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BY EMMA MURPHY The February 5 edition of the National Indigenous Times featured a cover article profiling Indigenous leaders who have spoken out against Prime Minister John Howard's support for war on Iraq. The anti-war leaders the Times had
BY SHANE HOPKINSON MACKAY, north Queensland — A week after moving to Mackay from Rockhampton, where I had been involved in anti-war organising, I received a phone call asking if any Mackay actions were planned. A quick phone call to the local
BY AMY MCDONNELL ADELAIDE — “Young people need to be leading the anti-war movement. Tens of thousands of Australian students were involved in stopping the war in Vietnam, and we can stop the war in Iraq”, said University of Adelaide student
On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the streets of inner-city Sydney in a confident assertion of all people's right to choose and live their sexual orientation, and to mark the political struggles that have won
BY HELENA SHEEHAN DUBLIN — Among the millions marching on February 15, there were more than 100,000 on the streets of Dublin. That was the official number being cited not only by enthusiastic activists, but by hostile newspapers and a
BY ALISON DELLIT The February 14-16 world-wide peace protests starkly exposed the gulf between the warmongering governments and media of Australia, the United States and Britain on the one hand, and the populations of those countries on the
BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Armed federal police and immigration officers carried out a Rambo-style raid on an inner-city building site on February 20. The police and immigration officers stormed the Bayview building site in Port Melbourne at
BY IGGY KIM & EVA CHENG As in the rest of the world, there were anti-war protests across Asia on February 14-16. The largest protest was in Tokyo, with 25,000 people marching on February 14. In Thailand, 15,000 protested in two cities
BY PAT BREWER Is the Democratic Socialist Party a revolutionary feminist party? Not really, according to Alison Thorne, a leading member of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP). The DSP, Thorne argued in her contribution on the future of the

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