BY ROHAN PEARCE
On February 26, US President George Bush told the American Enterprise Institute a "liberated Iraq can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region, by bringing hope and progress into the lives of millions".
Bush went
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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 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
Joburg businessmen ease into their limos, sip iced coffee under restaurant umbrellasand beneath the city, rust corrugated shackswhere dust and hunger hide sad faceswhere millions of township peoplewalk each day slowlythe nothing they own making not a
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 NICK SOUDAKOFF
On February 12, the Philippines government renewed its military offensive against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Three-thousand government troops, backed up by air force bombers, helicopter gunships, artillery and
BY STEVE O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — The Socialist Alliance has decided not to stand against Progressive Labor Party member Harry Williams in the seat of Newcastle in the March 22 NSW election. The PLP failed to gain state electoral registration and
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A February 20 report by CBS News has revealed that United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq consider US "intelligence" — like that presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Security Council on February 5 — to be
March on International Women's Day
BRISBANE — The International Women's Day collective is expecting a large turnout for this year's IWD rally and march on March 8. The theme is "Women demanding peace and justice". Meetings to organise the
BY
SUE BOLTON
Over the past four weeks, several trade unions have passed motions
to take stop work action against the threatened war on Iraq. Mobilising
the ranks of the unions, the largest organisations of working people, will
be crucial
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