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  1. Tariq Ali: The case for withdrawal from Afghanistan

    of this war Mrs Bush and Mrs Blair appeared on numerous TV and radio shows claiming that the aim of ... the war was to liberate Afghan women. Try repeating that today and the women will spit in your face. ... Union mission. On February 26 there was an attempted assassination of US Vice-President Dick Cheney by ...

  2. Chechnya carnage continues

    Russian Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. On International Women's Day, March 8, members of this ... Grozny, in the space of two hours. Now the Russian authorities know better. The brief war through which ... republic has brought Yeltsin's own regime to the brink of ruin. An assault on Grozny at new year was ...

  3. PALESTINE: Villagers fight for olive groves

    forces. The residents of Salfit are trying to save thousands of olive trees, on which their livelihoods ... arrested, injured or hospitalised. According to Hannah Mermelstein from the International Women's Peace ... Service, which works in the West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly fired on peaceful ...

  4. CANADA: Anti-poverty activists clash with police

    house" and "Stop the war on the poor, make the rich pay". Three hundred riot police on horses ... here on June 15, saying they should be allowed to address the provincial legislature about poverty and ... month on the streets of Toronto. The demonstration was sponsored by the Ontario Coalition Against ...

  5. The politics of masculinity

    are progressive, questioning the current forms of masculinity as both oppressive to women and ... results of the growing research on the issues. The burst of publicity has brought back obsolete ideas ... campaign to roll back the rather limited advances against discrimination made by women and gay men in the ...

  6. A confused critique of capitalism

    slave market in which these women are put on the auction block. This is gut-wrenching reading but her ... 2008 292 pages, $29.95 (pb) I was attracted to this book after hearing Loretta Napoleoni on ABC radio ... on June 2. In a short, punchy talk she made the most astonishing attacks on modern capitalism. There ...

  7. Socialist Summer School energises activists for a busy year

    Alliance, the event was held at Sydney University's Women's College from January 4-7. Some 210 ... heard plenary talks given by leaders of the DSP and Resistance on a number of key problems of the ... struggle for socialism. "What is Marxism?"; "War, revolution and imperialism"; ...

  8. ZIMBABWE: Socialists challenge government repression

    can be arrested and imprisoned for up to three years. On February 14, Valentine's Day, 70 women ... protest began. The women were banging on pots and pans and giving roses to passersby. Police dressed in ... business, trade union rights, opposition to the war on Iraq, a shorter working week with no loss in pay, the ...

  9. Letters to the editor: Feminist chants are a valuable tradition

    disempowering in its ideological emptiness, as was the lack of a clear focus on women's rights in the ... women and their supporters demanding an end to violence against women, and to the sexism and misogyny ... Laurel Weldon, a key factor in reducing violence against women is strong feminist movements. For these ...

  10. Kick the Liberals out!

    continue the Howard government's support for Washington's ruthless war on the people of ... expensive for women to work full-time and raise children. Those dependent on the single parent pension have ... BY ALISON DELLIT As gut-wrenching as it will be, on November 10 either Prime "Menzies" ...

  11. Ecology: the ultimate class issue

    By Gerry Harant After the end of World War II, everybody predicted that the capitalist economic ... heaters, anti-pollution gear, radios and so on; but this in no way explains why there should be so little ... some 20-25% on new car prices, as economy of scale goes down the gurgler. More and more lavish ...

  12. Pirates: proletarian outlaws seeking liberty

    otherwise novel and egalitarian social order, however, women were not always welcome on the pirate ship. ... support for the view that the pirates dared to imagine, and dared to live, a different life founded on ... labour surplus (after naval demobilisation following the end of the latest of England's many wars ...

  13. Humphrey McQueen: Don’t let lying dogs sleep over Assange, Ecuador

    Swedish authorities. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ journalist Ash Pemberton writes on these issues in a ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ here. We ... apologise if any readers concluded that McQueen's arguments reflected ΒιΆΉΣ³»­'s views on this ... matter. We note McQueen is not the only supporter of Assange to make similar comments on the rape ...

