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  1. Korea: the unfinished revolution

    bureaucratic socialist states, kept on edge by the US war machine in the south, which later brought in nuclear ... plans to step up the Cold War. General Chun Doo-hwan carried out a coup on May 17 with a US mandate to ... By Gim Joong-gen In the aftermath of counter-revolution and the 1950-53 war, southern Korea was ...

  2. GERMANY: Pre-existing 'grand coalition' now formalised

    Winfried Wolf, Berlin On October 10, a de facto decision was made to form a new federal coalition ... Social-democratic Party of Germany (SPD). If that also means a historic break in post-war German politics β€” as many ... government. From May 22, the battle for power was dominated by the gender question. On that day, after the SPD ...

  3. Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right

    and xenophobic Pauline Hanson has provided Australia's small and divided β€” sometimes warring ... tolerate an openly racist presence on the political spectrum and the Howard government lending ... (AAFI) and the Australian League of Rights (ALR)β€” were the first to jump on the Hanson band wagon and ...

  4. AFGHANISTAN: US-led occupation forces face growing armed resistance

    a profound setback for the US war on terrorism." The tribal warlordism of the 1990s was the result of ... a press conference in Rome on June 23. Lo Presti released an Amnesty report, Afghanistan Β— invisible and ... situation in the country makes it impossible for many Afghan refugees to return to their place of origin. On ...

  5. Letters to the Editor

    the supermarket, at work, in the bank, on the train, at uni, in the street. I'd like to see women ... Letters to the editor 'Holocaust' Jirri Booth's arguments (Write On, GLW #745) ... "the victims of Nazi genocide" are spurious. On February 29, Israeli deputy defence minister Matan ...

  6. Sri Lanka: Tamils rally in Jaffna against occupation, ethnic cleansing

    Jaffna, a city in theΒ north of Sri Lanka, on September 24,Β Tamilnet reported.Β The rally, supported by ... colonialism". The rallyΒ alsoΒ said: "Seven years after the end of the war, the North andΒ East remains ... against women and children, were condemned. The rallyΒ demanded that "the occupying forces immediately ...

  7. The system doesn’t offer young people a future

    core nations particularly, the future is painted as terrifying. War, terrorism, crime, mass ... immigration; all the products of external, terrifying and unknown forces- usually foreign and playing on ... and repress people through terror laws and the surveillance state. WHAT IS THE REALITY? If we take on ...

  8. Letters to the editor

    an Israel dangerously pursuing military action that will result in a war on all fronts. Dalal Oubani, ... misconduct against two Swedish women; a claim that he denies. An extradition hearing took place at the ... the extradition of Assange to Sweden. The outcome of the hearing was announced on February 24, when ...

  9. The romantics’ claws that may tear Pyne's vision-- investigating Shelley and Austen

    to the first born son), the Dashwood girls are dependent on catching a financially well-endowed ... essentially connected. Single women saddled with a child were socially doomed, with prostitution their only ... women from prostitution and oppression. Capitalism’s great promise is individual freedom, yet how could ...

  10. A case study in tyranny

    particular interest is the focus on the role of women and youth in the struggle. From the famous singer ... Apartheid Two part special on SBS Television screening Sunday, May 23, and May 30, 8.30 p.m. (8 ... their virtual genocide by, the settlers. Not much is said about the wars of defence waged by the Xhosa ...

  11. Not quite Brideshead

    Great Financial Crisis, where a woman can (almost) become US president and imperialist wars nibble at ... leading woman. On her marriage to the young, dashingly handsome John Whittaker, she travels with him to ... and a dysfunctional family. On one level, the film could be viewed as a purely personal study. Each of ...

  12. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Wolfowitz and imperial hubris

    thousands of women will die in childbirth and hundreds will be massacred on the killing fields of Iraq and ... Wolfowitz, reputedly the architect of the current Iraq War, is one more example of imperial hubris. Hubris, ... Windisch from Melbourne's Stop the War Coalition and a stalwart ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly distributor, told ...

