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  1. Growing up Jewish in South Africa

    the shadow of World War II. Looking back to pogroms and exile and forward to the home-grown version of ... touched on. They need a stronger, more substantial treatment than this slight novel offers. Stronger and ... for family members to feel at home in the product of their labours. Daughters, on the other hand, are ...

  2. Reconstruction and reaction

    Radical Reconstruction, which began two years after the Civil War in 1867 and lasted until 1877. In this ... American activist of the time. The Civil War was the result of a struggle for control over the newly ... secession. War followed inevitably, the Northern victory clearing the way for US industrial growth, crucial ...

  3. Rise of the populationists greenwashes racism

    African women) for all of the woes of modern society. Between 1960 and 1980 more than 20 million people ... and limits to growth. For the SPP and their fellow travellers, trends on fertility, mortality, and ... now going backwards. By the end of World War Two, the stage was set for the populationist seed to ...

  4. National protest against abuse of refugees

    Association of Australia); Women Against War and Racism; Dorothy Buckland-Fuller (Women's International ... BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA β€” With the Coalition government on the back foot over its refugee ... policies, activists from around Australia are planning to converge on Parliament House on February 12 to ...

  5. Letter from the US: Trump ramps up immigrant raids amid daily protests

    the β€œWar on Drugs” has resulted in millions of felony convictions. This mass incarceration has ... caused by US imperialist exploitation, and the crime wave resulting from the US β€œWar on Drugs,” to get ... Anti-racism Democracy Barry Sheppard Trump’s xenophobia San Francisco Since the huge Women ...

  6. Political memoirs of a veteran protester

    Vulcan Press, 2007 $39.95 or $30 + postage from the author, (03) 9857 9249 The Vietnam War and the ... frenetic years of anti-war activity were seminal to the political lives of a generation of activists like ... Painting and Politics, published in late 2007. Life had been relatively routine until the Vietnam War ...

  7. Political memoirs of a veteran protester

    Vulcan Press, 2007 $39.95 or $30 + postage from the author, (03) 9857 9249 The Vietnam War and the ... frenetic years of anti-war activity were seminal to the political lives of a generation of activists like ... Painting and Politics, published in late 2007. Life had been relatively routine until the Vietnam War ...

  8. Australian Jews and the Middle East; the suppressed debate @auth = By Angela Matheson

    survivors in Australia who cannot cope with members of its own community supporting people who cheered on ... Kessler and others like him as un-Jewish". Leibler agrees. "Our federation tries to focus on the ... group, Jewish Women for an Independent Palestine (JWIP) and is scathing in her assessment of the ...

  9. Amid difficult election campaign, Britain’s left is pushing back against hard-right Tories

    militarisation, with armed soldiers on the streets. Labour’s socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran anti-war ... and the Greens are campaigning on LGBTQI issues, women’s rights and defence of the Gaelic language. If ... suspended. The impact of the atrocity on the elections remains unclear. May has responded with greater ...

  10. Afghanistan: US-NATO attacks kill 51 villagers

    another predawn raid on a suspected car-bombing cell just outside the city. The women's deaths led to ... Herat province on April 28-29 sparked angry protests by thousands of residents of the province's ... Shindand district. The Inter Press Service news agency reported that on April 30 protesters torched the ...

  11. Sri Lanka: New president wins amid discontent, repression

    though he had been part of a government that had waged war on the Tamil people. A TNA statement issued on ... in 2010. In his first term, he presided over the most brutal phase of the war between the Sri Lankan ... between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. Rajapaksa ended the ceasefire, and waged a genocidal war ...

  12. Humphrey McQueen: WikiLeaks and the fight for free speech

    Democracy The article below is based on a December 16 speech by Canberra-based freelance historian ... be shot at by the political police on the fringes of this crowd? We take it for granted that we won’t ... spokespeople on education want the Magna Carta taught in the national school curriculum. Julie Bishop and ...

