BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The March 26 meeting of the Workers Against the War group voted to condemn the violence of the NSW police against student anti-war protesters in Sydney and offered to provide support in the form of marshals to students
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BY
TAMARA PEARSON
In Pakistan, student activists are beaten and intimidated by the
Islamic fundamentalists; in Zimbabwe, police attend student meetings and
political activity on most campuses and colleges is prohibited; and in
India, blind
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 KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY — On April 2, around 1200 anti-war students and their supporters
defied the NSW police by gathering in SydneyÂ’s Town Hall Square to oppose
the war on Iraq and reaffirm their right to protest.
Despite a
BY
GRANT COLEMAN
The National Union of Students (NUS) has organised a national day
of action against funding cuts and student fee increases for April 10.
Kylie Moon, a leader of the student anti-war group Books Not Bombs, has
called on all
US warplanes dropped cluster bombs on the Iraqi town of Hilla. The deadly anti-personnel weapons are also believed to have been used in assaults on Najaf, Nasiriya and Basra by US-led invasion forces. Cluster munitions
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On March 30, at least 100,000 people marched through this city's streets to protest against the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its British and Australian appendages. In the wake of the mass anti-war march, there
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
NICK EVERETT
As the war in Iraq passed its first fortnight, thousands of Iraqis
have been killed by US, Australian and British troops. Unlike many of the
US dead and injured, we will never know most of the IraqisÂ’ names, what
their lives
Know who they're fighting for
"My first reaction when I saw it was this was not a political statement in any way by the men and women of 101st. I think the 101st was being pretty creative and naming things after what reminds them of home. And I
Following the
police brutality at the March 26 Books Not Bombs student anti-war protest
in Sydney, and threats of more prior to the BNB protest on April 2, the
corporate media and NSW Labor government ran a campaign of slander and
red-baiting
BY
PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — A concerted campaign by the NSW Labor Council has not yet
succeeded in splitting the peace movement in Sydney. The campaign, which
was applauded by the pro-war Murdoch press, shifted into high gear in the
lead-up to
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