About 200 people rallied in Brisbane's King George Square on February 25 to show solidarity with the people of Libya resisting the oppressive regime of Muammar Gaddafi. A banner proclaiming "Free Libya" was fixed to a wall, together with photos of victims of the Libyan military and police.
Placards carried by members of the Libyan community, many of them students, read "Stop using mercenaries to kill our people" and "Please help our country".
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WikiLeaks has announced it will pursue legal action against disgruntled former employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg, whose recently released book, Inside WikiLeaks, slams Julian Assange's leadership and character in a series of allegations.
Some of the allegations appear serious. Others are hopelessly trivial.
Iraq: Protesters met with bullets
鈥淪oldiers and riot police fired on citizens rallying for jobs, public services and clean government across occupied Iraq,鈥 the British Morning Star said on February 25. The article said at least 13 civilians were killed and many more wounded.
Thousands of workers took to the streets in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi, Basra, Fallujah and Tikrit despite a curfew.
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The phenomenon was reported in an article posted at Time.com by Rana Foroohar, who said: 鈥淚 consulted Google to see if the term 鈥楳arxism鈥 was trending upward. It was and has been ever since the end of December.鈥
In 1987, I visited Libya as a journalist for the left-wing newspaper Direct Action. I visited Gaddafi鈥檚 bombed-out home 鈥 attacked by the United States one year earlier.
In the 1980s, the Gaddafi regime came under attack from the US government because it took an anti-imperialist line and gave financial and material aid to many national liberation movements at the time.
About 200 members of the Libyan community and supporters held an angry protest at Sydney's Town Hall on February 22 to condemn the brutal massacres against pro-democracy protesters carried out by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Protesters chanted "Down, down Gaddafi!" and (in Arabic) "The people's voice must be heard!"
The rally was told the death toll in the crackdown, which has included military airplanes attacking protesters, had killed at least 500 people and injured more than 3000.
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