  13. How anti-terror laws make terrorists

    committing war crimes in Afghanistan. This is hardly a controversial statement. Indeed, on October 13, ... strength to, material and logistical support from Turkey, which is officially an ally in the β€œwar on ... activity On October 12, police cars descended at high speed on a laneway in the western Sydney suburb of ...

  14. Action updates

    George Square on February 17. "The state government has ignored the suggestions by women in its ... ADELAIDE β€” A cross campus network has been formed following a meeting of around 40 people on ... 1000 nurses calling for an "8% pay increase now!" during lunchtime on February 17. This is ...

  15. The spirit of Genoa

    three wars. We fight against the war on the Afghan people. We fight against the war on refugees. And we ... fight against the war on workers. But we fight for many good things also. We want to throw the Liberals ... Genoa. We are unemployed and on work-for-the-dole. Within Socialist Alliance we are all these and much ...

  16. Why Trump won and what happens next

    the police against Black Lives Matter, supports the β€œWar on Drugs” and mass incarceration, and ... rollback of the β€œWar on Drugs” or mass incarceration; instead these will be stepped up. The stocks of ... Washington’s wars. Big tax cuts for the rich are certain. Regulations on the financial firms will be relaxed. ...

  17. Government exploits tragedy to deflect attention from budget

    Israel's ongoing massacre in Gaza. The official UN observer's casualty list on that day, July 23, was ... that will be imposed on some of the poorest ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ of the Australian population if her ... education. She was not talking about the women who will be trapped in abusive relationships and bashed or ...

  18. Marr investigates panic in Australia

    Panic. β€œIt’s so Australian,” says the dejected journalist, David Marr in his book of essays on the rise, ... Federation”, and subsequent alarms about German spies in World War I, Wobblies and Reds in the 1920s, ... Communists in the Depression, and the Red Menace all over again after World War II have kept the scares ...

  19. No more lies, no more frame-ups!

    fighting a war on terror?", asks Socialist Alliance candidate for the Victorian federal seat of ... a genuine alternative for working people. "Rudd is not only agreeing with Howard on the anti-terror ... branch president Jeremy Smith and Margarita Windisch, an anti-war activist and the Socialist Alliance ...

  20. Anti-privatisation rally attracts thousands

    a march on the day is not an indication of a union war without any real action. April 26, 1995 184 News ... By Maureen Baker PERTH β€” Up to 5000 people attended an anti-privatisation rally at lunchtime on ... women's refuges and the system for dealing with child abuse. Dave Robinson, secretary of the State Public ...

  21. Betrayed, not failed

    our time alone has caused two horrific world wars; which for the first time in history used the atom ... Chile. It can be said that socialist countries have also committed crimes. Yes, but not on the same ... brutalities were due to greed for consolidating power and exploitation. Based on Marxism and socialist ideals, ...

  22. John Pilger: The new propaganda is 'liberal'

    not on β€œorders from above”, but on the β€œsubmissive void” of the German public. Did that include the ... Today's β€œmessage” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal ... β€œAll is normality on display. For [Nazi] goose-steppers, substitute the seemingly more innocuous ...

  23. Resist to exist: a conference for young people

    the 1960s, when they were a major part of the movement against the Vietnam War. Out of that movement ... only war but social inequality and conformity. Resistance is still going strong today, and it is still ... of the Gulf war", said Spindler. "The United States has always been prepared to use ...

  24. 'Tomorrow is too late'-- When Fidel Castro urged urgent climate action at Rio in 1992

    at first forced on the Caribbean nation by the dire economic crisis caused by the collapse of the ... underdevelopment and poverty is a flagrant rape of the environment. As a result, tens of millions of men, women and ... children die every year in the Third World, more than in each of the two world wars. Unequal trade, ...

  25. Egyptian socialists: 'Revolution has just begun'

    popular uprising overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak on February 11. The ESP is one of several new parties ... Sinai in which Israel killed six Egyptian soldiers, and the storming of the Israeli Embassy on September ... a conflict of religion between Muslims and Jews, but about Israel as a state based on discrimination. Some ...

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