Germany
Germany: Bremen school students strike!
On February 13, 7-9000 youth, most of them school students, demonstrated in Bremen against the war. In fact this was the first school students strike against the war on Iraq.
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Iraq
Iraq: No to war – Anti-war campaigning in Germany
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
Iraq: No to war – Australia – Melbourne kicks off anti-war weekend with huge protest
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
Iraq: No to war – Portugal – Union and anti-war protests shake right-wing government
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
Iraq: No to war – The arrogance of the US empire
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 […]
Iraq
No to war: The war train departs – updated
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
Iraq: No to war – South Africa – No to US imperialism’s war against Iraq
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 […]
Australia
Australia: Students set to strike against war…unions discuss industrial action…US navy dissent
The weekend beginning 14 February will see the biggest mobilisation of people demonstrating against war the world has ever seen. They are demonstrating against a proposed war on a devastated country where infant mortality is […]
Britain
Iraq: Britain – Special anti-war issue of The Socialist
FIFTEENTH OF FEBRUARY marks an historic day of anti-war protest worldwide. Never before have we seen a mass anti-war movement of this character before a war even starts. It is even bigger than the movement […]
Iraq
Iraq: No to war – Tens of thousands protest against NATO’s war drive
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 […]