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1. IRAQ: US occupation assists Islamist takeover

   a US freelance journalist and well-known pro-war blogger, who had reported from Iraq since late 2003, ... threw the spotlight on the operation of US-backed Islamist death squads in Iraq. Vincent, who virulently ... Angeles Times article on Vincent's killing reported that a witness recognised "one of the ...

2. OUR COMMON CAUSE: Queers need fighting unions!

   Help! The Coalition government is hell-bent on destroying any opposition to its neo-conservative, ... homophobic, war-mongering, business-first agenda. They want to silence organisations that have defended ... building and mining. He plans to force as many workers as possible on to Australian Workplace Agreements ...

3. ‘No working person should be allowed to struggle alone’

   was originally called International Working Women’s Day. We look back on the history of struggle and ... the Unions NSW May Day toast at the Cypress Community Club in Stanmore on April 28. ... * * * I acknowledge we meet tonight on the traditional land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and pay my ...

4. Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal

   "insurgents". In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name. Edward S Herman's landmark ... an organised and systematic way rests on 'normalisation'", wrote Herman. "There ... brutalising and killing done by one set of individuals... others working on improving technology (a better ...

5. Sri Lanka: Tamils 'still want independent state'

   fiefdom bent on annihilating all Tamil opposition. He smashed the ceasefire, and took warring advice and ... Seek prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 8. Protect the equality of women ... Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), told me recently in New York. “And because the war crimes and severe ...

6. Venezuela: The opposition’s destructive tactics

   have been waging an economic war similar to that perpetrated against former Chilean president Salvador ... of “regime change” while the economic war has continued to destabilise the country. Henry Ramos ... Allup, the new president of the National Assembly, announced on his inauguration that they would oust the ...

7. Julian Assange's latest book skewers Google

   popular on the internet — to the war effort, inserting a line below the search box reading 'Live! ... Schmidt's then-partner Lisa Shields, a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Scott Malcomson, ... a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and Jared Cohen, who had moved to Google after serving ...

8. Australians demand freedom for condemned Sheikh

   This speech was given by Tony Iltis of Socialist Alliance to a rally in Melbourne on November 8, ... calling on the Saudi government to free dissident Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr. Al-Nimr is a popular Shia ... arrest was issued soon after. On July 8, 2012 he was arrested in an “exchange of gunfire” with police and ...

9. Past education campaign lessons for today

   from the Vietnam War. Students were not only shocked by the disturbing images of the war on the TV news ... Alliance member and student protester during the 1960s Jim McIlroy said the Vietnam War and the ... movement at the time was quite small, with the largest group on campus being the Democratic Labour Party. ...

10. Japanese oppose US bases

    a Okinawan schoolgirl on September 4. Teachers' unions, women's and peace bodies, as well as over ... an demonstration in Okinawa, Japan, on October 22 to demand the end of US military bases. This ... 170 local electoral assemblies, joined the protests. The suspects were surrendered on September 29, ...

11. Afghanistan: Why Australia should get out

    in 1992, they turned on each other in a devastating civil war. When the Taliban, who represented the ... cosmetics. Another justification for the occupation is the "war on drugs". This is particularly ... with the US, possibly the only time in history that any government has taken the US "war on ...

12. Letters to the editor

    Australian people to have their say on this country's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. The people ... war effort could be used much more profitably for foreign aid purposes in Afghanistan. A plebiscite on ... Letters to the editor Hollowing out the asylum seeker ‘debate’ On July 5, while waiting for my ...

13. Shiela Rowbotham and the 1960s

    1960s generation, veterans from a tumultuous decade when multitudes of people dreamt and acted on dreams ... — sometimes hippie — surfer on the sixties' waves of change, in her new book which defends the political ... working class, challenge the murderous US war in Vietnam — let alone introduce socialism into England ...

14. John Pilger: Bush's Vietnam

    showcase improvements, the situation of Afghan women and children remains desperate. The token woman in ... presence in a week. On the day I left Kabul, a car bomb exploded on the road to the airport, killing four ... the air; human flesh lay on the roadside. When British soldiers arrived to "seal off" the ...

15. The gentleman conservative as socialist

    opposition to birth control — not, for the Malthusian Wells, on the grounds of women's right to control ... utopia was on another planet from Lenin and other "tiresome class-war fanatics" who continue to ... "free of war, pestilence and malaise, famine and poverty", and which led him to an audience with ...

16. Ten reasons why population control can't stop climate change

    population growth rates in the Third World are a consequence of dire poverty and restrictions on women ... measures we can take to combat climate change is to sharply reduce the number of humans on the planet. This ... wrongly focuses on treating one symptom of an irrational, polluting system rather than dealing with the ...

17. Socialist candidates: 'Roll back privatisation!'

    already rich, and hardship for the rest of us", Bertuleit said on February 14. "Too many people ... cause the problems and shift the cost on to working people. It is up to the people to resist the ... has first-hand knowledge of the terrible impact of the federal Coalition government's attacks on ...

18. Looking out: Hunger

    sharing 620 miles of common border, these two countries are making war upon one another, with Ethiopia ... being the more aggressive. What an absurd waste of energies. Hundreds of men, women and children are ... you! Just who do you think you are? Waging war while hunger kills anew! Have you no memory of ...

19. More than flower power

    on one last spree before his induction into the army to fight in Vietnam. The hippy Tribe, led by ... a sexual athlete called Berger, set out to liberate his thinking on sex, drugs, race and authority. It ... attention is paid to communicating gently. The emphasis is on confronting prejudices: within the first few ...

20. Loose cannons

    individual men and women across the country, so that they in turn identify with us." — From Agenda for ... President George Bush elaborating his dream of turning the trade war into World War III. Definitely not ... lying to get your vote." — Maine "credit counsellor" Terry Delaire on US presidential ...

21. People are not the problem

    arguments obviously concern more than that one article, and I would like to comment on a few of her points ... Left Weekly "would prefer that Third World women remain barefoot and pregnant all their ... status of women (in all countries) is a priority. Goldie's distortion here is comparable to an ...

22. Refugees describe Serbian terror

    south-eastern Croatia. They were among the people who told their story at a press conference here on June 22 to ... launch Refugee Week. According to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, there are 17 million ... a day in a year of fighting. More than 650,000 refugees are being looked after in war-torn Croatia. They ...

23. 'Terrorist' hysteria breeds racism

    justify the hugely disproportionate "collateral damage" of the war on Afghanistan, where more ... behind his plans for a war on Iraq. Using the same anti-terrorism hysteria, Howard is trying hard to win ... prejudice is a government which can convince us to go to war with another country, it can declare war on ...

24. Pro-pokie campaign not worth a punt

    un-Australian. So naturally I went home and investigated the matter, ready to go off to war against those evil ... assault on society. What is actually being proposed is not a 1984-style assault on our civil liberties. ... no one is trying to stop me putting a tenner on the Bulldogs for the footy on Saturdays (although the ...

25. Lessons from the militant past

    headed by John D Rockefeller Jr, the richest man in the world, declared war on the United Mine Workers ... 308 pages, $39.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON In the middle of rush-hour on a Saturday morning in ... and Dime store in Michigan, Detroit, blew a shrill blast on his whistle and yelled, “Strike, girls, ...

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