BY
DANI BARLEY
DETROIT — With chants such as “Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight
for Texaco”, students across the United States protested on March 5 in
record numbers. Far exceeding the expectation of protest organisers, up
to 50,000
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BY SUE
BOLTON
Over the weekend of February 14-16, millions of people protested
against Washington's impending war on Iraq. The huge size of the anti-war
protests, and the fact that the big majority of people around the world
are opposed to
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East Timorese foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta's defence of Washington's
"aggressive strategy" towards Iraq is not a surprise. Horta's approach
to diplomacy throughout the struggle for East Timor's independence was
always based on offering assurances to the US government that an independent
East Timor would be friendly towards US interests. This approach was bound
to lead to major defects of memory (and analysis) once independence was
achieved. These defects are most evident in his article "War for peace?
It worked in my country", published in the Sydney Morning Herald
and the Age on February 25.
BY NORM DIXON
The Socialist Alliance on March 3 called on Greens, Australian Democrats and ALP senators to demonstrate their opposition to Australia's participation in a US war on Iraq by blocking supply when treasurer Peter Costello delivers the
BY
EMMA CLANCY
The March 5 student strike against war was a huge success, mobilising
around 30,000 students and young people across Australia as part of an
international day of student action to stop the impending war on Iraq.
Some elements
Student strike sets example to unions
In a magnificent display of conscience, irreverence and determination,
more than 30,000 students — largely from state and private high schools
— took to the streets around the country on March 5
ROME — On March 4, the general secretary of Funzione Pubblica CGIL (the public sector workers' union affiliate of the General Confederation of Italian Workers) announced that there would be a one-day public sector general strike on March 15,
Terry O'Shane,
chairperson of the Cairns Regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (ATSIC), spoke at the February 16 Cairns Peace Picnic. SUSAN
AUSTIN interviewed him for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
You are one of the many Indigenous
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — "Several times, a large area was coated white. After a couple of days the leaves in the forest and the gardens turned yellow and fell off." This is how 50-year-old Nguyen Van Loc describes his first vision of a US
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Explorer, Patrol, Land Cruiser, Discovery, Range Rover, Jackaroo — the names say
BY JON LAND
After lengthy negotiations spanning several years, the Coalition government has finally bullied East Timor into accepting the terms of the new Timor Sea treaty. Talks had stalled in recent months because of the Australian government's
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