BY
PETER KRBAVAC
CANBERRA Canberrans turned out in their thousands on February 15
to show their opposition to US President George Bush's war. Organisers
estimate the crowd at more than 15,000 a size not seen at a protest in
Canberra
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BY CHRISTANO KERRILLA
"Alert, alert. For the sword of Bolivar is ready to swing!" — this a popular chant of the supporters of Venezuela's pro-poor president Hugo Chavez Frias. This cry is symbolic of the process of radicalisation taking place
BY MARIA VICTORIA VALDES-RODDA
After two months of trying to bring down President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's right-wing opposition on February 2 announced the end to its "general strike". The opposition alliance, the Coordinadora Democratica (CD),
BY PIP HINMAN
The Socialist Alliance has made stopping the war on Iraq and bringing back the troops the centrepiece of our NSW election campaign. The fact that this is a state election doesn't make our focus any less relevant.
Both major parties
On high schools
across Australia, students are getting together to campaign against war
on Iraq. Green Left Weekly's BRONWYN POWELL spoke to JOCK PALFREEMAN,
a year 11 student at St Ignatius College (Riverview) and a Resistance member,
about
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration.
International Women's Day Collective member and
But as they say, talk's cheap
"Self evidently America is the most powerful country in the world, probably the most powerful country mankind has seen. But, I mean, [Bush] spends a lot of time talking about humanitarian things, about assistance to