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Iraq: Day X – Australia
As the bombs started falling on Baghdad on March 20, over 50,000 people gathered spontaneously in Melbourne, Australia, for the first of many rallies to come.
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Iraq: Day X – Belgium
Tens of thousands joined in Day X protests in Belgium. The Linkse Socialistische Partij/Mouvement pour une alternative Socialiste (LSP-MAS), the Belgian section of the CWI, played a key role in all the biggest demonstrations. It […]
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Iraq: Day X – Canada
The first full day of the war saw protest actions throughout Toronto. A vigil has been set up at the peace fountain in front of Toronto City Hall and will be maintained throughout the conflict.
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Iraq: Day X – Australia
Approximately 20,000 people lined the streets of Sydney just 3 hours after war was officially declared on Thursday (March 20), demanding Australian troops be withdrawn immediately and Liberal Prime Minister Howard end his slavish support […]
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Iraq: Day X – Working people and youth of the world protest against outbreak of war
War has started. The US led imperialist assault against the people of Iraq means huge destruction and the loss of many lives. A high tech capitalist superpower is indiscriminately attacking a people already subjected to […]
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Iraq: Day X – Where next for the anti-war movement?
SO THE ’liberation’ of the Iraqis is beginning – with massive carpet bombing. The US military have planned to use ten times the amount of bombs dropped in the whole of the last Gulf War […]
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Iraq: Stop the war in Iraq – Thousands march in New Zealand
ON 15 March there was a new wave of anti-war action in New Zealand, mainly in South Island. In Christchurch, about 3,000 took part in a march against the war.
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Iraq: Day X – Sweden, 1,000 students strike in Umeå
March 20 saw around 1,000 school students participate in a strike and midday demonstration in Umeå in northern Sweden.
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Iraq: Stop the war in Iraq – Big turnout at Brazilian university to hear socialist case against war
The CWI in Brazil, Socialismo Revolucionario (SR), held a very successful public meeting earlier this week on the war on Iraq at the University USP, in San Carlos, in the State of Sao Paulo. Over […]
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Iraq: Stop the war in Iraq – Spontaneous school walkouts in Britain
Socialist Party member, Steve Bush, describes a spontaneous school strike against war that took place yesterday in the town of Tiverton in Devon, England.