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  New Zealand

  New Zealand: Anti-war protest targets senior government minister

  April 16, 2003 Jon Coughlin, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin

  On Saturday, 12 April, at noon, a peace vigil was held in the centre of Dunedin, beginning a day of action in solidarity with similar anti-war protests and demonstrations in other parts of New Zealand [...]

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  Iraq

  Iraq: The chaotic aftermath of war

  April 16, 2003 CWI

  LAST WEEK, Bush and Blair were celebrating their ’victory’ over Iraq. But within a matter of hours it became clear that piecing Iraq back together again could prove much more difficult than the war itself.

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  Iraq

  Iraq: War and reconstruction – The lessons of the Balkans, Timor and Afghanistan

  April 16, 2003 Niall Mulholland, CWI

  Following its bloody conquest of Iraq, the US administration is now attempting to impose a ‘reconstruction’ plan on the broken country. But what does this mean for the working people of Iraq? Will they at [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: Half a million demonstrate in Rome

  April 15, 2003 Clare Doyle, CWI

  Half a million people demonstrated in bright Spring sunshine on the streets of Rome last Saturday, 12 April. A record-breaking peace banner in the colours of the rainbow – one kilometre long and 13 metres [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: March of the poor against war

  April 15, 2003 Henry Silke, Lotta per il socialismo, Catania

  On 12 April, about 300 people took part in a ‘people’s march’ against the war and occupation of Iraq, in Catania, Sicily.