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  1. Vietnam celebrates 50 years of struggle

    by. Consistent with the continuing emphasis on the long war for independence, it began with the ... as the officials took the dais in front of Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum on Ba Dinh Square, where he ... gloriously sacrificed their lives... to the families of the war dead, the invalids, those credited with ...

  2. The lessons of the Wobblies

    workers. And, unlike other socialist organisations at the time, it generally did not exclude women from ... speak. The IWW was the most determined group opposing World War I and its strength in the workers' ... movement grew as a result. Workers, urged to accept worsening conditions for "the sake of the war ...

  3. Letter from the US: Clinton: 'high crimes and misdemeanours'

    have found it convenient to rely on the Christian right as a battering ram against gains made by women ... indictment, the Senate will hold a trial on whether Clinton should be kicked out of office or not. A high ... point in this media blitz was supposed to be the release of a videotape, played around the world on CNN, ...

  4. In lieu of a history: a Â鶹ӳ»­ sampler

    articles. The news that war had broken out met with an instant response right through Europe... as hundreds ... wholesale bombing of Baghdad. — "Massive opposition to war across Europe", February 18, 1991 ... Unions, made to a gathering of Australian unionists on March 20 [1991]. — "'Don't lift ...

  5. IRAQ: Pilger: 'A crime against humanity'

    of women and the scalps of children. Hear their voices on the unedited and unbroadcast videotape: “We ... fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”, spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. ... Observer 's page three on April 6 had Heller in mind when he wrote the weasel headline, “The moment ...

  6. ANC calls for continued solidarity

    the ANC. Addressing a meeting here of the Socialist International's Committee on Africa, Mbeki ... Hotel, "By 1989, this regime could see that it could no longer hang on to its power. That's ... to assist in applying pressure on these forces. "We have been together in this struggle to end ...

  7. UNITED STATES: New Orleans: Barbarity of US capitalism exposed

    receded as it appeared the US would achieve a quick victory. As the war dragged on, and the resistance to ... against the war on September 24 will be larger than they looked like being a few months ago. And New ... article in the September 3 San Francisco Chronicle reports on "a tale of two cities". At ...

  8. 'Tomorrow is too late'-- Castro's Rio speech more relevant than ever

    Socialism Economy Environment Climate crisis Fidel Castro The United Nations Conference on ... gave a speech warning of the dire consequences of failing to reverse course. Twenty years on, his ... environment. As a result, tens of millions of men, women and children die every year in the Third World, more ...

  9. UNITED STATES: Army reservists refuse Iraq duty

    on his application is still pending. Benderman is not alone in his objection to the war. Twenty-two ... not join the army to kill women, children and old men. I just don't see how these innocent people ... he says, "elements of my unit were instructed by a captain to fire on children throwing rocks at ...

  10. Privatisation is not the solution

    including land). Until the end of World War II, much of this infrastructure remained in state hands. This ... did not mean that private capital did not have a firm grip on the Australian economy, rather — as most ... the burden. In the post-war capitalist boom, the resources were available to governments to develop ...

  11. Recommend them to the magistrate

    world war. The latter video shows how essential hemp was in US war production after the supply of sisal ... had over 2000 tons of hemp rope on it. HEMP is the newspaper/broadsheet of the Help End Marijuana ... the Manly Court on January 6: $1000 for cultivation and $1000 for possessing a bong. The magistrate ...

  12. UN sanctions compound Iraqi devastation

    at the end of its eight-year war with Iran, per capita GNP was US$2367. In 1987 Iraq was calculated ... to be third on the list of "comfortable" nations in the region. Today the value of the ... economic data base on Iraq, estimates that the under-five mortality rate reached 128 per thousand in 1991, ...

  13. ITALY: Firenze Assediata (Florence under siege)

    incident. It culminated in a triumphant and completely peaceful anti-war march on November 9, the largest ... mayor of Florence and the president of the region of Tuscany put their reputations on the line by ... viewed the ESF as the equivalent to arrival of the Huns. In a notorious letter published on the front ...

