-up industrial action to improve wages and conditions.
"At United, the miners accepted a
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