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  1. DSP recommits to building the Socialist Alliance

    into active opposition against the occupation and assist in building broad anti-war protests on the ... Perspective's 22nd Congress on January 5-8 reaffirmed the DSP's commitment to building the Socialist ... Alliance as a new party project. This followed an extensive pre-congress discussion centred on a draft ...

  2. Would Gramsci go to the footy?

    struggle. McKay's position is based on the Gramscian tradition of a "war of position" ... mute on the short-term career of sports stars, whose success is often prematurely limited by injury, as ... ruck from whence they came. There are other lies and evasions promulgated by sport. Women's sport, ...

  3. WESTERN SAHARA: The wall of shame

    Union to report on the Muslim nation "in waiting". There are four refugee camps, approximately ... against capital punishment. They are religiously tolerant and women enjoy equal rights. In fact, women ... hold more positions in government than do women in many Western governments. Our delegation met ...

  4. Protests demand freedom for Palestine

    representatives of the Trades and Labour Council, anti-war group Women In Black, the Democratic Socialist Party, ... BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY β€” Up to 400 people gathered for a two-hour protest vigil for Palestine on ... Campaign to get involved, by phoning (02) 8080 8125 or emailing <Palestine@mbox.com>. On the evening ...

  5. Malaysia: Left Coalition formed to promote class politics

    receptive to more radical and progressive ideologies... β€œThe 1969 racial riot and the Cold War have not ... Malaysian politics had moved from class politics based on left or right ideologies to racial and religious ... impact on the environment,” he said. β€œFor example for Malaysia, we cannot hope to improve our environment ...

  6. News briefs #4

    statues outside the US consulate when the war on Iraq began on March 20 last year. Despite offering to ... #4 Melbourne Social Forum MELBOURNE β€” The first Melbourne Social Forum will be held on November ... Hillel Friedman. Vince Caughley, an activist with the Sydney Social Forum, will report on the recent ...

  7. MOZAMBIQUE: IMF targets sugar industry

    industry. The Pan African News Association (PANA) reported on May 25 that new investors in Mozambique's ... Marromeu sugar mill on the south bank of the Zambezi River. Sabotaged by US-backed terrorists during ... Mozambique's devastating civil war, the mill has been resurrected by the Sena Company, a Mauritian-led ...

  8. Viewpoint: Putting health back into the system

    Kamala Emanuel Putting health back into the system The health spending bidding war between Labor ... 36% β€” down from 68% in 1982. The squeeze on the public health system caused by increased demand and ... facts are otherwise. Writing in the Canberra Times on June 15, Crispin Hull pointed out that the tax ...

  9. Could Venezuela's socialists lose the coming elections?

    Raga” trending on Twitter. β€œThe economic war exists, it’s a reality, but part of the economic war is ... things you can usually count on. The upcoming December 6 elections for the National Assembly are no ... election since Hugo Chavez’s successful 1998 bid for president has been transformed into a referendum on ...

  10. Afghanistan: Karzai offers Taliban peace talks

    On September 29, US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered to meet Taliban leader Mullah ... Commenting on Karzai's offer, Canadian defence minister Peter MacKay told reporters in Halifax, Canada, ... that the offer was conditional on the Taliban "renouncing violence" and accepting the NATO ...

  11. UN in crisis, says human rights official

    in danger." On leaving Australia, has to organise visits to drug-war-ravaged Colombia and again ... long. The UN's special rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions has the grand total of two ... (including himself) working on 53,106 cases of killings or disappearances in 75 countries. So, one of the ...

  12. Egypt: Morsi unleashes thugs amid fresh protests against 'Pharoah-like' decrees

    of the presidential decree the day before without incident. Morsi’s administration declared war on ... strength, in effect inviting civil war. The result: eight dead, including a journalist who was reporting on ... dictatorship, and an economic war on the poor is now the key driving force unifying almost all sectors of ...

