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BY DEBRA PAYNE LONDON — Many people on the Februray 15 London anti-war march hadn't been on a march before. But I had and let me tell you it was terrific. I was on one of 25 buses that left Nottingham for London, along with 300 buses from
Already this year, dozens of groups have been formed on high schools, organising students to protest against war on Iraq and the accompanying slaughter of the Iraqi people. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has put together some
BY MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY — Sixty unionists attended a meeting organised by the NSW Labor Council on February 26 to discuss the impending war on Iraq and the response of the unions. ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd described the
BY EVA CHENG Even though it was only a few years after the 1945 US nuclear attack on Japan, between 1950 and 1953, China's young Communist government, technologically miles behind the US, courageously fought alongside North Korea to repel US
BY DOUG LORIMER On the weekend of March 1-2, two military transport ships carrying equipment, including 300 helicopters, for the 17,000 troops of the US army's 101st Airborne Division departed Florida on a three-week voyage to the Persian Gulf.
BY PHILIP FERGUSON CHRISTCHURCH — Anti-war protests took place in nearly 20 centres in New Zealand over the February 15-16 weekend, from Whangarei in the north to Dunedin in the south. The largest was in Auckland, called by Global Peace and
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF The government of the Philippines' agenda of crushing the national liberation movement in Mindanao, with the active help of the US military, has been dramatically exposed. But it didn't come from a government leak; the political
BY LINDSAY ROWAN "The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised" — Gil Scott Heron. In the
BY DAVE ANDREWS FREMANTLE — Meeting on February 24, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) employees at P&O Ports here decisively rejected an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) negotiated between their union and P&O. Despite heavy promotion by
SYDNEY — Around 200 people rallied against a war against Iraq in Auburn, in Sydney's western suburbs, on February 28. The rally was initiated by the Socialist Alliance and endorsed by the Iraqi Women's Committee, the Western Suburbs Peace
BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — When the leaders of the trade union movement in Queensland proclaimed to the 100,000 anti-war protesters who rallied on February 16 that they would give the strongest possible support to the anti-war movement, what
BY DOUG LORIMER On February 23 protesters again took to the streets of Spain in massive numbers to protest against Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's government. On February 15, as part of the international day of anti-war protests, more than four