BY ALISON DELLIT
Federal Labor leader Simon Crean has signalled yet another retreat on Labor's "anti-war" position. Speaking to the ABC's AM program on April 11, Crean said, "If we are part of the occupying force, the ability to bring [the troops]
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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 ALISON DELLIT
Australian companies have joined the queue for contracts to rebuild Iraq, the country that Australia has just helped destroy. At the same time, Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that the Australian military will help occupy
JOHANNESBURG — On April 5, more than 12,000 people marched behind about 15 "human shields", who have recently returned from Iraq, to oppose the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protest, organised by the Anti-War Coalition (AWC), marched through the
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
The national anti-war student network Books Not Bombs (BNB) will be holding conferences in every state over the Easter weekend to plan its coming activities and campaigns.
"While CNN tells us that Iraq has been
This photo
was sent to student anti-war organisation Books Not Bombs by a supporter
who attended the April 2 anti-war protest in Sydney. It shows two plain
clothes police officers. Shortly after the picture was taken, he indiscriminately
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
BY
DOUG LORIMER
Already, the international battle for Iraq's oil resources is taking
shape, as the rhetoric over who will administer post-war Iraq intensifies,
the US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on April
8.
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — The Great Lakes Security Summit, held here April 7-9, brought together Canadian provincial premiers and US state governors from the Great Lakes region for a conference on Canada-US "border security". Also present were US
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
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