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Anti-war activist notebook

University shuts down anti-war stalls BY SAM KING BRISBANE — Queensland University of Technology (QUT) used police to shut down an "unauthorised" anti-war campaigning stall on its Kelvin Grove campus on February 19. Police threatened activists

Anti-war activist stands for parliament

BY AMANDA ZIVCIC Dr Margaret Perrott, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Wollongong seat of Throsby in the March 22 NSW election, has a long history as a campaigner for peace and social justice. “Socialists, by their very definition,

Students answer education ministers

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Tasmanian education minister Paula Wriedt and federal education minister Brendan Nelson have publicly chastised secondary students planning to join the March 5 national student strike against the war on Iraq. Student

Loose Cannons

Only a crime if Iraqi generals do it "It is important for the Iraqi leadership and Iraqi generals to clearly understand that if they take innocent life, if they destroy infrastructure, they will be held to account as war criminals." — George "The

With or without UN: No War!

On February 24, the US and Britain presented the other 13 members of the UN Security Council with a draft resolution which declares that "Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity afforded it in resolution 1441 (adopted by the council on November

UNITED STATES: Student activists form anti-war network

BY ERIC RUDER& MELANIE WILKINSON CHICAGO — Some 300 students from 100 US campuses gathered in Chicago on the February 22-23 weekend to hold the first national conference of the Campus Anti-war Network (CAN). CAN decided on its points of unity,

Momentum for Canberra convergence grows

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS CANBERRA — The idea of a mass national convergence in Canberra on March 23-24 has caught the imagination of many anti-war activists. The proposed mass demonstration will coincide with federal parliament's last week of

Nelson review attacks students, staff

BY GRANT COLEMAN On March 18 the federal cabinet approved education minister Brendan Nelson's proposed “reforms” to Australia's higher education system. According to the March 25 Sydney Morning Herald, implementation of the “Nelson review”

US invasion won't liberate Iraq

BY ROHAN PEARCE On February 26, US President George Bush told the American Enterprise Institute a "liberated Iraq can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region, by bringing hope and progress into the lives of millions". Bush went

Support grows for student anti-war coalition

BY EMMA CLANCY Students from hundreds of high schools around Australia are set to participate in the March 5 student strike against the impending US war against Iraq. They will be joined by large numbers of college and university students,

Who has oil deals with Saddam

Crescent Petroleum (Ratawi and WDB 5); Romania's Petrom (WDB4 and Khurmal); a consortium from South Korea (Halfaya and WDB7); Spain's Repsol (WDB4); Taiwan's CPC (Gharraf); Tunisia's Setcar (field development); Vietnam's Petrovietnam for a

West End declares 'No war on Iraq'

BRISBANE — On March 1, 200 anti-war protesters marched from the inner-city suburb of West End to King George Square in the city, where a rally was being held to greet the newly established Peace Embassy. The march and rally were initiated by