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  1. Canada adopts Australian anti-refugee policy

    the Burnaby Youth Detention Center where many of the 63 women and 49 children who were on board the MV ... Vancouver on September 11 in support of 492 Tamil asylum seekers who landed on Canada’s west coast in ... jumpers”, potential terrorists and victims of β€œhuman trafficking”. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on ...

  2. Bastards, the lot of them

    creationists, Holocaust Deniers, citizenship tests, War on Terror fridge magnets, management jargon, fake Irish ... culture wars. Their elites are not the people with "rich, influential parents", but academics, ... corner of bastardry (exploiting the images of semi-naked women) not explored by the former editor of the ...

  3. History in a mural

    war. The depiction of the democratic resistance is dominated by the portrait of Colonel Francisco ... April 1965 captured Santo Domingo, but bayonets, instead of the symbols of victory, are painted on the ... revolutionary forces during the civil war at the age of 16) also lost his life, as did Roberto DuvergΓ© and ...

  4. Fidel Castro at Earth Summit

    Fidel Castro's speech at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro on June 12. The text comes from Radio ... 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, ...

  5. 18 questions for radical rapper Intikana

    of War by Sun-Tzu; Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper; The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and ... peace, but lied and ended up slaughtering our people. They raped our women and stole our land. Then, they ... [on the southwest coast of] BorikΓ©n. Growing up, I used to spend my summers in that house. Running ...

  6. Secret police and the media

    The war against the British miners, and the smearing of Arthur Scargill, are the subject of an ... published an extract, as did New Statesman & Society, the public has bought the Milne book largely on ... a Conservative government's war against a section of the British people, whom it sought to crush without ...

  7. New journal links the international left

    Publications Sydney 128 pp., $6.50 Reviewed by Jim McIlroy If you want to keep a finger on the pulse of the ... the first issue as a magazine for the post-Cold War left; a determinedly socialist, anti-capitalist ... glance at the breadth and diversity of the political currents represented on the Links editorial board, ...

  8. Three men of the left

    service of working men and women” by setting up a left-wing law practice, taking on workplace injury ... university’s role in the Vietnam War. All Along the Watchtower is Hyde’s spirited memoir of his youth. It ... with the war machine and the capitalist system that spawned it. Hyde’s political journey took in the ...

  9. Political correctness: the new red scare

    By Phil Shannon A recent radio phone-in on the ABC on "Has Political Correctness (PC) gone ... incorrect books, thoughts and behaviour. Complaints have been aired on some campuses that to suggest that ... correct". Politicians have been getting in on the act. George Bush when he ran for re-election took swipes ...

  10. Revolutionary thinking in the brave new world

    to good old Marx in the brave world of globalisation". As George Bush carries out his war on the ... Course Publications 2001 In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States, President George ... strength against one of the poorest nations on earth, supposedly harbouring the latest incarnation of evil, ...

  11. The Holocaust- we must never forget

    Holocaust. Selecting Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the war on Iraq which has killed around 100,000 Iraqi ... temporarily raised consciousness. But on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, ... groups slaughtered by Nazi Germany included the Roma people, Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war, the ...

  12. Multi-tendency rights protected in Socialist Alliance

    (anti-war, refugee rights, women's liberation, environment, gay, lesbian and transsexual rights, ... clarify and resolve differences on all important matters, whilst continuing to take decisions on behalf of ... the Alliance on immediate decisions consistent with the platform and decisions of the National ...

  13. SAUDI ARABIA: Ruling family faces growing dissent

    over the extent of Saudi Arabia's commitment to the US-led "war on terrorism". The US ... the US-led "war on terrorism". Several high-ranking members of the ruling family and ... and previous incidents and to allow use of airbases on its soil for operations over Afghanistan. Among ...

  14. No cuts, more funds-- education for all

    confidence and radical analysis sparked by the war soon spread to other issues. Feminism and women ... and some major regional centres on August 20. The protests will stand up against the planned cuts to ... themselves and relieving the tax burden on companies frees up space for more juicy tax cuts. This also helps ...

  15. Showbags filled with death

    rally in Canberra's Civic Centre, followed by a women's protest at the war museum. Then, of ... dishes. "As Battled Tested in The Gulf War", declared the placards surrounding some of the ... exhibits, complete with photos of the handiwork of the goods in question. But the only bodies on display ...

  16. IRAQ: US massacres unarmed civilians

    forces following a raid by US troops and Iraqi commandos on a Shiite mosque in eastern Baghdad on the ... on a "terrorist cell". The terms "insurgents" and "terrorists" are ... the scene taken on the night of March 26 showed a tangle of dead bodies with gunshot wounds on the ...

  17. Letter from the US: Largest civil rights march insists #BlackLives Matter, #MuslimLivesMatter

    government’s attacks on voting rights, education, the environment, healthcare and women’s rights. ... Raleigh on February 8 for what organisers called the largest civil rights rally in the South since the ... lynchings of thousands of Blacks in the aftermath of the 19th century Civil War and Reconstruction. The ...

  18. Tamils flee genocide β€” refugees should be welcomed!

    has a "tough line" on border control and remains preoccupied with a farcical war on ... "There are women and children on board here. And we are not animals, we are people, but we are being ... Jay Fletcher On October 15, almost 260 Tamil refugees were stranded at an Indonesian port in west ...

  19. Kurds drive back IS, West fears example

    Maoist Workers Party (IP). But on one day during the recent protests by the Kurdish people in Turkey in ... Turkey, the nationalist left uses other ammunition against the Kurds on the other side of the Syria ... revolution from the start. It closed crossings on its border with northern Syria and dug trenches to stop ...

  20. NEW ZEALAND: Workers' Charter launched

    Grant Morgan, Auckland On August 18, a draft Workers' Charter was finalised by a steering ... committee elected at a meeting of unionists and left-wing activists in Auckland on July 2. Over the next ... A conference to discuss the charter and the campaign around it will be held in Auckland on October 22. The ...

  21. FMLN selects presidential candidates

    FMLN selects presidential candidates By Allen Jennings On September 27, amidst recrimination and ... respectively, to contest elections in El Salvador on March 7. This pair defeated the team of Dr Victoria Marina ... point on we are against [ruling party] ARENA. Have no doubt that we have left this internal process ...

  22. SRI LANKA: Tamil plantation workers fight for rights

    others are pro-war. The Catholic Church has also been divided, on ethnic lines, with the Sinhala section ... plantation workers are women. As policy, 50% of WDS executive members must be women, unlike other unions ... exploding, and the economic embargo against the north and east has largely been lifted (except for bans on ...

  23. United States: Toxic hate behind Chapel Hill killings

    β€œwar on terror” after 9/11, it is impossible to believe that this β€œanti-theist” rant was directed at ... attitudes of the US empire during the β€œwar on terror” β€” despite the fact some of its leaders, like George ... has been at war in the Middle East β€” for decades, but with increasing violence post 9/11. On the day ...

  24. Jabiluka: time to act

    Jabiluka: time to act By Sarah Peart On June 12, the Northern Territory Supreme Court refused to ... authorisation had been issued before all the required environmental assessments had been completed. On June 9, ... appeared in court that day to face trespass charges arising from her arrest at the mine site on May 19. ...

  25. The NT intervention must be ended!

    inexorably to family and other violence and then on to sexual abuse of men and women and, finally, of ... tonight. The human rights declaration was born out of the horrors of the second world war. Tired of the ... violence, rape, brutality and murder of war, the UN made a clear statement that no one should ever again ...

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