BRISBANE On March 1, 200 anti-war protesters marched from the inner-city
suburb of West End to King George Square in the city, where a rally was
being held to greet the newly established Peace Embassy. The march and
rally were initiated by
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BY
PETER BOYLE
GLASGOW The Scottish Socialist Party may win up to eight candidates
in the May 1 elections for the Scottish parliament. At the very least,
sole SSP parliamentarian Tommy Sheridan told the annual SSP conference
on February
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — February 15 marked the Canadian anti-war movement's impressive growth. In Toronto, Canada's largest city, between 30,000 and 50,000 people braved bitter cold and icy winds to assert their unconditional opposition to war
BY
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
SYDNEY I believe that young people will be especially affected
by the war, and that is one of the reasons why opposition to the war among
youth and students is so strong, Karol Florek told Green Left Weekly.
In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist", Newsweek's March 3 issue reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told UN inspectors
University shuts down anti-war stalls
BY SAM KING
BRISBANE — Queensland University of Technology (QUT) used police to shut down an "unauthorised" anti-war campaigning stall on its Kelvin Grove campus on February 19. Police threatened activists
BY
TAMARA PEARSON
HARARE At 8am, people here wait in long queues for the shops and
banks to open. Milk is scarce, and salt and oil can only be obtained at
ridiculous prices on the black market. Cars form 1-kilometre-long queues
for
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 ERIC RUDER& MELANIE WILKINSON
CHICAGO — Some 300 students from 100 US campuses gathered in Chicago on the February 22-23 weekend to hold the first national conference of the Campus Anti-war Network (CAN).
CAN decided on its points of unity,
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
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