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BY ROHAN PEARCE On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US protests
BY ROHAN PEARCE For those who expected the US-led invasion forces in Iraq to be welcomed with open arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis protested against the US occupation of Iraq,
On May 1, the day of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate activists, unionists and peace campaigners will be taking to the streets of cities around Australia to oppose the corporate looting of Iraq and to protest against the First
BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — The Canadian state, at all levels, has responded to anti-war demonstrations and direct actions with an escalation of its campaign of harassment and criminalisation of activists. In Toronto, two large anti-war actions
There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The
BY EVA CHENG The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
BY NORM DIXON "The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
BY DOUG LORIMER While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops
BY NEIL SAMMONDS The world's most efficient “secret” manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria — it is Washington's closest ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel. In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace Various artists Order a copy of listen to sample tracks at <http://www.indie-cds.com> No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting collection of
BY JIM MCILROY Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Jewish Dawn Cohen (Write On, GLW #534) equates anti-Zionism with being anti-Jewish, and thus denies the anti-war movement the right to attack Israel's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the