BY MICHAEL ARNOLD
On February 1, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra significantly upped the stakes in the war on drug users, resolving to make Thailand "drug free" within three months.
Given the level of drug use and distribution in
530
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — "In the face of a US-led war on Iraq and the looming World Trade Organisation meeting in Mexico in August, the Brisbane Social Forum wants to create an axis of hope — discussing how another world is possible", according
BY NORM DIXON
Just a month after more than 12 million people across the planet took part in the largest anti-war protest history in an attempt to prevent the United States' war machine decimating the people of Iraq, millions of people throughout
BY ROHAN GAISWINKLER
HOBART — More than one thousand people protested against war on March 15, in a protest organised at less than a week's notice in response to the escalation of US plans for war.
The rally, called by the Peace Coalition,
WELLINGTON Five
people were arrested at a 600-strong anti-war protest outside Parliament
House on March 10. The demonstrators mobilised to greet Australia's pro-war
Prime Minister John Howard as he arrived for a state luncheon hosted by
BY LISA MACDONALD
With the recent rise of the Greens as a real force in electoral politics, the question is posed: why is the Socialist Alliance bothering to contest elections. The answer is simple.
The Socialist Alliance strongly supports the
Rally defends refugees
CANBERRA — "If Saddam Hussein is such a monster, why do you lock his victims up in hell-holes such as the detention camps in Baxter, Woomera and Nauru? If Saddam is such a monster, why are you trying to force asylum
BY DOUG LORIMER
On March 9, US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that Washington was "in striking distance" of getting "nine or 10" votes on the UN Security Council to pass a draft resolution giving Iraq until March 17 to "disarm" or face an
BY TERESA FOARD
LONDON — Several hundred people marched from Parliament Square, Westminster, to a rally at the US embassy on March 8, International Women's Day.
There was a significant presence from the Iraqi, Kurdish and Iranian communities,
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — Around 800 people came to Parliament House on March 13 for an anti-war rally to coincide with Prime Minister John Howard's speech to justify Australian involvement in a US war on Iraq.
Howard's speech was
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