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PHILIPPINES: Moro liberation fighters under siege
on May 3 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines (RPMP). The situation in our country, ... confrontations between the Philippines Armed Forces (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Front (MILF). On April 30, the ... cannot continue the talks while its camps are surrounded by elite troops of the AFP. Starting on April ...
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World's richest come to Sydney
the business elite. There are hundreds of reasons to protest this meeting. One is to oppose the war on ... Alison Dellit On August 30, the fifth annual Forbes Global CEO Conference will be opened with ... are also being supported by Unions NSW. The protests, which will begin around 5pm on August 30 at ...
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SSP looks to 'future with confidence'
and visitors, the conference was held on October 7-8. Sheridan, with the support of fellow member of ... on August 29, after publicly denouncing the SSP's other four MSPs, including Fox, as ... "scabs" for refusing to lie on his behalf in a defamation suit he brought against News Corporation's ...
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RUSSIA: Unions fight 19th century labour laws
young activists are internationalists who oppose the war on Chechnya and have spoken out against racism ... enslavement of women in the sex trade, drug abuse, alcoholism and crime have become epidemic. The average male ... represents their workers, permits child labour and forces pregnant women to work night shifts. It is ...
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1993 Festival of Jewish Cinema a mixed bag
have done the same with Tel Aviv Stories, which centred on three young women in Tel Aviv without any ... years. I avoided Pour Sacha, billed as "a romantic drama set on the Golan Heights". I should ... backwaters of pre-war Poland, but in a slow, schmaltzy sort of way characteristic of the films of the former ...
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The trouble with Labor
consequences in the very near future. Unable to charter any real alternatives to the neoliberal formula of war ... us into a series of bloody wars. That is the price of our own illusions and of our failure to build ... insulated from much of this, riding on the coat-tails of Asian demand for our resources. But when the Asian ...
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A novel of artistic strength
mistake the first rifle shots of the Spanish Civil War for fireworks at the opening ceremony of the ... increasingly secular, women had equality in law, and everyone was calling each other "Comrade". ... happiness was not too difficult to come by". They hadn't reckoned on Franco's fascist ...
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A tale worthy of Christie
sabotage by its World War II "allies"; and the Cold War, with its sophisticated spying and ... and "Communists". Civil war, desperate want, political isolation, and violent capitalist ... women and national minorities. It took exile, assassinations, state terror, and ultimately mass ...
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Carr government bans student peace march
strike on March 26 was "hijacked" by young Arab men, who had been recruited by radical anti-war ... talking about the war on Iraq from the platform, police arrested a 14-year-old Muslim girl. This again ... on the whole anti-war movement. Most importantly, the police and media are using their distorted ...
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UNITED NATIONS: US tries to sabotage UN anti-poverty plan
summit declaration from the issue of world poverty to support for its "war on terror", US ... malaria." Bolton's attempt to make the "war on terror" the central focus of the document to ... been victimised by the so-called global war on terrorism. Irreversible data on information and public ...
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Bougainville peace initiative holds first meeting
Pacific countries who most of them are members of the United Nations, can ignore the war on Bougainville, ... Honiara on July 30. The committee includes representatives of Bougainvillians in PNG occupied areas as ... on the PNG government to facilitate peace processes through the Peace Negotiating and Monitoring ...
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a woman's place is in the struggle: Bring them home
covertly sanctions the systematic raping of young women. A week after Bush ordered this war machine to ... helicopters had fired rockets on them the day before. "The Iraqi family misunderstood", said ... Iraqi military hospital on April 1, he told journalists who gave him the news that he thought it was ...
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50,000 demonstrate for a different Europe
force in Amsterdam since World War II converged on the city. With a large presence on all the major ... By Nikki Ulasowski and Russell Pickering AMSTERDAM — On June 14, 50,000 people from across Europe ... The protest preceded the Inter Governmental Conference (IGC) on European Economic and Monetary Union ...
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Third World youth organise against the odds
demonstrations against the privatisation of education, for women's rights and more recently against the war ... that despite this, protests against the US-led war on Iraq have been getting larger. Pakistan Pakistani ... fundamentalists; in Zimbabwe, police attend student meetings and political activity on most campuses and colleges ...
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Warren Smith: Occupy movement ‘is the hope of humanity’
consistent attacks on working men and women, every day of their lives. And that’s what we see. And this sort ... a society where we spend $70 million a day on war when that hospital across the road is doing it tough? ... Australia, addressed Occupy Sydney at Martin Place on October 22. His speech appears below. * * * Some people ...
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Behind the rise of Obama
war. Clinton voted for it and refused to repudiate that vote after it became known the war was based on ... Malik Miah San Francisco "America, this is our moment", stated Barack Obama on June ... parties. It happened on the evening of June 3 as the final two primaries (votes to elect delegates to the ...
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The A-B-C of public broadcasting
commercial radio stations. The ABC modelled itself on its big imperial brother, the BBC. The tone was ... patrician, the accents upper class "BBC English". There were no women's voices, young people ... children's programs. Youth were given their own FM rock station in 1974. Current affairs programs on Radio ...
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We're doing to Rohingyas what was done to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust
refugees Jews The Holocaust Nazism In 1939, as Europe stood on the verge of all-out war, Nazi Germany, true ... asylum seekers. In the following years when the US was involved in the war against the Nazis and the ... US, and the passengers were granted asylum. World War II left the world in ashes, and with many ...
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Jane Fonda and the role of the accident in history
returning soldiers were "spat on" by peacenik women. In July 1972, almost all copies of the film ... starred the activist Jane Fonda, but because it showed thousand of GIs on the anti-war, anti-army, RITA, ... with a member of the US Army actively opposed to the Vietnam war, a RITA — resister inside the army. ...
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The Petrograd of the West
family forced from the land, was a Glasgow schoolteacher famous for classes on Marxist economics that ... World War. He was the Soviet Bolshevik government's first consul in the UK, and was elected an ... Barbour's Army", covering the 1910 strike by young women at the Neilston Thread Mill and the 1915 Rent ...
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Single mum to contest Adelaide seat
Elections The statement below was released by the Socialist Alliance on June 5. *** Liah Lazarou ... in anti-war and international solidarity campaigns. As a single mother, she will support the local ... further entrench poverty and disproportionately affect women. This policy is steeped in misogyny and must ...
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‘Save the Tamil children’
school massacre in Tamil Eelam, the Tamil area of Sri Lanka. On September 22, 1995, the Sri Lankan Air ... Force (SLAF) bombed Nargar Kovil Maha Vidyalayam schoolyard, which was crammed with 750 children on ... bombed a church at Navaly, killing 147 Tamil men, women and children seeking refuge from the military ...
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Finding solutions to capitalism's crises
on Sydney over Easter, for this year's most important discussion on capitalism's crises and ... the socialist solutions. From the revolutions in Latin America, to resisting imperialism and war in ... from more than a dozen countries will give a strong international flavour to discussions on topics ...
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Al Nakba marked amid factional fighting in Palestine
Ramallah Thousands of Palestinians joined rallies on May 15 throughout the Occupied Palestinian ... terrorist attacks by Zionist militias and the first Arab-Israeli war, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ... the planned rally failed to go ahead after a new Fatah-Hamas ceasefire on the eve of the ...
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Cambodia: Khmer Rouge tribunal holds first public hearing
first public sessions on November 20 and 21. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ... and international judges adopted its rules. Cambodia's judicial system is based on the ... affairs, the sister of Pol Pot's first wife and one of the highest-ranking women in the Khmer Rouge. ...