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.
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Around the globe, tens of thousands of women, men and children marched on International Women's Day, March 8, to protest against US President George Bush's proposed war on Iraq.
Women will be the hardest hit by war in a country that is already
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"The United States' record is not one of imperialism. It is one of doing the job, bringing peace, restoring order and getting a responsible government in place." — US Secretary of State and UN slide shows Colin
In the article "An anti-war activist stands for parliament" in last week's Green Left Weekly, Margaret Perrott was mistakenly as the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Wollongong seat of Throsby in the March 22 NSW election. She is actually a
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — "Several times, a large area was coated white. After a couple of days the leaves in the forest and the gardens turned yellow and fell off." This is how 50-year-old Nguyen Van Loc describes his first vision of a US
BY ALISON
DELLIT
Across Australia on March 8, women, men and children took to the
streets, using annual International Womens Day marches as an opportunity
to say no to US President George Bush and Prime Minister John Howards
war on
BY EMMA CLANCY
The Books Not Bombs Coalition was launched around the country on March 5, with thousands of its newsletters being distributed and meetings being held afterwards in some cities. Many high school activists and groups came into contact
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,
MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people cheered and clapped as a number of great performers appeared on the stage of the Melbourne Concert Hall on February 28. They were there for the Morning Star Concert of West Papua. The biggest cheers went up every
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