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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.

Alternative news sources on the Iraq war

Al Ahram weekly newspaper from Egypt features regular articles from Edward Said — <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg> Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station — <http://english.aljazeera.net> Al Jazeera (not the TV station) —

Building industry royal commission — the bosses' tool

BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — The release by commissioner Terence Cole of the royal commission into the building industry’s final 23-volume report showed decisively that this commission had nothing to do with fighting corruption, and everything

BRITAIN: Australians Against the War forms in London

BY MARTIN ILTIS LONDON — On March 22, up to 500,000 people demonstrated in central London against the US-British-Australian invasion of Iraq. Among those hundreds of thousands of concerned people were a vocal contingent of Australians

The hypocrisy of a 'war of liberation'

BY SARAH STEPHEN The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being waged for a just and moral cause — to free the Iraqi people from a despotic and brutal dictator, to allow the people of Iraq to build a free and democratic

US veterans oppose war

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Teachers union slams Beattie over strike ban

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Queensland Teachers Union president Julie-Ann McCullough has slammed Labor Premier Peter Beattie's government after the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) ordered the QTU to end its campaign of rolling

Carr government bans student peace march

BY EMMA CLANCY SYDNEY — In an extraordinary move, the newly re-elected NSW Labor government has denied a permit for a student peace march on April 2, organised by Books Not Bombs, the national student anti-war organisation. Books Not Bombs

CANADA: Behind Chretien's token opposition to US war

BY BRAVE BEAR ONTARIO — The US-led invasion of Iraq has raised huge questions and created deep confusion within both the population and the political and economic elite in Canada. The government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien has repeatedly

Anti-war celebs crash Hollywood's party

BY ALISON DELLIT I'm sure mine wasn't the only household in Australia to grin and whoop as Michael Moore, maker of Bowling For Columbine, cut neatly through the bullshit at the 2003 Oscars to deliver a passionate anti-war speech. Ignoring

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

ITALY: 'A movement that will totally change society'

ROME — As well as the Colosseum, pizza and designer fashions, Italy is increasingly noticed for its massive demonstrations against war and neoliberal globalisation. On February 15, 2.5 million people mobilised in Rome against the war on Iraq. On