BY CHRISTINA SNOWDON & GRANT COLEMAN
On April 2, students in Wollongong and Brisbane held protest actions in solidarity with anti-war students defending their right to protest in Sydney.
One-hundred people gathered in Brisbane. Speakers discussed
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COMMENT BY LYNNETTE LITTLE
PORT AUGUSTA — Recently, teenagers at the Baxter detention centre started classes at Port Augusta's high school. I want to write a positive story, as there are so many tragic events in the world at the moment. I have
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On March 31, soldiers from the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division stationed
at a roadblock near the Iraqi towns of Najaf and Karbala opened fire on
a car, killing 11 of the civilians inside. According to an embedded Washington
BY
MARTIN ILTIS
LONDON Australians Against the War (AATW) held its first formal
meeting on March 30, attended by about 20 Australians living in London.
The meeting flowed from the group's prominent participation in the 500,000-strong
Why Iraqis are not welcoming US 'liberators'
I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators, US vice-president
Dick Cheney said on March 16, three days before US-led military forces
began their invasion of Iraq.
The real
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — "We are not anti-globalisation, we are pro-democracy, pro-human rights, pro-food sovereignty. We are not against international trade, it is the capitalist race to the bottom that we are against", declared Anuradha Mittal,
BY ALISON
DELLIT
In last weeks Green Left Weekly, I reported on federal Labor
leader Simon Creans public backflip on the ALP's original call for Australian
troops not to participate in a non-UN approved war against Iraq. Many ALP
MPs,
As Palestinians brace themselves for the first anniversary of the Israeli occupation forces' bloody invasion of the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, it has been revealed that an Israeli expert has guided US marine officers through its putrid alleys to
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A number of suburban protests were held on March 29 to demand "No war on Iraq" and "Bring the troops home". Initiated by the Socialist Alliance, the protests were held in West End, Fortitude Valley, Stones Corner and
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
At the end of March, Baxter detainees wrote an open letter to the
Australian people. It said, in part, The government policy is so hard,
so tough they don't want to grant us protection, even on humanitarian
grounds. At
BY SARAH STEPHEN
According to Victorian Greens refugee spokesperson Pamela Curr, the three remaining asylum seekers on Christmas Island were secretly removed at 3am on March 25.
"A specially chartered plane came in from [Papua] New Guinea", she
Books Not Bombs protest
The decision on April 2 by the students to call off the march and be satisfied with a rally in Sydney Town Hall Square was an example of excellent decision-making by the Books Not Bombs leadership.
What I object to is the
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