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  1. Fidel Castro: 'How long shall we wait?'

    wait for this carnage to end? The Cold War is over but the arms race goes on and nuclear and military ... The following speech was given by Cuban president Fidel Castro on October 22, 1995 to the United ... a century ago, the United Nations Organisation was born after the conclusion of a monstrous war where an ...

  2. VIETNAM: The inspiration hasn't faded

    VIETNAM: The inspiration hasn't faded When, on April 30, 1975, a single tank of ... only ended a decades-long war, it also ended any idea of United States invincibility. The people of ... message dimmed? ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly spoke to four veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement about the ...

  3. IRAQ: What they don't want you to know

    attacked the anti-war movement for not joining Bush's "war on terror". He says "the ... John Pilger, London In a valedictory piece on December 30, the Guardian commentator and leader ... writer Martin Kettle wrote: "Opponents of the [Iraq] war may need to be reminded that public opinion ...

  4. The 'Holy Trinity' and the Third World

    World. The articles focus on the central role played by three global institutions β€” the International ... Monetary Fund, World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (which replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs ... enhancing the capitalist world order since second world war, especially since the big shake-up triggered by ...

  5. Socialists and how the vote was won

    class could take control of the state through the ballot-box and reconstruct it on a socialist basis. ... Wilhelm Liebknecht founded the Saxon People’s Party in Chemnitz on a democratic program that saw Bebel ... Association continued on after his death and his supporters merged the organisation with that of Bebel and ...

  6. Wikileaks rally speech: 'This is about us and them'

    war crimes and the unbridled assault on countries that challenge U.S. domination. And they show the ... [The following speech was delivered at the Sydney rally in defence of Wikileaks on December 14 by ... comment on the rights and wrongs of the case against Assange, because the fact is we don’t know. This ...

  7. Letters to the editor

    revealed in the excerpts from the Greens’ Adam Brandt in his contribution to the debate on the war in ... contributed some way in the β€œDebate” on war farce which Pip Hinman writes more vigorously about elsewhere in ... support and encourages government war policy. They are easily regarded as simply letting the public have ...

  8. Edgar Snow: a star that still blazes

    and Malaya, and a trio of Russian women guerillas Snow met in Smolensk during World War II. Hundreds ... popular, Snow was vilified as a "communist stooge" during the Cold War and his writings pilloried ... worked 13 hours a day. Unlike the KMT-controlled parts of Shensi province, 65% of income did not go on ...

  9. SBS remembers the sixties

    in the 1960s. The first episode concentrates on black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, who ... β€” A special on the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara. This British documentary may prove to be of ... Washington's war against Vietnam and its interaction with the other radical movements. It also examines how the ...

  10. Israeli president's visit met with protests

    Louise Moran, Canberra On March 2, rows of Israeli flags lined Commonwealth Avenue to signify the ... International Women's Peace Service. Bullimore, who is also a member of the Socialist Alliance, described ... Sue Wareham from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Reverend Gregor Henderson, ...

  11. Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan

    By Eva Cheng The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US soldiers on September ... have arrest warrants issued against them on September 8, but were able to avoid arrest. They were ... countries since World War II. Under the agreement, Japanese jurisdiction does not apply to members of the US ...

  12. An inspiring tale from Australia's radical past

    heat was on in the class war. "This is the Communist way", continued the building bosses, ... bosses who had borrowed heavily at high rates. The NSW BLF went on the offensive, winning ... in support of a women's studies course at the University of Sydney. The NSW BLF supported ...

  13. PAKISTAN: WSF unites against military, fundamentalism

    opening ceremony or at seminars on political Islam, globalisation and war, the attendance was huge. But ... TerraViva on March 26. "While I don't like to damp down enthusiasm, expectations should not be ... NGOs, made for a potent mix of radical politics and activity. The discussions on socialism and what was ...