  13. Afghan elections: the US agenda

    a foreign policy and 'war-on-terror' success ahead of the November 2004 presidential elections in ... on October 9, US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai will win free and fair elections, and US ... through free and fair elections by June 2004. On July 9, after two deferrals, which the Afghan government ...

  14. What's wrong about globalisation?

    with cutbacks at universities or the war on affirmative action? While lots of people blame the ... International Monetary Fund (IMF); it's been indicted as the major reason for downward pressure on United ... cosmopolitanism. Let me expand a bit on each of my opening claims. First, the novelty of "globalisation". ...

  15. East Timor's freedom in the balance

    East Timor's freedom in the balance By Jon Land On April 27, as Australian Prime Minister ... John Howard and Indonesian President B.J. Habibie joked and chatted following their discussions on the ... accept or reject the Indonesian offer of autonomy. The summit on East Timor in Bali proved yet again the ...

  16. A people's history of colonial Malaya

    the Japanese occupation, then the post-war upsurge. Syed highlights the role that women ... (NUI), 2015 228 pages On a night in 2010, a crowd of onlookers gathered to watch the demolition of a 300 ... radicalism of the KMM opened up many new spaces in politics, especially for women. In December 1941, the ...

  17. WORLD SPORT: Staring down the Olympic monster

    unmistakably the United States Ҁ” and its war on the world. Stirrings of this were evident early on as US ... a brilliant byproduct of the war on terror. This compelled the Iraqi soccer team to respond. Midfielder and ... soccer squad was perhaps the surprise of the entire Olympics, advancing to the semifinals despite the war ...

  18. Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the editor Nuclear power I David Walters (Write On, GLW #747) repeats the nuclear ... Peters Adelaide Nuclear power II I realise that David Walters (Write On, GLW #747) believes in, and ... realised that shortly after World War II, with deliberate untruths, e.g., "too cheap to meter", ...

  19. Bosnia: a story of hope

    like ARKzine. Much of the coverage of the war in Bosnia has been centred on the notion that this is ... "international community" to deal with the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Cease-fires and agreements never last. ... rights and community groups organising against the war throughout the former Yugoslavia, this is the ...

  20. Building a bridge in Bosnia

    Mostar. Some fled as homes were ransacked and torched. Women and children were also dumped on the front ... from the right bank. On the left bank is the rubble of the Old Town. Across the boulevard on the right ... line. Others escaped from other areas of Bosnia. On the west side the picture is different. There are ...

  21. Theologian to Pope: 'No'

    America's major theologians and a survivor of the 1980s Salvadoran death squad war. Using the Vatican's ... rich left New Orleans in private jets... others queued on the highways to get petrol [while] other ... people of Black race, men and women, had to stay in the middle of floods in the poor part of town. ...

  22. Resistance in new territory

    campaigns against the Gulf War and AIDEX in '91. Later that year the space became the Women ... Minister Shane Stone, also Minister for Arts and Cultural Affairs, closed the centre on the basis of ... people back-packing around Australia or on their way to Asia get caught up in an anti-nuclear campaign or ...

  23. Dick Smith obscures causes of ecological crisis Β 

    a policy priority, and the more you focus on women’s rights and basic human needs.” Smith does not neglect ... and ecological problems stem from there being too many people on the planet face a special difficulty. ... essential categories of the population.” Β  Millionaire businessperson Dick Smith’s new book on population, ...

  24. Why Washington wants regime change in Iran

    crackdown on the democratic rights of workers, women and other ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ of the oppressed, its real crime in ... military's war plan, providing for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran." Ostensibly, the Pentagon ... is preparing an Iraq-style "pre-emptive" attack on Iran in order to stop Tehran from ...

  25. Let Afghan asylum seekers stay!

    safe. Governments which supported the war on Afghanistan have a political interest in presenting ... Afghanistan as being on the road to democracy, peace and prosperity. Their claim has been bolstered by the UN ... those Afghan asylum seekers who volunteer to do so. But on June 17, immigration minister Philip Ruddock ...

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