Labor Council roasted
The right-wing controlled NSW Labor Council has received a barrage of letters condemning their attack on the Books Not Bombs student anti-war protests. They are buried in the back of the letters page of the Workers Online web
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BY KAMALA
EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON The Socialist Alliance took a step forward with its
state conference held here on April 5-6. Conference participants included
members and observers from Hobart, Launceston, and the west and north-west
coasts.
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY Student protest hijacked by hatred, Sydneys tabloid rag
the Daily Telegraph declared, the day after the March 26 10,000-strong
student anti-war protest. The newspaper argued that the rally was ambushed
by a
OAKLAND, California — More than 10,000 people marched through downtown Oakland on April 6 to protest against the US invasion of Iraq. Many participated in contingents of people of colour, labour and students. At the end of the march, singer
BY
DOUG LORIMER
CANBERRA The head of the Palestinian Authority delegation to Australia,
Ali Kazak, issued a statement on April 6 criticising Australian and other
Western media for their uncritical reporting and interviewing of Australian,
BY JIM
GREEN
ADELAIDE About 100 people attended a public debate on April 6 concerning
the federal government's plan to build a national radioactive waste dump
near Woomera, in northern South Australia.
Organised by the Campaign Against
The role of women in the military has been brought to the fore again, as a torrent of sexist nonsense has emerged following the capture of women soldiers by Iraqi forces.
According to the March 27 New York Times, Elaine Donnelly, president of the
BY DAVID BACON
SACRAMENTO — In 1968, bombs dropped over Vietnam exploded in US cities. Poverty and inequality combined with war to set cities alight. Today, young people's shrinking possibilities for a future other than military service after
Wilfred Owen: A New BiographyBy Dominic HibberdWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002424 pages, $59.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Death snatched 10 million lives in World War I but it reserved a cruel teasing for those who survived a long, five-year war
BY TAMARA PEARSON
A successful two-day general strike on March 18-19 gave the opposition Movement for Democratic Change a large boost to win the March 29-30 Highfield by-election. The by-election was called following the expulsion from the MDC of
In two separate incidents in late March, dozens of civilians in Iraq were killed by what eyewitness survivors say were US airstrikes. US officials, however, offered a range of denials and evasions about what may have caused the explosions. Despite
The Children of the Gulf War, an exhibition of photographs depicting the effects of depleted uranium on the children of the Iraq, is showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) until April 24.
The exhibition consists of 58
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