  14. Suspicious fire at the Brisbane Resistance Centre

    By Zanny Begg BRISBANE β€” At around midnight on August 24, residents of a house on the premises of ... the Resistance Centre were woken by the sound of a heavy object landing on the roof, followed by ... More ominously, a group of skinheads stood outside making jokes about throwing popcorn on the blaze, ...

  15. The rise of the documentary: a preview of the Melbourne International Film Festival

    the "war on terror". Mademoiselle and the Doctor is a film by Janine Hosking, tracing the ... documentaries are bringing people back to cinemas. As the Melbourne Age 's Larissa Dubecki wrote on May 11: ... were...last night trounced by an ABC documentary on the rise and mysterious demise of Alexander the ...

  16. Hugo Throssell, V.C. β€” a red Anzac

    First World War experience, holding up the "diggers" as models of conservative virtue. They ... welfare β€” they just got on with the job (supposedly) of defending Australia and the British Empire. During ... Gallipoli and other theatres became anti-war pacifists and/or socialists as a result of their experiences. ...

  17. Message from Irish prisoner

    Branch) by MARY MCARDLE, an Irish Republican prisoner of war in Maghaberry jail in occupied Ireland. We ... the women POW s of Maghaberry Gaol would like to send solidarity greetings to those people in ... in these British-occupied counties. As you well know in a war where only one side gets to tell its ...

  18. IRAQ: US arrests unemployed activists

    BY ROHAN PEARCE On November 23, US soldiers in Baghdad arrested Kasim Hadi and Adil Salih. Hadi ... of the group. On November 26, the UUI stated: "Because of the American invasion of Iraq, ... country. The US war against Iraq has nothing to do with human rights, weapons of mass destruction or the ...

  19. Sri Lanka: the untold story

    By Carla Gorton SYDNEY β€” A seminar, organised by the neethi forum at Sydney University on May 16, ... to self-determination, and Mano Navaratnam from Melbourne, who spoke about the economic embargo on ... the Tamil homeland and the role of women in the Tamil struggle. Ana Pararajasingham, editor of Tamil ...

  20. Hundreds pay tribute to union legend

    performance of "La Paloma" β€” an old Spanish civil war song β€” on a mouth organ brought the house ... Chris Williams Wollongong About 200 people attended a tribute dinner on October 17 to unionist and ... Fred Moore's humorous and inspiring speeches would always convince us to struggle on." He ...

  21. Speak-out slams racism

    inner-suburban West End on September 26. Gary McLennan, Queensland University of Technology lecturer and ... health care. She called for the restoration, and expansion, of services to women. Andy Gianniotis, who ... "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are at war with Pauline Hanson and her racist policies", ...

  22. March for peace in Bosnia

    Croatians marched through Sydney streets on June 8. As a result of two months of Serbian aggression against ... Bosnia-Hercegovina and the previous war against Croatia, there are now 1.5 million refugees, many deliberately driven ... Olovcic, the president of the Australian Croatian and Muslim Women's Association of Bosnia, ...

  23. Catalonia: People’s power wins out as Spanish state plots revenge

    stations. This was a World War II Resistance-style operation, involving storing the boxes on the other side ... involved veterans of the Civil War β€” men and women at least 95-years-old who had survived horrors like the ... 1 referendum on independence shows it is: all you need is a mobilised people with a clear view of where they ...

  24. Socialism for the new millennium conferences

    University, spoke on the political currents in contemporary Indonesian politics. Nick Fredman, DSP organiser ... followed on the struggle for freedom in East Timor, featuring East Timorese community activist Alfonso ... Everett. A feature panel on the lessons of the MUA struggle heard from Dick Nichols, DSP national ...

  25. BRITAIN: Socialist Alliance targeted as press sees red

    prostrate ally of the US in its "war on terrorism", public opinion has been sharply divided, with ... had very few young people in attendance and a small proportion of women. However, on the very evening ... BY PHIL HEARSE LONDON β€” On January 28-29, 2500 workers at South West Trains, which daily brings ...

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