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1. MLN pledges economic and social reform

   to involve the whole population in consolidating a democratic state. Social peace is based on social ... especially women and young people, to be politically involved. For this reason the FMLN is also campaigning ... crimes per day in the capital city. This is a direct result of the poverty and social decay which the war ...

2. The bush meets the struggle

   A workshop by Rosa's Daughters examined the history of women in Australia and New Zealand. Songs taught ... included one on Louisa Lawson, an important feminist in the late 19th century and also Henry's mum. ... Eric Bogle also performed. A highlight of his set was "The Fields of France", on the ...

3. Radio highlights

   Radio highlights 9point = The Story of Pop: Rap it Up — The BBC's mega series on pop music ... play by David Britton. On August 21, 1968, tanks from the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia. Within 24 ... with the Vietnam War the target of protest. Cargo is set in this turbulent period, as folk singer Phil ...

4. Resistance's 25th national conference

   conference since the organisation was formed by young radicals at the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement ... workers' rights, stop attacks on education funding and student unions, and support a free East Timor. ... students, trade unionists and others will be discussed. The agenda also includes workshops on feminism and ...

5. Revival of Native American religions

   for on, poverty and war. August 12, 1992 66 Culture ... North, he puts the native religions, with their stress on solidarity and the unity of humanity and the ... Aymara and Quechua priests organised the ceremony to greet the new year assisted by local peasant women ...

6. UNITED STATES: Corporate media whitewashes US massacres

   have the ability to report on war in all its horror. But the rejection by some US outlets of Post ... Atlanta Journal-Constitution summarised the story thus on April 2: "Seven Iraqi women and children ... the official US denials. On March 28, in an open-air market in the Shuala section of Baghdad, more ...

7. Koestler — from anti-Stalinist to pro-capitalist

   against Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war; as a Jew, he escaped from the Gestapo in France ... 1970s books on parapsychology. Michael Scammell's biography of Koestler explores a man born in ... the German Communist Party as a writer and polemicist. He waxed lyrical on turbines and tractors ...

8. The life of woman who shot Mussolini

   pages, $32.99 (pb) The Honourable Violet Gibson was not like the other women of the Anglo-Irish elite ... the fascist dictator in Italy in April 1926 and shot him in the nose. Frances Saunders' book on ... before settling on a life of “charity and prayer” as a reform-minded Catholic. A pacifist opposed to ...

9. Moroccan offensive threatens peace plan

   Carmen Maclean Violating a United Nations peace plan, the Moroccan government has resumed its war ... effect on September 6. This was to be followed by a UN-supervised referendum on independence or ... "official" annexation by Morocco, before the end of January 1992. On August 4 and 5, Moroccan planes struck ...

10. Globalising resistance to corporate tyranny

    Resistance! By Danny Fairfax On November 30, 1999, 75,000 people converged on Seattle to ... with each involving more and more people. On May 1, 20,000 activists blockaded stock exchanges and key ... and war will vanish. In reality, corporate globalisation helps just one group in society: big ...

11. PALESTINE: The myth of the empty land

    The state of Israel was founded on a lie: that Palestine was an empty land. "Land without ... population in December 1947. The militias launched hundreds of brutal attacks on Palestinian towns and ... people were killed. By the end of this war of terror, 418 Arab towns and villages had been wiped off the ...

12. NSW election campaign launched

    alliance's state conference on August 3. The first gathering since the alliance achieved state electoral ... on civil rights, immigrants and refugees, public ownership, unions, workers and the unemployed. The ... meeting's focus was on the March 2003 state election campaign. The delegates voted unanimously to stand at ...

13. Black candidate seeks to rally US progressives

    a broad party based on the National Organization of Women, and the Green Party. "So far", he ... "everyone jumped on board to hail the 'victory' in the Gulf War, to hail the slaughter of the ... look at the domestic decay and there "is not so much hoopla about the Gulf War". Some people ...

14. UZBEKISTAN: Protesters massacred by US ally

    feeds into the US agenda" of the so-called war on terror. Why has the US so far only offered limp ... been an early and outspoken supporter of the war on terrorism. Indeed, it has played a critical role in ... cooperating in "combating transnational threats to society [i.e., the 'war on terror']" ...

15. John Pilger: Welcome to Orwell's world

    war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ... the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that ... country." In Oceania, truth and lies are indivisible. According to Obama, the US attack on Afghanistan in ...

16. Join the Socialist Alliance!

    Labor leader Simon Crean's inability to take a clear, unequivocal stance against the war on Iraq ... They vigorously opposed the war on Iraq, have voted to defend the rights of refugees and asylum seekers ... the new political organisation. The social problems created by the capitalist profit system — war ...

17. A proud history of secondary student activism

    secondary student teach-in on the Vietnam War in July 1968. This drew 400 people, overwhelmingly secondary ... and Labor party politicians are rarely far behind. As the Catholic Church once debated whether women ... secondary student strike on September 20, 1972. The Daily Telegraph raved on: "The vast majority of ...

18. Woomera protest shows need for refugee inquiry

    a hunger strike, possibly as early as January 14. Reported by the mainstream press for the first time on ... Human rights lawyers were given access to the centre on January 19, but were not allowed to speak to the ... mid-December, riots broke out, causing substantial damage to buildings. Speaking through an interpreter on ...

19. George Petersen 1921-2000

    International Women's Day march in Wollongong on March 4. In the Illawarra, George Petersen will be ... to 1988, died at the age of 79 on March 28. Throughout his adult life he was a fighter for the rights ... communist uncles, while he was working as a public servant in the Bundaberg post office, started him on the ...

20. Blood, sweat, tears and sugar

    and at the height of the civil war to end slavery that United States — the first shipload of ... was partly built on the exploitation of the people of the Pacific islands. Australian ... capitalism's birth was as brutal and unjust as any other capitalism on this planet. As historian Clive Moore ...

21. Land reform and food security in Vietnam

    By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — The Asian economic crisis has had a massive impact on the production, ... held in Hanoi on November 3, was organised by the Vietnamese government to discuss the impact of the ... economic crisis on food security in the region and how to combat it. Through the conference it became clear ...

22. Action updates

    War was paid $160,000 to speak on "success" and "personnel development". Students ... allocated to salaries have instead been spent on extravagant building projects. Student activists joined the ... workers on the picket lines. A stop-work meeting on August 18 will decide whether a strike proposed for ...

23. What we can't and can afford

    themselves, or whose forefathers, had taken the Aborigines' land, women, children, and labour on whatever ... justifies lower wages, even though we, as a nation, claim to have outlawed discrimination on the basis of ... their pay. I am old enough to have been around in the 1960s, when, to the horror of many, women were ...

24. Vancouver Winter Olympics — A festival of corporate greed

    Roger Annis Vancouver On February 12, the corporate sporting behemoth known as the 21st Winter ... executives, invited guests, and assorted hangers-on. Militarisation When Vancouver first submitted a bid for ... as that used to justify the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine-that behind every corner lurks ...

25. Clive Hamilton: We need a new environmental radicalism

    Climate Action Summit, held in Melbourne on April 9. * * * The difficulty and importance of the global ... consultations, the attention of journalists and so on. In the face of the failure of mainstream environmentalism ... to achieve significant progress on the biggest issue it will ever face, we need a new environmental ...

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