BY DALE
MILLS
SYDNEY A group of volunteer solicitors, barristers and law students
set up to monitor police behaviour at demonstrations have expressed serious
concern at the refusal by police to allow the April 2 student anti-war
protest,
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
On March 31, soldiers from the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division stationed
at a roadblock near the Iraqi towns of Najaf and Karbala opened fire on
a car, killing 11 of the civilians inside. According to an embedded Washington
SYDNEY — The Books not Bombs coalition issued a call for solidarity with the April 2 student anti-war protest, following the police provocation that occurred on March 26.
Among those who expressed solidarity were the Victorian Peace Network,
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY On April 2, around 1200 anti-war students and their supporters
defied the NSW police by gathering in Sydneys Town Hall Square to oppose
the war on Iraq and reaffirm their right to protest.
Despite a
As Palestinians brace themselves for the first anniversary of the Israeli occupation forces' bloody invasion of the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, it has been revealed that an Israeli expert has guided US marine officers through its putrid alleys to
BY APRIL HURLEY
BAGHDAD, March 24 — At the al Kindi Hospital emergency department, Fatima Abdullah is screaming in outrage: "Why do you do this to us?". Her eight-year-old, Fatehah is dead, two other daughters are on stretchers, wounded by a
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The April 2 Books Not Bombs student anti-war protest in Sydney is the latest of several peaceful political demonstrations to be declared "unlawful" in the last six months by the NSW Labor government, led by Premier Bob
BY RAHUL MAHAJAN
Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra prompted a British military spokesperson on March 25 to
MANILA — "War against poverty, not war against Iraq and Mindanao!" chanted 12,000 workers — members of the workers' party, Partido ng Manggagawa, and the socialist labour group, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) — as they marched down
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH Despite a hysterical campaign by the Western Australian media
and police opposing the right of young people to protest against the Iraq
war, a 400-strong anti-war rally was held by Youth and Students Against
the
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