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
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Only a crime if Iraqi generals do it
"It is important for the Iraqi leadership and Iraqi generals to clearly understand that if they take innocent life, if they destroy infrastructure, they will be held to account as war criminals." — George "The
BY
AMANDA ZIVCIC
Dr Margaret Perrott, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Wollongong
seat of Throsby in the March 22 NSW election, has a long history as a campaigner
for peace and social justice.
Socialists, by their very definition,
BY STEPHEN BENNETS
ROME — Italian peace activists have been blockading US military convoys along northern Italy's rail routes since February 21. It is further evidence of the rising tide of opposition to the right-wing Italian government's
On February 24, the US and Britain presented the other 13 members of the UN Security Council with a draft resolution which declares that "Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity afforded it in resolution 1441 (adopted by the council on November
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 ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Tasmanian education minister Paula Wriedt and federal education minister Brendan Nelson have publicly chastised secondary students planning to join the March 5 national student strike against the war on Iraq. Student
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — The idea of a mass national convergence in Canberra on March 23-24 has caught the imagination of many anti-war activists. The proposed mass demonstration will coincide with federal parliament's last week of
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
BY EMMA
CLANCY
Students from hundreds of high schools around Australia are set to
participate in the March 5 student strike against the impending US war
against Iraq. They will be joined by large numbers of college and university
students,
BY
GRANT COLEMAN
On March 18 the federal cabinet approved education minister Brendan
Nelson's proposed reforms to Australia's higher education system. According
to the March 25 Sydney Morning Herald, implementation of the Nelson
review
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