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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 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 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
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 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
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
Examining recently released government and corporate sources, researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) have uncovered new evidence that oil has long been the driving concern behind US-Iraqi relations. In the 1980s, key figures
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,
BY KIRAZ JANICKE PERTH — About 1500 students rallied in Perth on March 26 as part of the national "Books Not Bombs" student strike against the war on Iraq. Students heard from Stuart Bunt, secretary of the UWA Branch of the National Tertiary
BY SUE BULL GEELONG — When the building industry royal commission reported its findings on March 26, its major focus and attack on trade unionists surprised few construction workers in Geelong. They had always thought the commission was purely
BY ZACK DE LA ROCHA Without just cause or reason, without legal or moral justification and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the US government has headed to war. As I am writing this, bombs