BY NORM DIXON
The US National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) has issued a call for a national one-day student strike to demand "Books not bombs! Stop the war against Iraq" on March 5.
US President George Bush's "administration is
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PERTH More than 2500 people rallied outside the Western Australian
parliament on January 19 to oppose the war on Iraq and the sea swap agreement
between the Australian and US governments. The rally was organised by the
Fremantle
BY
EVA CHENG
Wang Fanxi died in Leeds, England, on December 30. Born in 1907,
Wang became politically active during the anti-imperialist upsurge in China
in the 1920s and participated in the revolutionary communist movement there
for almost
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — At lunchtime on January 20, 200 women sat on the steps of Victorian Parliament House wearing bras on the outside of their t-shirts in protest against war on Iraq.
The action was organised by the prominent actor
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
BUENOS AIRES — Even before Lucio "Lucho" Gutierrez was inaugurated as president of Ecuador on January 15, he had made it very clear what he planned to do. "I am determined to change this nation or die trying", said Gutierrez
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
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
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