BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — At lunchtime on March 25, 400 workers walked off the job to oppose the war on Iraq. They gathered outside Geelong Trades Hall to hear speakers from many unions condemn the US-led slaughter.
Andrea Maksimovic from the
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BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — Participants in a 300-strong anti-war march and rally voted unanimously to support the students' strike planned for April 2. Many pledged to travel to Sydney to defend the right to protest against the war.
Although
BY BRAVE BEAR
ONTARIO — The US-led invasion of Iraq has raised huge questions and created deep confusion within both the population and the political and economic elite in Canada. The government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien has repeatedly
BY ALISON DELLIT
On March 26, around 25,000 students skipped classes to hit the streets and protest against the horrendously unjust war on Iraq. Students braved police violence, and threats of it, parental disapproval and school repression to get
An Iraqi refugee, separated from his wife and children for more than
three years, held in Port Hedland then Villawood detention centre, gave
up hope of a life in Australia and agreed to return to Syria on February
28. A month before, he wrote a
A lack of skepticism toward official US sources has led prominent US corporate news networks into making embarrassing errors in their coverage of the US invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to US claims that proof had been found that Iraq
BY
VANESSA COUZENS
BRISBANE Permanency isn't a condition usually attributed to the
situation of refugees residing in Australia on temporary protection visas.
However, Permanent Links an exhibition at the Black Peppers
Gallery in
BY DAVE
ANDREWS
FREMANTLE As the quadrennial elections for all full-time position
in the Maritime Union of Australia looms, a serious challenge to the incumbents
has emerged from the ranks of the union.
The MUA Rank and File team is
BY KIRAZ JANICKE
PERTH — About 1500 students rallied in Perth on March 26 as part of the national "Books Not Bombs" student strike against the war on Iraq. Students heard from Stuart Bunt, secretary of the UWA Branch of the National Tertiary
Parents for Peace
I am writing as a parent who attended the student peace march on March 26th in Sydney.
Upon arriving at Town Hall I was horrified by the overbearing police presence which included sniffer dogs, lines of riot police and dozens of
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