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  1. Malaysian socialist to address January conference

    Alliance's national conference on behalf of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). She told ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly ... the anti-war movement, and in the mass campaign against the Internal Security Act β€” a draconian, ... address the public meeting to open the Socialist Alliance conference, at 7pm on January 2 at the ...

  2. IRAQ: 'Things are definitely not improving'

    counter-insurgency war in Iraq. "It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are ... officials. According to the September 30 Washington Post, US "officials, speaking on the condition of ... the official White House line, during a television interview broadcast on September 26 US Secretary of ...

  3. UNITED STATES: America's right turn?

    turned on the Iraq war β€” voting to authorise Bush's invasion, criticising it during the primaries, ... war. Nader and Camejo received just over 400,000 votes on November 2, according to the official count. ... failure cost the Democrats the presidency and four Senate seats on Tuesday." The right-wing ...

  4. Protest Bush's visit, occupation of Iraq

    Earth, the International Peace Pilgrimage, Women For Peace, the Geelong Anti War Coalition, Tim Gooden, ... BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE β€” The Victorian Peace Network (VPN) decided at its meeting on September ... with the October 25 march on Washington for weeks. A number of groups and individuals, including the ...

  5. The top seven reasons why Marx was right

    class's wealth and power passed on to their children. Women's unpaid labour in the home β€” cooking, ... been greater poverty on a world scale. Today, the richest 2000 people in Australia own more then the ... capitalist system is based on competition between different capitalists all trying to accumulate as much ...

  6. Arthur Miller: a principled playwright

    anti-communist Cold War orthodoxy that turned the war-time alliance with the Soviet Union on its head and ... (hb The FBI reviewers had no qualms about judging Arthur Miller's plays solely on their political ... FBI's disdain, and to our good fortune, the federal agents were indeed on to something, as Christopher ...

  7. Julia Gillard eager for a more dangerous world

    ban on uranium sales. Washington's other post-cold war obsessions demand the services of ... Iran. Suckling’s victims are today mostly ordinary men, women and children. On October 5, the Australian ... Springs. They called for a moratorium on all uranium mining and sales. Indigenous women made a special plea ...

  8. Pilger calls for 'constant and unrelenting mass action'

    refugees, many of them the result of the blockade on Iraq. Sending the SAS to prevent traumatised men, women ... towards the refugees". Describing the US military offensive after September 11 as "a war on ... expendable", Pilger called for "opposition to a so-called war on terrorism, that is really a war of ...

  9. El Salvador: β€˜Left win will empower us’, trade unionists say

    Workers & unions Economy Democracy Latin America & the Caribbean Emily B.R. Rodriguez On ... and intimidation. The images and names of their fallen comrades loomed on the walls behind them in ... but a referendum on an impressive array of new social programs the left-wing Farabundo Marti National ...

  10. Letters to the editor

    the right to religious freedom. With the war on terror being used to justify these anti-democratic ... Adelaide, SA Unite against racism On August 6, there was a rally against banning the burqa in ... Islamaphobia. Around 20 people attended the fascist rally, wearing T-shirts with β€œBan the Burqa” on the back. ...

  11. Mass protest β€” worth the effort?

    history, namely those against the Iraq war and Work Choices. Over the past decade increasing numbers have ... taken to the streets, in support of various movements such as anti-war, workers' rights, ... effort? Vietnam war In 2005, radical US intellectual Noam Chomsky wrote to students organising against the ...

  12. UNITED STATES: Socialists win election privacy fight

    of giving fed-up voters a real alternative to the pro-war Democrats". Averill is running on ... BY ALISON THORNE It was standing room only in the Federal Court on August 28. People had mobilised ... to hear Judge Robert Lasnik present his findings on a challenge by Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) ...

  13. Britain: People's Assemblies electrify anti-austerity movement

    Assembly meetings around the country to hear speakers like author Owen Jones, comic Mark Steel, anti-war ... expected. There were hundreds of first timers and the participants were incredibly mixed, though women ... predominated. β€œPeople are so angry and desperate for alternative ideas and arguments ― the workshop on ...

  14. Forum discusses threat to civil liberties

    of the raids, AMCRAN received reports of Muslim women being spat on and verbally abused by ... a terrorist attack. Kadous told the forum, organised by the Sydney Stop the War Coalition, that within hours ... the Sydney Stop the War Coalition. From ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly, November 30, 2005. Visit the ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ ...

  15. Oslo and the Israeli left

    groups such as Yesh Gvul and Women in Black, which went into retirement four years ago, emerge from their ... of "war room", from which they direct a campaign of demonstrations and assemblies across ... of the Hasmonean tunnel (by Netanyahu) was perhaps a political folly, but it was a national crime (on ...

  16. Howard uses One Nation blueprint

    election on the backs of the suffering and degradation of 438 innocent men, women and children who were on ... in Iraq on the pretence that there were weapons of mass destruction. That unleashed the global war ... spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would feed literally millions of starving people throughout ...

  17. 'Pure' science and Marxism

    Sutherland NSW [Edited for length.] T-shirt On the last day of the Network of Women Students Australia ... the message behind this T-shirt is misdirected. When abortion remains on the criminal code, when women ... it is by any accumulation of knowledge. In any case, this emphasis on "prediction" is ...

  18. After Catalan independence movement wins elections, Spanish state prepares new showdown

    untrustworthy. Caught in its war with the upstart Citizens, PP aggression has been intensifying on all fronts. ... women in uniform were alert and ready to defend the unity of their country. On January 8, PP general ... National liberation Democracy Elections Dick Nichols Barcelona The main war aim of the People’s ...

  19. LEBANON: Israel bombs again as deadline nears

    untrue. The Hizbullah attacks followed an earlier Israeli attack on Lebanon that killed two women ... latest round of bombings in Lebanon has raised concern about the possibility of a major war following the ... usual "justification" for the bombings β€” that it was in retaliation for rocket attacks on ...

  20. United States: A presidential race to the bottom between a misogynist and a corporate puppet

    He voted against paid parental leave and equal pay for women. He has backed harsh restrictions on ... presidential debate on problems with his microphone, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s candidacy ... went into the second debate on October 9 with Hillary Clinton needing the impossible β€” for millions of ...

  21. FSLN debates issues for May conference

    the debate in the women's forum will be taken to the congress". On March 19 the ... majority", which was printed in the newspaper Barricada on February 15 along with some 500 names in support. ... subtle form of violence. Group of 29 Grisby based the left's stand on last July's declaration ...

  22. Keneally gets lost in Ireland

    employment, to the claustrophobic hold of the conservative Catholic Church hierarchy on the people and ... of the Irish and Ireland's old world charm. History weighs heavily on the Irish and is evident ... the slide presentation of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Uprising on display in the Dublin General ...

  23. Activists oppose new refugee detention centre

    women and children in the community, but said the government should also treat the 400 men who will be ... suicide of Mohammed Asif Atay in Curtin detention centre on March 28 was the sixth known refugee to die in ...

  24. 'History happened to people'

    prejudice and social restrictions on individuals, particularly women, and explores her interest in ... Investigation Service, the political police of the day, added speculation about spying on the Woomera Rocket ... history through the eyes of Aborigines, convicts and women, the book was deemed to be insidiously ...

  25. Understanding Iraq

    $49.95 (hb) President George W. Bush's premature declaration on May 1 2003 that the Iraq war was ... soon scaled up from sporadic attacks on US soldiers to an organised insurgency. As in the Vietnam War ... conquest β€” Iraqi women sex-workers had written in lipstick on large mirrors above their hand basins anti-US ...

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