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SCOTLAND: Peace warriors get organised

BY ROZ PATERSON& ANDREW MCPAKE GLASGOW — On January 26, 300 anti-war activists gathered for a conference organised by the Scottish Coalition for Justice not War. The question that most activists wanted to resolve was how to mobilise against the

Labor MP defects to Greens

BY RENFREY CLARKE ADELAIDE — Throughout five years as a Labor member of South Australia's state parliament, these were the rules Kris Hanna was expected to abide by: stay quiet as party leaders steered the ALP in behind Howard government

Campaign launched to stop nuclear dump in SA

BY JIM GREEN ADELAIDE — Campaign Against Nuclear Dumping was launched on January 31 in opposition to the federal government's plan for a national radioactive waste dump near Woomera in the centre-north of South Australia. The campaign will

AFRICA: IMF policies sabotage HIV/AIDS fight

BY GORIK OOMS MOZAMBIQUE — "It is very genocidal for one part of the world to have the cure for the AIDS disease while millions of people in another part are dying from the same disease. The developed world is challenged to make antiretroviral

Music that stands up and shakes its fists

Peace Not WarVarious artistsStop the War Coalition (UK)Order at <http://www.stopwar.org.uk/#cd> REVIEW BY LUKE SMITH With the world music industry becoming more commercialised everyday, and with most major record labels being reluctant

Leichhardt picnic for peace

BY PATRICIA SADLEIR SYDNEY — Despite near 40-degree heat, more than 100 people gathered in Bicentennial Park in Glebe on January 26 for a "picnic for peace", the first public event of the recently formed Leichhardt Stop the War Group. The

BRAZIL: A tale of two presidents

BY ORLANDO SEPULVEDA PORTO ALEGRE — Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva spoke to tens of thousands of people at the World Social Forum (WSF) on January 25. It was the first time that Lula, a former factory worker and union leader,

PAKISTAN: Islam and the anti-war movement

BY LUKE FOMIATTI LAHORE — As I watched a 500-strong January 18 anti-war demonstration here, a well-dressed man with a crisp English accent approached me. Believing I was a Western journalist, he asked if I would be interested in interviewing the

Newtown anti-war rally targets Sikorsky

BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — Corporate warmonger Sikorsky was the target on February 1 of a spirited demonstration against war on Iraq. Sikorsky manufacturers helicopters used by armed forces in many imperialist countries. The rally, which drew

In war 'the weak suffer what they must'

Women of TroyWritten by Euripides, translated by Jenny GreenDirected by Jenny Green and Robert KennedyA Hoi Barbaroi productionPlayed by Jeanette Cronin and Zoe HoughtonBelvoir St Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, SydneyUntil February 16Tuesdays, 7pm;

IRAQ: US army trained Iraqi military in bioweapons use

BY NORM DIXON The Global Security Newswire on January 28 revealed that the US Army trained 19 Iraqi military officers in the United States in offensive and defensive chemical, biological and radiological warfare from 1957 to 1967. The information

Judy Horacek: Australia's leading feminist cartoonist

I am Woman, Hear Me DrawCartoons by Judy HoracekState Library of Victoria, Keith Murdoch Gallery, Swanston Street, MelbourneUntil mid-FebruaryFree REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS Cartoonist Judy Horacek's work, now showing at the Victorian State Library,