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  1. Latin American left leaders to visit Australia

    endless wars β€” it is sometimes easy to feel discouraged about our ability to change β€œthe way things are”. ... movements are challenging the plunder, war and injustices of the old system, toppling neoliberal ... the 21st century” is building on the Cuban revolution in proving what popular power can achieve. The ...

  2. Workin' in the Rain

    The ones with big metal wheels, wheelin' concrete, When you come back from the war... "Which ... war, son? Merriwa, Wee-waa, or Goorianawa? I was in a war from the day I was born. In Paddo's ... Women's Hospital, Eight kids in two rooms in Paddo..." Harry, they're workin' in the rain, ...

  3. There’s nothing domestic about violence

    of her enormous shock, pain and grief, she spoke out on behalf of all brutalised women. I thought, ... life’s essentials. If my ex-husband had consistently assaulted women on the street, the workplace or ... I find myself crying during news items and documentaries about violence to women and children. Recent ...

  4. FRANCE: Africa in Evian

    spoils-of-war squabbles between the warmongering coalition (US, UK and Italy) and their ephemeral opponents ... NEPAD's process, form and content. Until April 2002, no trade union, civil society, church, women ... at the opening ceremony in Durban. Then on August 31, at least 20,000 protested against the ...

  5. Fighting fascism

    the majority of whom are recent arrivals seeking refuge from their war-ravaged homeland. But the ... on the experiences of the Trotskyist US Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mass anti-fascist ... struggles of the Depression era through to the height of the Cold War witch-hunts of the 1950s. The book ...

  6. Migration, racism and environment

    war, the attitude was governed by the assimilation philosophy, which basically meant that immigrants ... NESB (non-English speaking background) people and the sexism experienced by NESB women? The general ... a similar way, we can understand the sexism that immigrant women face, because the labour market has always ...

  7. Neo-colonialism behind army expansion

    Women's National Basketball League will wear Australian Defence Force advertisements on their uniforms. ... Stuart Munckton On August 24, the Howard government announced that the military would be expanded ... by 2008. On top of the announcement last December of nearly 1500 additional troops, the latest ...

  8. John Pilger: Khan is wrong, WikiLeaks a rare truth-teller

    truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam war. Like the philanthropist Jemima Khan, the investigative ... it is not difficult. In the New Statesman on February 5, Khan ended her support for an epic struggle ... for justice, truth and freedom with an article on WikiLeaks's founder. To Khan, the Ellsbergs and ...

  9. Who'd be a suicide bomber?

    gunfire and rocket attacks. With the "war on terror" in full swing, Paradise Now brings into ... examination of why young Palestinian men and women give their lives to carry out suicide bombings. Paradise ... a portrait of the illegal Israeli occupation. The film, in contrast to the images we see every day on ...

  10. Pakistan: Flood aid falls short

    undeclared war against Pakistan continues. ABC News reported on August 24 that a US pilotless drone killed 20 ... catastrophe. On August 25, the United Nations reported 120,000 cases of suspected dengue fever and malaria and ... reported on August 25 that US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson told a conference organised by the US ...

  11. β€˜Our House, Your House’: behind Barcelona’s huge march for refugees

    Hundreds of thousands of people overflowed the streets of central Barcelona on February 20 in the largest ... Mediterranean trying to reach Europe last year alone. Β But they were also a call on the Spanish government. The ... be able to move off. It was a demonstration, broadcast live on public TV, in which nearly all parts ...

  12. No to Zionist violence

    fire down like rasping tendrils on the Palestinians in Gaza considered a war crime. Isn't the ... in Sydney against former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, who was on ... a speaking tour of Australia. Gillerman told the Sydney Morning Herald on February 16 that "Israeli ...

  13. TV gets actively radical

    representations of women leave a lot to be desired." ARTV's answer to some of the Christian groups on ... β€” Australia's Vietnam, a half-hour documentary about the war on Bougainville and the Australian ... access to people who normally wouldn't have a voice on television." ARTV is part of the Channel ...

  14. Rallies demand 'bring the troops home'

    Greens Senate candidate David Ristrom described how the US$156 billion spent on war could, for two years, ... Coalition government's lies spilled onto the streets of major cities across Australia on the October ... were the catchcries of the demonstrations. Speakers and participants represented anti-war coalitions, ...

  15. The legacy of 1968

    threats of war, or the danger of environmental catastrophes, or the attacks on workers, women and welfare, ... But it was a big turnabout at the time, changing attitudes on women, racism, the Third World, the ... the will of ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ of the US ruling class; and it gave heart and inspiration to opponents of the war ...

  16. AFGHANISTAN: Students gunned down

    Dictators and autocrats have been transformed into allies of "freedom" in the US "war on ... BY NORM DIXON Up to six Kabul University students were killed when police opened fire on ... demonstrators on November 11 and 12. Human Rights Watch reported on November 14 that police fired directly into ...

  17. The place they call 'hell'

    Jola Jones On December 2, immigration minister Amanda Vanstone handed down her decision on the ... future of the 41 Iraqi asylum seekers detained on Nauru. She announced that 27 Iraqis would be given ... changing circumstances on the protection claims of individuals". However, the Department of ...

  18. Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter movements issues a radical vision statement

    the β€œwar on terror”, including in the Middle East; characterises Israel as an β€œapartheid state” ... section titled β€œEnd the War on Black People”, it states: β€œUntil we achieve a world where cages are no ... for such practices to end. It also calls for an end to the β€œwar on Black immigrants”, including ...

  19. Petition calls for arrest of Turkey’s president

    laws Australians for Kurdistan began this petition on Change.org. It asks the Australian federal ... summit on November 15. It also asks the attorney-general to remove the Kurdistan Workers Party from the ... monstrous organisation. Their own propaganda features mass executions of civilians and prisoners of war ...

  20. Letter for Bougainville

    On September 30, the Sydney Morning Herald published an op-ed commentary on the Bougainville ... rights could countenance" controlling Bougainville, he said. Griffin called on the Australian ... Bougainville people, the BRA and the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) members. During my time on ...

  21. Tunisia: Ennahda fails to deliver promises of work and freedom

    collective blog Nawaat on August 3 that "the gains that women have acquired in Tunisia are admittedly ... of downtown Tunis to protest against the definition of women in Article 27 on August 13. Reuters said ... part in the β€œwar on terror”. Hardline Salafists (fundamentalist Muslims) were locked out of taking part ...

  22. Islamophobia hides under cloak of gender equality

    something much more sinister than the excitement of war and violence: gender apartheid. The experience of ... witnessing men and women seated in different parts of a lecture theatre is obviously traumatising, and so ... needed to be discussed on a national level. And of course, there is only one place to go when you want an ...

  23. Arundhati Roy's blaze of light

    book, as they begin to touch on the ways forward for our movement. The global anti-war marches of ... profoundly undemocratic nature of the world economic system, especially as it impacts on people in the Third ... reflections on Indian politics. In the book, Roy explores the history of the Indian government's project ...

  24. The hidden side of Australia's 'miracle economy'

    every step of the way, vying for a share of the spoils. On November 7, Canberra announced ... a multi-billion-dollar spending spree on military hardware. This will not just give the Australian Defence Force the ... Costello does not dwell on in his media gloating sessions is that much of the basis of the healthy state of ...

  25. The politics of dynamite

    the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, bombed by Weather women in 1974 β€” a sad commentary on ... wanted to "Bring the war home". But this ultraleft maximalism and Weatherman's proposed ... tactics of confrontation with the cops ensured that the vast majority of the mass anti-war movement and ...

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