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Students defiantly protest war

BY ALISON DELLIT On March 26, around 25,000 students skipped classes to hit the streets and protest against the horrendously unjust war on Iraq. Students braved police violence, and threats of it, parental disapproval and school repression to get

Anti-war rally supports students

BY WILL WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — Participants in a 300-strong anti-war march and rally voted unanimously to support the students' strike planned for April 2. Many pledged to travel to Sydney to defend the right to protest against the war. Although

Loose Cannons

Aspirant for title lives in White House "Iraq has no emperor to lend authority and cover for an American regent." — Retired US Army general Wesley Clark, commenting on the plans for a US military regime in post-war Iraq, Washington Post, March

WORLD: 'A peace movement that is growing hour by hour'

BY NORM DIXON Those in the US, British and Australian governments and their mainstream media toadies who hoped the anti-war movement in the US and around the world would collapse following the launch of Washington's barbaric blitzkrieg against Iraq

We must step up our efforts to stop the war

The anti-war movement in Australia — which is one of the aggressor countries in the US-led invasion of Iraq — has a moral duty to escalate its campaign now, before more innocent Iraqi lives are sacrificed in this war. That needs no argument.

IRAQ: US blocks General Assembly meeting

BY DOUG LORIMER While presenting its invasion of Iraq as having the broad international support, Washington has waged a concerted diplomatic campaign to block the convening of an emergency session of the 191 member countries of the UN General

Strong challenge emerges in MUA elections

BY DAVE ANDREWS FREMANTLE — As the quadrennial elections for all full-time position in the Maritime Union of Australia looms, a serious challenge to the incumbents has emerged from the ranks of the union. The MUA Rank and File team is

UNITED STATES: US media repeats Washington's lies

A lack of skepticism toward official US sources has led prominent US corporate news networks into making embarrassing errors in their coverage of the US invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to US claims that proof had been found that Iraq

NSW Labor Council tries to split anti-war movement

BY PETER BOYLE SYDNEY — The racist hysteria and red-baiting by the pro-war media were to be expected after the police aggression during Sydney's Books Not Bombs protest on March 26. The following resolution, however, adopted on March 27 without a

Anti-war protesters' appeal for solidarity

[The following statement was issued on March 27 by the Sydney Books Not Bombs anti-war group.] The Books Not Bombs student activists, who faced severe police violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, need your help. They have appealed for support for

200 attend refugee forum

BY OSCAR JUKES DARWIN — Two-hundred people attended a March 23 public forum to discuss the federal government's plans to deport 84 East Timorese refugees living in the Northern Territory. Organised by the East Timor Action Network, the forum

SOUTH AFRICA: Protesters denounce Australia's war role

JOHANNESBURG — On March 23, 1000 anti-war campaigners gathered near Wanderers Stadium, the venue for the one-day cricket World Cup final between Australia and India. The anti-war protesters condemned the Australian government's participation