Changing the topic from the urgent question of turning the mass anti- war sentiment into a mass movement, it is worthwhile looking at an example of where the...
After the first Gulf War, 10 yrs ago, UN weapons inspectors did their best to uncover any useful weapons that Iraq had. The UN brief at that time was to...
Thu, Jan 30 2003 5:13 PM AEDT Crean tells SA Labor defector to quit seat A South Australian Labor MP who has quit the party for the Greens has been told by the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHAT: "Claims and Evaluations of Iraq's Proscribed Weapons" WHO: Glen Rangwala (lecturer in politics at Cambridge University, co-author...
This development could really gather momentum in this political climate. In a few days the UN Security Council is probably going to be bullied into permitting...
Thursday, 30 January 2003 Brown Welcomes Hanna Greens Senator Bob Brown says South Australian state MP Kris Hanna has shown great political courage in leaving...
Published on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 by the Globe & Mail/Canada: U.S. Expected to Attack Iraq Within Weeks by Timothy Appleby A U.S.-led military force is...
Below is the last part of Bush's State of the Union speech, just delivered. Bush sets this timetable: "The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to ...
Unfortunately if Crean was in power I believe he would talk the same stance as Howard has. This backtracking could be seen as Crean and the labor party...
Firstly Simon Crean stated that he opposes war on Iraq without the approval of the UN Security Council, but then backtracks and say's that they may support it...
Regular Green Left Weekly correspondent on Indonesian affairs, Max Lane, has been very active in the Indonesia media over the last two weeks. In his words: ...
Christian Science Monitor, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Antiwar Movement Swells, Still Searching for Its Voice Polls show shrinking support for unilateral US...
Hi all, ... Funny you should mention that. I'm in the middle of writing an article about a couple of anti-war demos that happened on the weekend. One was in...
Blix lauds South Africa for its efforts in disarming. But as the South African ambassador to the UN said right after Blix's report it took inspectors TWO YEARS...
Below are extracts from Blix's report today. It seems to fault Iraq for not being enthusiastic about the UN inspection regime. Iraq is cooperating with the...
This report of an antiwar demo of 5000 in Pittsburgh on Sunday has lots of colour and gives an indication of the depth of antiwar sentiment in the US. In...
The letter below in the latest issue of Green Left Weekly from Dave Bell, an official of the NSW Greens is another indication of the important opening for the...
Over the last week Green Left Weekly distributers around the country registered a sharp rise in the political temperature, GLW sales were up (Green Left...
Peter Boyle in kicking off this list recommended activists read or re-read Fred Halstead's Out Now about the anti-Vietnam war movement. Another great book of...
Ben Courtice wrote: "While I am sure not every section of the US ruling class supports Bush, nevertheless he is the one in power, and has a real base of...
While the DSP has abandoned its schedule to subsume into the Socialist Alliance, building the SA is still a major priority both for it and those unaligned who...
This is forwarded from www.marxmail.org I thought it might be interesting -- it really shows what the war is all about. Ben Courtice /From/: Jacob Levich...
... During the 1990/91 Gulf War "process" the UN imprimatur legitimised the war despite its shallow rationale -- the invasion of Kuwait. Similarly the UN's ...
Such thoughts are nice however I would be very careful about assuming such things as Douglas Hawthorne's comments that: In summary, there appears to be a...
Is the Pentagon sabotaging Bush's drive for war in the gulf by going slow on deployment? I ask this question because I found this article, "Invasion forces...
This is a good idea. I've found the discussion list approach as practiced by the CPGB (and their journal, Weekly Worker) quite a useful way to explore issues....
A publication like Green Left Weekly really comes into its own at times like the present when we have supposedly democratic governments rushing into an unjust...