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The view from the streets in 1917: βFor a general strike against autocracyβ
women workers on March 8 (February 23), more than 200,000 striking workers marched into the centre of ... Russian Revolution View from the streets A hundred years ago, on March 12 (February 27 according ... Petrograd. Large numbers of students and middle-class professionals joined the demonstrations on March 10 ...
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Justice for the 'historically irrelevant'
"the British are coming" single-handedly saved the American revolutionary war for independence. It ... make us defer to, and be de-radicalised by, their monopoly on "politics". As Raphael writes, ... the start of the revolutionary war, but this timing relegates to near-oblivion the actual outbreak of ...
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Looking out: Past and present?
government. Korean women, forced into prostitution by Japan during World War II, were compensated as ... patients for back problems related to carrying too much weight on their backs. Furthermore, the patients ... say to the Black man on death row? The Black mother, alone, bitter, overburdened, and spent? Who tells ...
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SCOTLAND: Marxists build united voice for socialism
because women are very receptive to our political campaigns. They are more strongly anti-war, and some of ... elections in Scotland and politics around the world will be the pending war on Iraq. The SSP has and will ... opinion polls for elections to the Scottish parliament, which puts it on par with the Conservative Party. ...
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Iranians discuss democracy movement
Pip Hinman Thirty people at a July 6 meeting hosted by the Sydney Stop the War Coalition heard ... from Sara Poya, an Iranian-Australian anti-war activist and researcher, and Mansour Razaghi, from the ... media described. "Women in full chador, others in half veils, and unions, were all there β¦ Just ...
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Censorship mars Harmony Day march
march included migrant groups, suburban groups, anti-war group Women in Black, the Liquor, Hospitality ... government-organised Harmony Day march through Melbourne on July 12. People responded positively to the ... government's call to demonstrate opposition to racism and support for multiculturalism. Contingents on the ...
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SUDAN: Darfur's 'human-made' disaster
has gained international attention. For well over a year, with all eyes on talks to end the civil war ... of that identity, have been engaged in what they call a "war on the blacks". Darfur's ... 6 million people are now displaced by war and whose lives are at serious risk as the rainy season begins, ...
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IRAQ: The Iraqi left and the resistance
left should defend women's rights, and oppose attacks on these rights by Islamists, but he ... concentrates on issues such as the gap between rich and poor, unemployment, women's rights and youth ... Kurdistan (PUK), Arman explained. These parties have fought wars against each other in the past, but have ...
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Nepal: How to oust a king
the People's War. The elections where finally held on April 10, in a very tense atmosphere. ... It's horrendous childhood mortality rate is on par with Iraq and the Palestinian West Bank. According ... drops as low as 35% for women. Nepal was ruled by as an absolute monarchy until 1951. In the 1940s ...
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'Troops out' rallies mark fake hand-over
forces remain in Iraq gave further weight to the anti-war movement's focus on forcing the troops to ... and march, reports Simon Butler. Dave Burgess, who painted "No war" on the Sydney Opera ... Kerryn Williams, Sydney SYDNEY β Rallies took place around the country on June 30 to "Bring ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: A 'warm' welcome for Powell
war on Mozambique after 1975; and Republican US President Ronald Reagan's "constructive ... forced to spend an extra hour hemmed in the University of Witwatersrand campus by demonstrators on June ... campus, on occasion ripping down posters critical of US foreign policy. A student was also ...
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NUS and the student left
phony "war on terrorism" was drafted. A heavily amended version was ultimately adopted by the ... conference. The anti-war caucus demonstrated on a modest scale that a politically principled left intervention ... concluded in a frustrating farce. On December 13 the "left"-ALP National Organisation of Labor ...
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What Resistance Stands For: Can we have democracy under capitalism?
resources and markets. It was not the madness of President George W. Bush that fuelled the war on Iraq, but ... We live in a world dominated by war, racism, poverty and environmental destruction. We are told ... world's people live in dire poverty, while a tiny minority squander unprecedented wealth. War is ...
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'Scholarly' rationale for censorship
security and the new world order. The conference will also be treated to a paper on the Gulf War and the ... By Harry Van Moorst Those of us who were dismayed at the outrageous media coverage of the Gulf War ... 3 to 5, the first International Conference on "Defence and the Media in Time of Limited ...
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Choose life, choose to resist
imprisoning the victims of those wars when they seek refuge on our shores. Detention denotes guilt, but the ... 100,000 Iraqis that died in the war that Western governments waged. A soldierβs death is tragic and ... unnecessary, but so too is the genocide that took place under false pretenses. I am not okay with the wars our ...
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Bob Brown wins High Court case, but door still open to laws targeting protesters
βsafe access zonesβ to protect women attending abortion clinics. These laws had been put on hold while ... Court ruled on October 18 by a 6:1 majority in favour of Bob Brown and Jessica Hoytβs challenge to the ... which had run a significant part of its campaign on a promise to βrebuildβ Tasmaniaβs forestry industry. ...
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Asia-Pacific solidarity boosted by conference
held on March 29-April 1 at Sydney Boys High School. The conference attracted more than 750 people. ... especially those against war, racism, corporate globalisation and national oppression. The conference was ... Acehnese Peoples Democratic Front; the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan; Krishok ...
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Egypt: 'The revolution must go to Palestine'
classmates in downtown Cairo for the Third Palestine Intifada rally on May 15. The day marks al-Nakba ... occupation. The first round of demonstrations were on May 13 outside the Israeli Embassy, where warning shots ... up, we will never stop fighting, we will never die until Palestine is free!β Men, women and children ...
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Looking out: Up in smoke
display. I wonder what the men, women and children who subsist hungry and homeless on those cities' ... right before his eyes must have been compelling sights indeed. War has an ineffable character that ... war, the celebration of it is a revered custom, demonstrated in yearly memorials by most Americans. War ...
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Democratic Socialist Party holds final congress
imperialism's war on Iraq, the massive anti-war movement that mobilised tens of millions of protesters around ... members and supporters in the trade unions, around federal and state election campaigns, and the anti-war ... thousands of militant workers. The Socialist Alliance's influence has also grown in the anti-war ...
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US soldiers: Iraq massacre not exception
in Iraq. However, on May 20 US group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) issued a statement that ... real treatment for PTSD." "Vietnam Veterans Against the War have been working on this for 40 ... "We have spent US$440 billion on a war on Iraq to brutalise and destroy our own people at the same ...
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How Australia steals East Timor's oil
on the former Portuguese colony in recent decades. The Portuguese had a presence in Timor from 1509, ... for its war machine. The East Indies had plenty and Japan saw the Portuguese colony as an access point ... airline service to Dili. When the Pacific war began in 1941 and Japanese forces swept across Asia, fear ...
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Statement of solidarity with East Timor
solidarity, trade union, peace, women's and church representatives, supervise the referendum on ... terror gangs! Indonesian army out of East Timor! Self-determination now! We oppose the war against the ... International pressure on the Habibie regime has to be stepped up, however, in the light of the activities of ...
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What if capitalism eliminated hunger? Adam Roberts' stimulating sci fi novel investigates
near future on Earth, a simple one-dose drug enables human beings to directly absorb solar energy ... Hair provides enough energy to sustain life, but pregnant women need additional energy to carry their ... their womenβs desire to have babies into many years of grunt-hard work; the women do it to stockpile ...
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Solidarity, not patriotic xenophobia
on Iraq to defend its oil supply and the war on Serbia. But the whipped up hysteria about ... Editorial @box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World ... β such as the families of Acehnese buried in mass graves, Afghani women killed for trying to get a job, ...