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1. Charlie Chaplin: never afraid to stand up

   paint "Jew" on their shop windows. This portrayal was not only before the US had declared war ... comics in a newspaper. Chaplin's physical comedy is on full display as he works harder and faster to ... — based explicitly on Adolph Hitler. Hynkel's hate-spewing speeches in mock German are so full of ...

2. 'Artists have a responsibility to stand with Ferguson'

   quo is a war on Black men and women. Artists, musicians and writers have a responsibility to stand ... unarmed eight-teen year old African American man, was shot and killed by the police. His body was left on ... reporters and a police assault on one St Louis city alderman. The apologists for racism attempted to use the ...

3. Howard and Costello step up their racist offensive

   to learn English and failing to treat women as equals. On September 3, Costello backed Howard's ... on terror", we are reminded, is primarily a war against Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic ... Howard and treasurer Peter Costello launched another barrage of racist attacks on Muslims and people of ...

4. Socialist Alliance candidates launch campaigns

   overthrown", this is not reason that Washington wants to wage war on the Iraqi people. Hamid said that the ... Victorian election. On November 8, the Socialist Alliance launch in the seat of Footscray, in ... affiliated to the Socialist Alliance, spoke about why socialists oppose the coming US/UN attack on Iraq. She ...

5. GERMANY: Success of Left Party- which way forward?

   fathers and women from losing their jobs, because foreign workers take them away on cheapest wages." ... German federal election on September 18. Receiving 8.7% of the national vote, it has more than doubled ... KPD, failed to enter parliament in the second general election after World War II), we can see across ...

6. Turkey: Kurdish movement ‘will stop Erdoğan imposing fascism’

   intellectuals, torturing prisoners, executing prisoners of war, tying them to the back of vehicles and dragging ... their corpses, exposing dead women’s naked bodies, allowing animals’ to decimate the corpses of people ... progressive �鶹ӳ�� of society came together. “Young people and women in particular have an important role; ...

7. The

   killing, once again, mostly women and children. Interviewed on his way to church, Clinton said, "I ... killing mostly women and children, including Qadhafi's 16-month-old daughter. In 1990, there was the ... and British weapons in his attack on the "evil" mullahs in Iran in 1980 was perfectly ...

8. Behind the upsurge of violence in Natal

   Reggie Hadebe, assassinated on October 26. Hadebe was vice-chairperson of the Natal Midlands region of ... campaign was launched on June 16. Several violent attacks on Inkatha members have the trademarks of covert ... operations by Pretoria's security forces. Inkatha and Pretoria have blamed these attacks on the ANC. The ...

9. When terrorism outlaws democracy

   enemy in the US "war on terror". The one concession gained by state leaders was a 10-year ... profiled as a consequence of the war on terror. Bypassing anti-discrimination laws, senior government ... instance, the September 15 Sydney Morning Herald published a piece by Daryl Melham warning: "The war on ...

10. Action updates

    or want more information, phone Cathy Burgess on (049) 201 528 or 014 633 552. NTEU dispute CANBERRA ... — National Tertiary Education and Industry Union members met in a Canberra-wide stop-work meeting on May 9; ... 300 people voted unanimously for a 24-hour strike on May 30 as part of the national NTEU strike. The ...

11. ZIMBABWE: Four days inside Mugabe's prisons

    protested against spiralling levels of poverty. Those arrested included township women with babies on their ... John 'Briggs' Bomba I was among 120 people who were arrested on the Zimbabwe Congress of ... Trade Unions (ZCTU)-led Action Against Poverty demonstration on November 8. Hundreds of people had ...

12. Rich get richer, military grows larger

    spending on the Iraq war, Beazley failed to promise defence cuts. Beazley did present a limited plan to pay ... Graham Matthews The Coalition's 11th budget delivered on May 9, which gave tax cuts to all, ... go to those on the largest incomes. For low-wage workers and families, there were only a few crumbs. ...

