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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BY KAMALA EMANUEL
BURNIE — Student anti-war activist Matt Hardy completed a week-long hunger strike against war on Iraq on April 2. Supported by a network of friends and family, Hardy spent the week outside the Kmart Plaza on one of the main
BY PIP HINMAN
Scenes of exuberant "liberated" Iraqis and Kurds have quickly given way to scenes of concern and anger that the US "liberators" are preparing to be occupiers.
Even the Sydney Morning Herald's pro-war correspondent Paul McGeough has
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in Australia for three years,
are being taken from their houses in the early hours of the morning and
put into detention because the immigration department argues that they
are not
BY BEN COLLINS
MELBOURNE — About 1000 trade unionists met on April 9 to protest against the findings of the royal commission into the building industry and to plan the next steps in the campaign to defend unions from federal government attacks.
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
Weapons for mass destruction...
"We are talking about finding a site of possible weapons of mass destruction." — US Army's 3rd Infantry Division spokesperson Major Ross Coffman on the March 23 discovery of a chemical factory south of Baghdad,
BY DOUG LORIMER
Emboldened by the US military's apparent quick defeat of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, the war hawks in and around the administration of US President George Bush are setting their sights on "regime change" in Syria and Iran.
BY DR MARTIN CROTTY& DR RAYMOND EVANS
The federal government has committed this country to join the US and Britain in a legally dubious, highly immoral, massive unprovoked military attack on Iraq.
The lessons of history, we are told, are that
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
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