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Iraq: 15 February – France – Growing anti-war mood sees 300,000 demonstrate in Paris

February 16, 2003 CWI online spoke to Alex Rouillard in Rouen

In the last three days of last week the anti-war mood in France snowballed. If asked in the week before the demonstration, most political activists would have said that 150,000 would demonstrate in Paris. It […]

Iraq: 15 February – Germany – 500,000 protest in Berlin

February 16, 2003 Sascha Stanicic, Berlin

Saturday saw the biggest anti-war demonstration in Germany for decades. Five hundred thousand from all over the country took to the streets of Berlin and paralysed the historical area from Alexanderplatz in the East of […]

Iraq: 15 February – Greece – Biggest demonstrations in 25 years

February 16, 2003 30 cities march

Yesterday, as all over the world, Greece saw enormous anti war demonstrations.

Iraq: No to war – Australia – Melbourne kicks off anti-war weekend with huge protest

February 14, 2003 CWI Online, London

Media estimates put the number of anti-war demonstrators in central Melbourne today (14 February) at between 100,000 to 200,000. Organisers are quoted as saying the demonstration was well over the 200,000 mark.

Iraq: No to war – Portugal – Union and anti-war protests shake right-wing government

February 14, 2003 Francisco, Lisbon

One week after 60,000 workers and youth went onto the streets of Lisbon as part of a struggle for jobs, decent wages and to stop the bosses’ offensive, many thousands of workers and youth we […]

Iraq: No to war – The arrogance of the US empire

February 14, 2003 Tony Saunois, London, CWI

Colin Powell presented his speech to the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003. On the same day, according to the Spanish daily El Pais (14 February 2003), at the UN headquarters, an incident occurred […]

No to war: The war train departs – updated

February 14, 2003 International Secretariat of the CWI 12 February 2003.

Tony Benn, the veteran British socialist, described the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its coverage of Iraq as a "weapon of mass deception". This could be applied with equal if not greater force to Colin […]

Iraq: No to war – Anti-war campaigning in Germany

February 14, 2003 Sascha Stanicic, Berlin

The latest opinion poll by the weekly magazine ‘Stern’ says that 71 percent of Germans are opposed to the war. Local demonstrations of up to 10,000 are taking place on an almost daily basis. Last […]

Iraq: No to war – Tens of thousands protest against NATO’s war drive

February 13, 2003 Franz, Vienna

Members of the SLP (Sozialistiche LinksPartei, Austrian section of the CWI)- and ISR-comrades from Vienna and Salzburg joined German CWI and ISR members in the SAV and ’WI!’ (International Resistance), in the anti-war and anti-Nato […]

Iraq: No to war – South Africa – No to US imperialism’s war against Iraq

February 13, 2003 Published by Izwi la basebenzi, Democratic Socialist Movement - Committee for A Workers International (South Africa)

With 220 000 US and British troops (including a quarter of the British army) surrounding Iraq, 300 US warplanes on airfields to its north and south, and a stockpile of 6 700 satellite-guided and 3 […]

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