  14. Victory for the refugee-rights movement

    Afghanistan, Australia's role β€” part of the US-led "war on terror" β€” hasn't improved ... for the "war on terror" is creating second-class citizens β€” Muslims and people of Middle ... Sydney on June 20, World Refugee Day. The following is an abridged version of his speech. This year, the ...

  15. Spain: Two-party system in trouble

    women’s right to abortion and make religious instruction a school subject on the same level as ... success of these initial moves, the Aznar strategy could then advance on further war aims ― aggression ... during a television interview on May 21 that he was ready again to serve his country. β€œI will act in ...

  16. Full-blooded art, antiseptic gallery

    Africa was particularly violent and sparked an anti-war movement. Visually, African art objects brought ... a new world ― in short, all that was solid was being thrown in the air. The Balkan Wars, followed by ... World War I and then the Russian revolution, fractured the old, frozen river of European history, ...

  17. Ten reasons to oppose all Olympic Games

    traditions. 6. Violence. Many sports, such as boxing, archery and the javelin, are modelled on skills for war ... aggressive. On a number of occasions, sporting events have been the triggers for actual wars. The Olympics ... foster the games as a giant spectacle, promoting commercialisation. Visible athletes can cash in on ...

  18. Marion Heloise Studdert

    Veteran political activist and environmentalist Marion Studdert died on July 29, following ... Looking back on those heady days of leafleting, petitioning and even speaking publicly from the back of ... fascism". At this time she also helped to organise a branch of the Union of Australian Women and the ...

  19. Serbian oppositionists condemn NATO and Milosevic

    By Michael Karadjis A declaration condemning the NATO attack on Serbia was released in April by 17 ... anti-nationalist opposition in Serbia. Β  For the opposition groups, the war has been an unmitigated disaster. Serb ... national chauvinist Β“homogenisationΒ” has reached a fever pitch in the war conditions and the opposition has ...

  20. Venezuela is under attack for asserting that Black lives matter

    Andrew King, in an article first published on Truthout, looks at how the Bolivarian Revolution has ... including anΒ  economic war Β waged against the country along with the plummeting price of oil, The New York ... as that ofΒ  Afro-Venezuelan Orlando Figuera. On May 20, the 21-year-old was walking through the ...

  21. End aid to Indonesian military!

    By Max Lane Indonesian troops in East Timor executed six young East Timorese civilians on January ... Resistance (CNRM) issued on January 17, these six men were killed by troops of the KODIM military command, ... Indonesian armed forces (ABRI). In Medan, North Sumatra, it was announced on January 24 that Mochtar ...

  22. The harsh logic of occupying other people's countries

    Anti-racism Middle East Democracy Barry Healy Soldaten, On Fighting, Killing & Dying: The ... mouths of the perpetrators makes it all the more shocking. During world War II, the Allies bugged the ... private quarters of German prisoners of war to obtain intelligence. The records were buried deep in ...

  23. India: Modi’s β€˜development model’ is anti-poor and anti-minorities

    Modi, has been built on a paradigm of development and anti-corruption that has enabled him to develop ... sustained electoral support among the Indian middle classes and rehabilitate his image as a statesman on the ... But how much of this narrative is real? This war cry of development was the signature tune of Modi’s ...

  24. Bolivia eyewitness: Pro-poor change transforming the country

    name of the β€œwar on drugs” removed poor farmers from their lands and led to significant bloodshed. ... variety of political and social movements, with a particular focus on the issue of food sovereignty. Since ... gesture. Symbolically, but importantly, women are now seen wearing the traditional bowler hats and skirts ...

  25. Iran: 'If people unite, the regime will fall'

    Bishop’s request, this could change. Bahman said women in Iran are treated as β€œsecond class citizens”. Only ... men are allowed to initiate divorce. Women must get the permission of a male relative to travel and ... are compelled to wear a hijab. They are subject to harassment in workplaces, schools and on the ...

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