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March 5 student strike: 'activating society' against the war

BY EMMA CLANCY The March 5 student strike appears is set to become the next big, nationally coordinated anti-war protest across Australia. Hundreds of students attended meetings to organise the strike on the February 14-16 weekend, after

Anti-war organising in Mackay

BY SHANE HOPKINSON MACKAY, north Queensland — A week after moving to Mackay from Rockhampton, where I had been involved in anti-war organising, I received a phone call asking if any Mackay actions were planned. A quick phone call to the local

Police destroy part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Seventy police, 30 in riot gear, raided the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 6am on February 19. They dismantled a recently erected A-frame tin goonji. Most of those sleeping on-site at the time of the raid were women and

Student speaks: 'The people of Iraq have suffered enough'

BY ZOE KENNY MELBOURNE — Maryan al-Talebi is a seemingly average 17-year-old high school student living in Footscray. She has a part-time job and is undertaking her final year of the Victorian Certificate of Education. But behind al-Talebi’s

UNITED STATES: Anti-war protests gain strength, breadth

BY ALEX CHIS SAN FRANCISCO — Sunday February 16 was the largest anti-war protest in this city's history, with the march organisers estimating that 250,000 people took part. Even the police department said about 200,000 marched — double that

FRANCE: 500,000 say 'Non a la guerre! Oui, a la paix!'

BY GERALD LENOIR PARIS — Despite intense pressure from the US government, French President Jacques Chirac continues to maintain that France will veto a United Nations Security Council resolution authorising a war in Iraq. On February 15, I

Labor divisions over war deepen

BY ALISON DELLIT The February 14-16 world-wide peace protests starkly exposed the gulf between the warmongering governments and media of Australia, the United States and Britain on the one hand, and the populations of those countries on the

5 reasons to join the March 5 student strike

BY GRANT COLEMAN On March 5, high school, campus and TAFE students across Australia will act together with US students in refusing to attend classes. We will be calling for “books not bombs” and demanding that Australian troops be brought

BRITAIN: Blair in trouble as millions march

BY PHIL HEARSE According to Labour MPs, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has only a few weeks to turn around the dreadful political mess in which his support for US President George Bush's looming attack on Iraq has landed him. Blair

ACEH: Indonesia violates peace accord

BY IGGY KIM The Indonesian government has again violated the December 10 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA). The agreement was supposed to bring an end to violence in Aceh. Indonesian authorities have arrested Acehnese civil rights

EGYPT: Anti-war activists arrested and tortured

By Ahmed Ben Bella, George Galloway & John Rees At least 13 Egyptian activists against the war on Iraq have been arrested. Ten remain in custody; 11 of the 13 arrested have been tortured. We have received a plea for solidarity from a broad range

Socialist Alliance for lesbian and gay rights

On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the streets of inner-city Sydney in a confident assertion of all people's right to choose and live their sexual orientation, and to mark the political struggles that have won