13. We need to continue to protest with refugees for justice

    least 20 women have been sexually assaulted on Nauru in the past year. There is widespread corruption in ... managed to smuggle out a letter from one of the women. It detailed the shocking conditions — including ... continual harassment by guards — that pregnant women and kids under the age of 4 had to endure. It finished ...

14. �鶹ӳ�� Weekly photographer and refugee Ali Bakhtiarvandi talks about his time in detention

    oral history project documenting the stories of men, women and children who have experienced mandatory ... the full story here. * * * I arrived in Australia on June 5, 2000. We arrived to Ashmore Reef. Then we ... including women and children and also a pregnant woman. All from Iraq and Iran. The people smuggler said: ...

15. Building the campaign against racism

    and the targeting of migrant communities is being fuelled by the so-called "war on terror". ... women's liberation, was a step forward. However, legal changes alone cannot undo centuries of oppression. ... continues. The Australian pastoral industry was founded on unpaid or underpaid Aboriginal labour, and the ...

16. Queer refugee speaks

    Sri Lanka. This is his story. More information on the campaign to free queer refugees can be found at ... US$10,000 for passage on a small boat with 43 other people to sail across the Indian Ocean from Sri Lanka, ... to the west coast of Australia. Leela left Sri Lanka on September 11 and was taken to Christmas ...

17. Defending wild spaces with film

    the world's second largest dam) on the Narmada River in India and the campaign by local villagers ... to stop it. Earth Report: Tee'd Off reports on the environmental impact of the proliferation of ... four films about the denial of women's right to education and reproductive health care — will be ...

18. Why we're increasingly disaffected with capitalist 'democracy'

    declaring that "Democracy itself has triumphed as a result of the end of the Cold War", Susan J. ... Watanuki to prepare the Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission. It was ... operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and non-involvement on ...

19. Boring jobs and overbearing bosses

    slimmest toe-hold on economic security is reached. Internalised oppression and the individualised battle to ... overcome it lie at the heart of capitalist rule. Accumulation on the personal level — the consumption of ... those stereotypical mining towns, made famous by movies like Matewan and Harlan County USA. Women were ...

20. PAKISTAN: World Social Forum opens democratic space

    "It brought together, on one platform, most of the movements in Pakistan — from peasants to ... fisher-folk, women's rights' groups to national liberation struggle groups opposing the neoliberal ... government's manoeuvres, the imperialist wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the Cuban and ...

21. SOUTH KOREA: 'Another world is before us'

    World Bank insist that "there is no alternative" and force neo-liberal globalisation on the ... has grown intense. Second, in the course of neo-liberal globalisation, exploitation of women workers ... rules, and women workers are the first to be sacked. Sexual harassment in the workplace and sexual ...

22. Socialist voices in the Victorian election

    war on Lebanon and Palestine. A social worker, Margarita has experience in the areas of disability, ... A founder of Melbourne's Stop the War Coalition, she was an organiser of rallies against Israel's ... women's health and housing. Vannessa Hearman (Socialist Alliance) in Brunswick Vannessa has lived in ...

23. IRAN: A vote against neoliberalism

    Doug Lorimer In a result that has stunned most Western and Iranian political commentators, on June ... first round of the presidential election, held on June 17, the 70-year-old Rafsanjani scraped in as ... colourful head-scarves for women." Ahmadinejad's election platform While affirming his support for ...

24. House of Saud: rotting from the inside

    1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, Britain controlled Egypt and many of the coastal areas of ... once included most of the Middle East, Northern Africa, the Balkan states and Hungary. During the war ... Ottoman overseers. In return they were promised an independent Arabia. At the end of the war both these ...

25. What politics for the movement against neo-liberal globalisation?

    the war on Iraq. In the process they will also make hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people ... Australia, has Labor — as it manoeuvres to insert Australia in the Iraq war on the "right basis" ... will campaign, like the Socialist Alliance, against the impending war on Iraq. We look forward to ...

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