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'The beginning of an international youth movement'

BY ALISON DELLIT The stunning success of the March 5 student strike for peace, which mobilised a whopping 30,000 mostly high school students, took even the corporate media by surprise. Although mixed, much of the coverage was favourable.

CANADA: York University sends in the cops

BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — Picket lines went up at Canada's third-largest university, York University, on March 5 as students went on strike as part of a day of international student actions against the war. In one of winter's heaviest snowfalls,

Anti-war activist notebook

Bankstown against the war BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — On March 2, 70 people gathered in the Bankstown City Gardens for a "Peace Picnic". Local anti-war activists used the get-together to form the Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group. Following a

Student strike sets example to unions

Student strike sets example to unions In a magnificent display of conscience, irreverence and determination, more than 30,000 students — largely from state and private high schools — took to the streets around the country on March 5

IRAQ: Petras: 'a clash between barbarism and civilization'

BY JAMES PETRAS According to UN estimates, more than 10 million Iraqis will be injured, displaced, traumatised or killed by the planned US war of aggression. It is highly likely that US military intelligence figures coincide with these estimates.

Cuba joins the Lysistrata Project

HAVANA — On March 3, performers in the Cuban capital contributed their talents, along with others in more than 1000 cities around the world (including in all 50 US states), to the Lysistrata Project. The project was a worldwide, simultaneous

Protest against poison bait

HOBART — On February 12, forest activists showed what they think of Premier Jim Bacon allowing Forestry Tasmania to use carrots laced with 1080 poison as bait to kill native animals. The poison causes a painful death, and is not monitored

Stop work to stop the war!

BY SUE BOLTON Over the weekend of February 14-16, millions of people protested against Washington's impending war on Iraq. The huge size of the anti-war protests, and the fact that the big majority of people around the world are opposed to

Black Paradise: 'Kami menyanyi untuk hidup' (We sing for life)

Black Paradise: 'Kami menyanyi untuk hidup' (We sing for life) BY JASON MacLEOD "Nanen babe nanen babe, Kwin matreuban maska teufyar deiwa teimwa, Aram usker ma enap aram enap (The morning star appears in the east and will soon be followed by the

UNITED STATES: Student strikers: 'Hell no, we won't fight for Texaco!'

BY DANI BARLEY DETROIT — With chants such as “Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco”, students across the United States protested on March 5 in record numbers. Far exceeding the expectation of protest organisers, up to 50,000

30,000 students strike against war: plan to strike again March 26.

BY EMMA CLANCY The March 5 student strike against war was a huge success, mobilising around 30,000 students and young people across Australia as part of an international day of student action to stop the impending war on Iraq. Some elements

East Timor, Iraq and Jose Ramos Horta

East Timorese foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta's defence of Washington's "aggressive strategy" towards Iraq is not a surprise. Horta's approach to diplomacy throughout the struggle for East Timor's independence was always based on offering assurances to the US government that an independent East Timor would be friendly towards US interests. This approach was bound to lead to major defects of memory (and analysis) once independence was achieved. These defects are most evident in his article "War for peace? It worked in my country", published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age on February 25.