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Ecopella celebrates the Earth

SYDNEY — A cappella ensemble Ecopella will launches its first CD, An Organism Called Earth, on March 1 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. Founded in 1998, the Sydney-based Ecopella was the first Australian choir to focus its repertoire on

Anti-war organising in Mackay

BY SHANE HOPKINSON MACKAY, north Queensland — A week after moving to Mackay from Rockhampton, where I had been involved in anti-war organising, I received a phone call asking if any Mackay actions were planned. A quick phone call to the local

SPAIN: Four million marchers shake Aznar

BY ED GEORGE LEON — The February 15 anti-war mobilisations were huge all over the world; in the Spanish state they were truly enormous. If one tots up the 1.5 million who marched in Madrid with the 1 million plus in Barcelona, and then add

Police destroy part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Seventy police, 30 in riot gear, raided the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 6am on February 19. They dismantled a recently erected A-frame tin goonji. Most of those sleeping on-site at the time of the raid were women and

ITALY: Millions of people flood Rome

BY STEPHEN BENNETTS ROME — At least 2 million people (organisers estimate 3 million) from all over Italy converged on Rome on February 15, one of the largest peace rallies held in the world on that day. An entire section of the historic

March 5 student strike: 'activating society' against the war

BY EMMA CLANCY The March 5 student strike appears is set to become the next big, nationally coordinated anti-war protest across Australia. Hundreds of students attended meetings to organise the strike on the February 14-16 weekend, after

Labor divisions over war deepen

BY ALISON DELLIT The February 14-16 world-wide peace protests starkly exposed the gulf between the warmongering governments and media of Australia, the United States and Britain on the one hand, and the populations of those countries on the

Student speaks: 'The people of Iraq have suffered enough'

BY ZOE KENNY MELBOURNE — Maryan al-Talebi is a seemingly average 17-year-old high school student living in Footscray. She has a part-time job and is undertaking her final year of the Victorian Certificate of Education. But behind al-Talebi’s

5 reasons to join the March 5 student strike

BY GRANT COLEMAN On March 5, high school, campus and TAFE students across Australia will act together with US students in refusing to attend classes. We will be calling for “books not bombs” and demanding that Australian troops be brought

UNITED STATES: Anti-war protests gain strength, breadth

BY ALEX CHIS SAN FRANCISCO — Sunday February 16 was the largest anti-war protest in this city's history, with the march organisers estimating that 250,000 people took part. Even the police department said about 200,000 marched — double that

FRANCE: 500,000 say 'Non a la guerre! Oui, a la paix!'

BY GERALD LENOIR PARIS — Despite intense pressure from the US government, French President Jacques Chirac continues to maintain that France will veto a United Nations Security Council resolution authorising a war in Iraq. On February 15, I

Revolutionary feminism and socialist unity

BY PAT BREWER Is the Democratic Socialist Party a revolutionary feminist party? Not really, according to Alison Thorne, a leading member of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP). The DSP, Thorne argued in her contribution on the future of the