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
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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 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 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 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,
Crescent Petroleum (Ratawi and WDB 5); Romania's Petrom (WDB4 and Khurmal); a consortium from South Korea (Halfaya and WDB7); Spain's Repsol (WDB4); Taiwan's CPC (Gharraf); Tunisia's Setcar (field development); Vietnam's Petrovietnam for a
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
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
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — A report criticising police behaviour at the November protests at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Sydney mini-summit was released by the Legal Observers Team, based at the University of Technology Sydney, on February
BY
JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA On February 24, hundreds of demonstrators from
the People's Democratic Party (PRD) took action against US plans to attack
Iraq.
The demonstration began at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in central
Jakarta then
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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