  13. A mind-blowing success for the Red Shed

    masters of the war and the brutal soldiers who don't seem to be on any side and certainly aren't ... is about 12 victims of the Balkan civil war and the ways that they react to the turmoil and violence ... the same street as the women he is now raping for a job. This is the most peculiar and horrific ...

  14. To make Trump’s America ungovernable, African American struggles are key

    Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, are on board with Trump’s America. They ... Women’s Lives”. Native Americans have led the anti-pipeline protests at Standing Rock Reservation, ... city. Trump met with Black supporters on the first day of Black History Month. He praised the greatness ...

  15. US eye Darwin for base

    there have been problems. Recently there were three charged with sexual assault on two women... they are ... anti-war activists. During a tour of South East Asia in late January, US General Richard Meyers, ... been a lot of discussion going on between the Australian and US governments about the placing of US ...

  16. Selective mourning diminishes our humanity

    thousands of whom will be killed in any war on Iraq. It is the height of hypocrisy to condemn Saddam Hussein ... for terrorising his own people, using it as one of many arguments for a launching a war on Iraq, yet ... people perished at sea, the majority of them women and children. The sinking of SIEV-X was also an ...

  17. What the people want: troops out of Iraq!

    forces, while 34% want all US troops pulled out immediately. The US National Council for Research on Women ... reported on November 2 that its polling had found that 59% of US women voters and 48% of male voters said ... died in Iraq since the country was invaded on March 20, 2003, by US, British and Australian forces. No ...

  18. Sri Lankan workers fight 'free market' policies

    war is partly due to pressure on the government from Sinhalese chauvinist organisations, but is also ... of 300 women was sacked. All export industries are subject to essential services legislation, which ... from unions, womens groups and other organisations. Australian unions gave support. The workers were ...

  19. Grit in the eye of the bourgeoisie

    disaffected US Marines dismember a doll on stage during one of his performances. He opposed the Gulf War ... has not aged too kindly, Zappa's compositions stand tall on the barren commercial landscape of ... took his musical unconventionality into the realm of politics. He criticised the Vietnam War by having ...

  20. Che's revolutionary example

    Cuban revolutionary war and his failed Bolivia campaign that ended in his execution on October 9, 1967. ... Revolutionary War and Part II on The Bolivian Diaries. Sodebergh uses the naturalistic techniques of cinema ... The films are based directly on Che's own writings, Part I on Reminiscences of the Cuban ...

  21. The winds of change still blow

    the consequent civil war between supporters and opponents of the treaty. Through the experiences of ... the War of Independence. This was a guerrilla war against the British paramilitaries β€” the "Black ... and Tans" β€” British war veterans who were sent to Ireland to wipe out the Irish republican ...

  22. Homeless actors aim to get people talking

    audience finish it on their way home or over the weekend with their friends.” Todd is talking up Milk ... a very different thing than having the real conversation.” There are more than 100,000 people homeless on ... with mental health issues they tend to fall through the cracks and end up on the streets.” Homelessness ...

  23. PHILIPPINES: Opposition to US troops grows

    will take place in the midst of the long-running war on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, ... President Joseph Estrada in 2001. Furthermore, Labour against the War will be demonstrating on February 6, ... mobilisation on International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8. Β“The Peace Camp is also calling for IWD to be ...

  24. Australian Christians: Holy Spirit with only a right wing?

    Man's life on earth". Hating homosexuals and wanting to subordinate women, the Sydney Anglicans ... financially troubled because of it. As a leader of the campaign for the ordination of Anglican women, Porter ... is an expert on the Sydney Anglicans' theological wrinkles and reactionary politics. But, while ...

  25. How Big Money corrupted the people’s game

    – while only 13 imports across all teams took to the field on day one of the season just 25 years ago, now ... players pull on the jersey. What, asks the British journalist, James Montague, in The Billionaires’ Club: ... billion on top quality international players and the silverware has duly followed. Other EPL clubs have ...

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