  14. Venezuela: ‘Radical shift in policies required to save revolution’

    economic war carried out by private businesses, the next day they are calling on private businesses to ... over 70]. This is all wrong. There are big opposition demonstrations, they have been going on now for ... projects, public transportation. They have even set up burning barricades outside maternity hospitals. On ...

  15. United States: Jill Stein slams ‘Trump’s psychosis and Clinton’s distortions’

    anti-African-American legislation that opened the floodgates to this racist war on drugs and the endless expansion of ... the final debate in the US presidential race on October 19, Democracy Now! spoke to Dr Jill Stein, the ... debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the ...

  16. The environment and elections: who can we trust?

    million of them were occupied by women. Now more than 3.4 million of these people have lost their jobs, ... among them more than 2 million women. Seventy per cent of the unemployed in east Germany are women. The ... international security, wars and proliferation of nuclear material. At the same time, there are far-reaching ...

  17. East Timor: Protests over Horta's comments, militia leader's release

    Vannessa Hearman East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's comments on August 30 rejecting ... an international tribunal to bring those responsible for war crimes in East Timor to justice, and the ... release on the same day of militia leader Maternus Bere, continue to resonate in East Timor. Bere was ...

  18. Student revolt- It can happen here

    They were determined to set up a pirate anti-war station on the roof of the Melbourne University ... been instrumental in stopping imperialist wars like in Vietnam, combating racist attacks on Indigenous ... Empire Times Press, Adelaide, 2003 $30 (pb) On September 27, 1971, five student draft resisters who had ...

  19. With the US elections it is hard to see why anyone would oppose the US brand of freedom

    Goldman Sachs. Clinton looks on track for an easy win, to go by the polls. Of course she is, when the ... Land of the Free, the first thing that comes to mind is a billionaire who is literally on record ... boasting he is so powerful he can sexually assault women with impunity. Clinton, for her part, has been ...

  20. A comic of the tragedy of working life

    a semi-professional music hall family, Hancock got hooked early on the thrill of making people laugh. He served his ... Alan Simpson. They combined to produce his greatest achievement, Hancock's Half Hour, on radio and ... poverty and rationing after the war, and was a rebuttal to the Tory Prime Minister, Harold ...

  21. Iraq: The 'withdrawal' that wasn't

    war machine. On their own, they are helpless. We need to build an anti-war movement so strong that our ... 10-12 US conference of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, she ... speech is abridged from the US Socialist Worker. On July 4, US Vice-President Joe Biden celebrated ...

  22. FRANCE: Appeal for unity of the anti-capitalist left

    Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), held on the outskirts of Paris from October 30 to November 2. It was ... spring of 2003. Together, we have fought against unending imperialist war. Together we have fought ... internationalism incarnated by the anti-globalisation movement. We are faced in France and on an international ...

  23. Syria: Rebels worry about extremists, say Assad comes first

    Democracy Reese Erlich Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader Abdul Salaam types on his Dell laptop while ... a comrade sitting nearby taps a text message on his iPhone. Eight of his fighters lounge around an apartment ... war-torn Syria into Turkey. Members of Ahrar and other armed opposition groups are angry at the US for not ...

  24. A new life in Loma Chata

    FMLN. Blanca Estela is 12 years old. She was born after the war of liberation had begun. Then, 18 ... peace accords. Blanca's community now feels safe. They have land to farm on an individual and ... dismantled the school, cut new posts, made it larger and moved it to a better site. All labour on the school, ...

  25. Afghanistan: US soldier says sorry for occupation's crimes

    them women and children, and on the other side these Taliban and the Northern Alliance terrorists are ... soldier facing prosecution for refusing to be deployed to Iraq on the grounds that the US-led occupation ... US-backed Islamic fundamentalists. Common Dreams said on April 15 that Chiroux, who served in Afghanistan in ...

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