Already this year,
dozens of groups have been formed on high schools, organising students
to protest against war on Iraq and the accompanying slaughter of the Iraqi
people. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has put together some
528
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — When the leaders of the trade union movement in Queensland proclaimed to the 100,000 anti-war protesters who rallied on February 16 that they would give the strongest possible support to the anti-war movement, what
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — Sixty unionists attended a meeting organised by the NSW
Labor Council on February 26 to discuss the impending war on Iraq and the
response of the unions.
ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd described the
BY EVA CHENG
Even though it was only a few years after the 1945 US nuclear attack on Japan, between 1950 and 1953, China's young Communist government, technologically miles behind the US, courageously fought alongside North Korea to repel US
BY DOUG LORIMER
On the weekend of March 1-2, two military transport ships carrying equipment, including 300 helicopters, for the 17,000 troops of the US army's 101st Airborne Division departed Florida on a three-week voyage to the Persian Gulf.
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The government of the Philippines' agenda of crushing the national liberation movement in Mindanao, with the active help of the US military, has been dramatically exposed. But it didn't come from a government leak; the political
Some feminists in the First World argue that feminism is simply about changing the way men and women relate in "our" society — critiquing gender stereotypes in movies, for example, or having affirmative-action policies in the Australian parliament.
BY LINDSAY ROWAN
"The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised" — Gil Scott Heron.
In the
BY DAVE ANDREWS
FREMANTLE — Meeting on February 24, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) employees at P&O Ports here decisively rejected an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) negotiated between their union and P&O.
Despite heavy promotion by
SYDNEY — Around 200 people rallied against a war against Iraq in Auburn,
in Sydney's western suburbs, on February 28. The rally was initiated by
the Socialist Alliance and endorsed by the Iraqi Women's Committee, the
Western Suburbs Peace
BY DOUG LORIMER
On February 23 protesters again took to the streets of Spain in massive numbers to protest against Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's government.
On February 15, as part of the international day of anti-war protests, more than four
Socialist candidates endorse student strike
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance candidates standing in the Maribyrnong and Brimbank council elections will participate in the March 5 student strike against the war and the
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