BY SUSAN PRICE
SYDNEY — "If the Howard government won't consult the people by holding a nationwide referendum on the war, then the people should organise their own referendum", Lisa Macdonald, the Socialist Alliance's lead candidate for the NSW
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BY IGGY KIM
The Indonesian government has again violated the December 10 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA). The agreement was supposed to bring an end to violence in Aceh.
Indonesian authorities have arrested Acehnese civil rights
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — The ACT Network Opposing War on February 18 issued its own call for all anti-war and peace groups, community organisations, trade unions, student and youth groups and political organisations opposed to a war on
BY
ALEX CHIS
SAN FRANCISCO Sunday February 16 was the largest anti-war
protest in this city's history, with the march organisers estimating that
250,000 people took part. Even the police department said about 200,000
marched double that
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — The Indonesian government's decision to divide West Papua into three provinces is a further attack by Jakarta on the Papuan people's right to self-determination, West Papua Institute for Human Rights supervisor John Rumbiak
AMEC workers victory
MELBOURNE — Workers employed by AMEC, the company contracted to install new generators at the Carrum Downs water treatment plant, are back at work. They won the reinstatement of eight workers, including the Australian
BY EVA CHENG
Despite mass protests last December, the Hong Kong government is pressing ahead with plans to pass a draconian new law which will seriously curb freedom of speech and association.
In September — using the pretext of combating
By Ahmed Ben Bella, George Galloway & John Rees
At least 13 Egyptian activists against the war on Iraq have been arrested. Ten remain in custody; 11 of the 13 arrested have been tortured.
We have received a plea for solidarity from a broad range
BY
PIP HINMAN
More than 1 million Australians marched against war on Iraq two weekends
ago. About 12 million people marched worldwide. The scale of the opposition
to the US-led drive to war is unprecedented and is acting as a brake on
Wollongongs peace train and IWD plans
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG After the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war rally here, a
large crowd was expected to travel from Wollongong to Sydney on February
16. Although originally NOWAR had
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