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  1. 'Join the parliament of the streets!'

    of Iraq, and its support for the United States' war of terror on the Third World, creates more ... support for the so-called "war on terror" is creating second-class citizens in this country too ... 16 convergence at federal parliament in Canberra. Thank you for coming here on the first sitting day ...

  2. A rousing witness to injustice

    Gulf War in 1991 (still on-going through sanctions against Iraq) demonstrate Pilger's humanity and ... repayment". American war and blockade on Vietnam, for example, has opened the door to the economic plunderers ... Distant Voices, John Pilger is once again on a mission to "rescue from media oblivion uncomfortable ...

  3. Turkey: Erdoğan imprisons parliamentary opposition and silences media

    the democratic and left-wing opposition, independent media and the Kurdish population. On October 25, ... Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were arrested. Free Women’s Congress (KJA) spokesperson Ayla Akat ... administration. At least 2500 members of the DBP have been jailed in the past year. On November 4 arrest warrants ...

  4. South African Communists mark rapid growth

    elected as national officials, and that only three women are serving on the newly elected Central ... Committee. The question of women's oppression was highlighted throughout the congress, with a focus on ... made in our struggle in South Africa. How do we successfully direct the GNU to maintain it on the right ...

  5. J20: 'Hail to the thief'

    BY SEAN HEALY While corporate media reports focused on "history" being made on the steps ... on Congress, where George Bush junior was sworn in as the chief executive officer of the world's ... most powerful state on January 20, there was far more historical significance in the numbers and anger ...

  6. Another outstanding Brecht production

    begins a life on the run, in the midst of war and famine. In order to feed the boy, she is obliged to ... in. A chalk circle is drawn on the ground and the boy is placed inside. The two women are told to each ... of his birth, commentators have cast doubts on some aspects of Bertolt Brecht's work. Some of ...

  7. SOUTH AFRICA: Mass struggle is the only road

    a declaration of war on working people and on the environment. When we marched in our thousands to Sandton on ... even the promises made in Rio. The Sandton summit is a declaration of war on the Earth and its people. ... [The following is a slightly abridged version of a statement issued in Johannesburg on September ...

  8. 'Trust the Howard government to lie!'

    intentions", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Brisbane, said on August 30. ... stands for an end to the Howard government of lies, but also calls for pressure to be kept on a Latham ... Iraq; cuts in spending on the military; an end to detention of refugees and closure of all detention ...

  9. Asia-Pacific solidarity gathering

    and Canada for three days of discussion and debate on the urgent questions of our time. The ... Jelapang branch; long-term organiser of plantation workers, urban settlers and women workers in Malaysia; ... of Luta Hamutuk (Fight Together), a research and advocacy institute focussing on economic issues. ...

  10. Waterfront conflict staged

    "The farmers' federation, Patrick Stevedores and our own federal government declared war on an ... impact on families, especially where the husbands were not re-employed. The women on the waterfront were ... wanted to capture some of this drama on the stage. "Members of the MUA were sacked because they were ...

  11. M1: solidarity with the Palestinian people

    Washington's "war on terror" that followed. Since then, the imperialists have attempted to ... the "war on terror" was demonstrated by the fact that more innocent civilians died in the US ... war on Afghanistan than in the terrorist attacks on September 11. An already impoverished and desolate ...

  12. Two centuries of troublemaking

    interviews The Chaser on its great APEC hoax and gleans wisdom from the women behind the John Howard ... the Network Against Prohibition, campaigning against the "war on drugs"; the gay male order ... graffiti artists BUGA-UP? Want the low-down on the Chaser's APEC stunt or an insight into ...

  13. Socialist Alliance for lesbian and gay rights

    On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the streets of inner-city ... gold banner: Β“Fighting against heterosexism, war and racism". Reprinted below is the NSW Socialist ... Alliance's policy statement on lesbian and gay rights, around which it will be campaigning for the March 22 ...

  14. CANADA: Quebec's new united left party

    April general election. It campaigned around a radical program centred on opposition to the US-led war ... 's commission, which was largely based on the demands advanced by the World March of Women. It includes demands ... huge demonstrations of more than 200,000 in Quebec earlier this year in opposition to the war on Iraq. ...

  15. Kierath changes WA compo plans

    Kierath changes WA compo plans By Andrew McGain PERTH β€” The Court government announced on July 29 ... relations minister Graham Kierath's new proposals are still a vicious attack on the rights of injured ... concession, however, is totally inadequate. Workers on low incomes will have to wait years before they reach ...

  16. The deafening silence

    Comment by Linda Paric On Mother's Day 1992, my village died. It was killed by Serbian ... of Turkish occupation, the poverty created by its Serbian landlords since 1914, two world wars and ... postwar illness and famine. Like most Croats and Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina, I grew up on a diet of ...

  17. Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue

    trained. He has revived the old cold war on two fronts: against China in Asia and with a β€œshield” of ... bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced ... β€œissue” diverts attention as successfully as this: not the free vote in Parliament on lowering the age of ...

  18. We will reclaim our armed forces!

    for this very important defibrillation of the anti-war and anti-empire work that was put on hold by ... Stan Goff The following is an abridged version of a speech given on December 11 at a public ... families, veterans, active duty personnel, and reservists against the war in Iraq. He will be a feature ...

  19. The moral revolutionary

    "women are on average stupider than men", and US Blacks have "something of a dog's liking ... and such like. During the Cold War went on missions for the British government denouncing the ... destructive properties of war, wealth, marriage, education and religion". The dean of Saint Pauls was ...

  20. Revolutionary technique

    slavishly pro-war corporate media and their role in the "war on terror"): "Guantanamo Bay, ... Palestinians, to the war on Iraq. On "Peruvian Cocaine", Technique is joined by emcees CrayzWalz, ... "war on terror" needs to be challenged, so too do the ruling classes' anti-woman and anti-gay ...

  21. Resistance: fighting for justice, fighting the system.

    military, political and economic backing. The Timor Gap Treaty on oil was only the most overt example of the ... are told that the current crisis in East Timor is a result of "warring East Timorese ... around: stopping the Jabiluka mine, the war in Kosova, the voluntary student unionism legislation. We can ...

  22. Undermining Bolivia

    Since it was published, the "anonymous" US student in Bolivia on a Fulbright scholarship has ... gone public about being asked by the US Embassy in Bolivia to spy on Cuban and Venezuelan doctors, ... Declassified documents and interviews on the ground in Bolivia prove that the Bush administration is using US ...

  23. Memoir helps map Palestine’s struggle

    Jordan. Even so, they fought on the Ottoman side in World War I, against British forces invading Palestine ... and memoir have emerged. First are accounts by diarists who witnessed World War I and British Mandate ... These common themes are also found in Mapping My Return, including the trauma of war and refugee life, ...

  24. USA: The duopoly

    Cheney are the Republican Party nominees. The "race for the White House" is now on. What is ... welcome wagon of labour, African Americans, women and others of the "rainbow" so as to soak up ... union, civil rights and women's rights movements tell workers and others that "their" ...

  25. Powerful portrait of a Koori artist

    for a children's book. She told Landon that when she was growing up on the Aboriginal mission of ... event last night stood up and thanked me for telling my story. She said most Koori women will not speak ... Harrison's family was seen as being the most stable on the mission. It was for this reason that in 1963 they ...

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