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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
BY PETER ROBSON NEWCASTLE — Despite Newcastle police calling high school principals and warning them of violent protest, the Newcastle March 26 student strike against the war attracted over 350 students, mostly from high school. Students
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
BY SUE BULL GEELONG — At lunchtime on March 25, 400 workers walked off the job to oppose the war on Iraq. They gathered outside Geelong Trades Hall to hear speakers from many unions condemn the US-led slaughter. Andrea Maksimovic from the

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What should Australia's huge anti-war movement be doing now that the war against Iraq has begun? To get the views of the Socialist Alliance, Australia's main left organisation, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's NORM DIXON interviewed its three national
BY JIM GREEN ADELAIDE — The South Australian parliament has legislated to ban the construction of a national radioactive waste dump in the state. The legislation, passed by the upper house in a special sitting to debate the bill on March
BY ALISON DELLIT& ANTHONY BENBOW "The government's decision to commit [Australian troops to the US-led invasion of Iraq] was wrong but we have got to be realistic about this. They are there and what we have got to hope for in the current
BY VANESSA COUZENS BRISBANE — Permanency isn't a condition usually attributed to the situation of refugees residing in Australia on temporary protection visas. However, Permanent Links — an exhibition at the Black Peppers Gallery in
An Iraqi refugee, separated from his wife and children for more than three years, held in Port Hedland then Villawood detention centre, gave up hope of a life in Australia and agreed to return to Syria on February 28. A month before, he wrote a
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON, March 26 — Today is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military target". You will not read or hear those words in the establishment
BY ROHAN PEARCE The US-led invasion of Iraq has enraged people throughout the Arab nations, jeopardising regimes allied to the US. On March 21, a wave of angry mobilisations swept the Middle East and north Africa. Defying a ban on protests,