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1. From Moratorium to socialism

   I gave myself up to it with abandon. As a student at a Catholic school in the '60s, meditating on ... Party, Santamaria aimed to organise a viable right wing on the nation's campuses committed to ... pursuing the war against communism in Vietnam. Peace With Freedom — as the coalition called itself ...

2. Carlo's Corner: Poor oppressed Tony Abbott would never hurt a wall

   details Tony Abbott's time as a right-wing student activist on Sydney University. It describes Abbott ... vicious anti-gay and anti-women policies, but Abbott wants to make it clear he has never engaged in wall ... attack on Abbott's good name, right-wing Australian foreign affairs editor Greg Sheridan ...

3. Brainwashing

   attacks on our wages, living conditions, the environment, women's rights and every other social gain ... "brainwashing" — of trying, in the act of selling the paper, to "impose" the ideas it contains on other ... around a whole range of issues. They actively use their almost complete monopoly on information to shape ...

4. Looking out: The same gang

   contrast to the incessant ranting on radio talk shows about angry white males... about affirmative action ... students gathered at the classroom door. On the playground I was met by a menacing gang of bullies. I would ... a hostile confrontation and literally fell for the oldest trick in the book. As one boy got down on his ...

5. Welcome to what?

   locations across Australia on October 22 as part of Welcome to Australia events organised under the theme of ... gave a personal story of how her family fled war and persecution in Europe, ultimately being resettled ... policy is, with Labor taking the lead on many of its worst aspects, such as offshore resettlement. Give ...

6. No need for refugee deaths at sea

   which led to the probable deaths of three and two people respectively, who set out to sea on makeshift ... north of Christmas Island on June 5, but failed to arrive at the island and a search was not launched ... Australian Maritime Safety Authority by Customs on Friday night — almost 12 hours after debris was reportedly ...

7. PNGDF may be linked to Miriung assassination

   south-west Bougainville on October 12. The killing appeared to be the work of a highly skilled hit squad. ... Singirok, however, immediately branding the killing the work of the BRA. Then on October 16, Chan stated ... over radio that Miriung "was assassinated by the BRA". In a statement released on October 13, ...

8. Sudan: Regime tightens grip amid protests

   in providing intelligence for Washington’s post 9/11 “war on terror”. For its part, the Obama ... ashamed? This is Sharia.” In Sudan, special police enforce a conservative and behaviour code on women ... regime has maintained a tight monopoly on power. It has neither shared the country’s wealth nor allowed ...

9. From science and climate to May Day — mass actions challenge Trump

   to May 1 challenging President Donald Trump’s agenda.   The first, on April 22, was called by ... scientists and their supporters following Trump’s election to counter his attacks on scientific facts and on ... change and has expunged all references to it on its webpage. The EPA has become the EDA — the ...

10. Refugee policy risks more lives

    island in Indonesia last week. The boat was believed to have women and children on board and had vanished ... Rintoul, on July 7. The AFP sent a text message to alert Indonesian authorities, who launched a search for ... the July 10 Australian. Foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith told Lateline on July 8 the boat had ...

11. At least one too many Henry Lawsons

    pages — pouncing on the detested "landlordism, the title-worship, the class distinctions and ... the angry brilliance of "Faces in the Street" and "Freedom on the Wallaby". Lawson ... "scab" and "blackleg" as lacking in dignity and infringing on "mateship", a concept ...

12. Abandoned by Australia, Assange turns to Ecuador

    2010, after WikiLeaks' release of thousands of secret documents relating to the US's war on ... Assange went to the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 19 to apply for asylum, after losing his final ... Australian government, saying it had abandoned him. He said on June 21 that he had not met any Australian ...

13. The depression we didn't need sinks deeper

    this figure hides the real scale of the problem because many married women and people living on their ... September, 872,000 Australians were on the dole and by the middle of next year the number is likely to be ... 40% by 1995. This year's interest bill on the foreign debt is $14.5 billion, $1 billion more than ...

14. The revolution will not go better with Coke

    "cool". Benetton and Calvin Klein depend heavily on this strategy, using ad campaigns to associate their ... has Che's famous face on the bottle, accompanied by the slogan "Join the Revolution". ... with life under capitalism, rather than wage exploitation, war or poverty. Liberation marketing urges ...

15. Cuba denounces US 'human rights' hypocrisy

    nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, invaded Cuba and waged a war in Vietnam that killed almost ... Rights Commission in Geneva on March 24, Cuba's vice-president, Dr Carlos Lage Davila, replied to ... charges by the US government that in Cuba there has been a "crackdown on dissidents". Reprinted ...

16. United States: People-driven change

    people who hated what the administration stood for — the "war on terror", contempt for the poor ... movement, the fight for women's suffrage and the struggle for unions. Their strength rested on the ... reverent tone among this huge audience was at odds with the fake pomp on the Capitol steps itself ...

17. Oh! Kenneth Tynan!

    popular fame was to be the first person to say "fuck" on the BBC, and as the creative force ... is still worthwhile ferreting around on library shelves for Tynan's superb, but alas ... readership looking for an intellectual beacon amidst the political fog of the Cold War. Jaded by the fact ...

18. US dockers chase scab cargo out to sea

    to work, but even on these occasions, the men and women of the waterfront refused. ILWU business ... the Port of Oakland, the Neptune Jade finally sailed out of San Francisco Bay early on the morning of ... after they walked out on strike against brutal speed-up and deteriorating working conditions. Starting ...

19. Bobby Sands MP: ‘They can’t break our spirit’

    in Europe since World War II. Catholic and nationalist youth fought back on the streets. In Derry, ... Democracy National liberation Stuart Munckton On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands, Honourable Member of ... prisoner died after 66 days on hunger strike in the H-blocks of the British-run concentration camp called ...

20. AFGHANISTAN: Pentagon says civilian casualties not its problem

    Kandahar. Writing on October 24, Geov Parrish of the War Resisters League said he believed the civilian ... for the growing civilian casualties that its round-the-clock bombing in Afghanistan has inflicted on ... Pentagon officials on October 23 admitted that US warplanes on October 20 "mistakenly" dropped ...

21. Fighting with or fighting against? The ALP and the movements

    a debilitating impact on the social movements. In the 1970s the anti-Vietnam war moratorium and women ... war, and forcing the ALP to adopt a range of reforms for women. The impact of these mass, independent ... Easter. The Labor Party was recently elected into government in NSW — on a minority of first preference ...

22. Rally protests same-sex marriage ban

    Rachel Evans, Sydney On July 25, at least 250 people rallied at Sydney Town Hall to protest ... through the House of Representatives on June 17 without Labor opposition. On June 23, the Senate referred ... the homophobic agenda" of the Howard government, rather than "fight on [John Howard's] ...

23. Steve Towson demands 'Stand down Howard'

    US war on Iraq. "There have been many issues in the past year or so that I find the average ... on this must-have album. "Corner of Blues and Jubilees" is the album's opening number. ... This", and scream anger, as in "The Madness of King George", a not-so-subtle attack on George ...

24. PAKISTAN: Musharraf's dilemma

    Pakistan remember the Afghan war's impact on Pakistani civil, cultural and political life. ... BY KAMRAN ASDAR ALI Media reports indicate that on the evening of September 14 the president, ... Pakistani airspace if the need arises and, most importantly, share up-to-date intelligence on bin Laden and ...

25. Socialists condemn terrorist outrage

    solidarity with the Palestinian people. Socialists oppose any "war on terrorism". Military attacks ... [The following statement was issued by the Democratic Socialist Party on September 13, 2001.] ... expedient. But the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was of a fundamentally different kind. ...

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