BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — To enormous applause, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger made an impassioned call for people to support the Sydney high-school student anti-war protesters who have been pilloried by the corporate media.
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BY SEAN SEYMOUR-JONES
MELBOURNE — Up to 4000 predominantly high school students careened through the streets of Melbourne in a chaotic and energetic display of anger over the war on Iraq on March 26.
Even before the speaking platform began the
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"Iraq has no emperor to lend authority and cover for an American regent." — Retired US Army general Wesley Clark, commenting on the plans for a US military regime in post-war Iraq, Washington Post, March
What should Australia's
huge anti-war movement be doing now that the war against Iraq has begun?
To get the views of the Socialist Alliance, Australia's main left organisation,
Green Left Weekly's NORM DIXON interviewed its three national
BY NORM DIXON
Those in the US, British and Australian governments and their mainstream media toadies who hoped the anti-war movement in the US and around the world would collapse following the launch of Washington's barbaric blitzkrieg against Iraq
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The racist hysteria and red-baiting by the pro-war media were to be expected after the police aggression during Sydney's Books Not Bombs protest on March 26. The following resolution, however, adopted on March 27 without a
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON, March 26 — Today is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military target".
You will not read or hear those words in the establishment
[The following statement was issued on March 27 by the Sydney Books Not Bombs anti-war group.]
The Books Not Bombs student activists, who faced severe police violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, need your help. They have appealed for support for
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The US rulers have been keen to portray their army's invasion of Iraq as aimed at "liberating" its people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. However, US propaganda appears to have had little impact on the Iraqi population.
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