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  1. Afghanistan: More chaos and more troops

    invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has also been touted as part of the West's "war on ... Women of Afghanistan reported on the conviction of a man for stealing a sack of flour. "The ... October 2001 invasion. On July 2, US President George Bush announced that US troop numbers in Afghanistan ...

  2. Fisk β€” the journalist who asked 'Why'

    men, women and children on his hands", reminds Fisk of another pompous war criminal, "a ... massacres and torture performed by "our side" in the war for the Middle East. Above all, while the ... cities, we will bomb yours". Thus, says Fisk of bin Laden's horrific answer, on 7 July 2005, ...

  3. Tolkien's 'feudal socialism'

    cash in, with The Fellowship of the Ring to be released on December 26. F or those who have not read ... and destroy the ring. On the way they are opposed by various evil creatures such as orcs, giant ... corrupted and they attempt to gain the ring for their master. Sauron brings war upon the kingdoms of the ...

  4. Free the political prisoners, democracy for the Malaysian people

    during the detention period and women activists have faced sexual harassment. On July 3, six Socialist ... Socialist Party of Malaysia activists who were remanded on June 25 for allegedly β€œwaging war against the ... International solidarity On June 19, a campaign titled Bersih 2.0 was called by the Malaysian ...

  5. Dire debate opens sewers of hate

    eliminated, the hateful attitudes will soon be defeated and banished to history. We have to wage a war on the ... so-called β€œanti-PC” charge but this ideological offensive was given real power by actual assaults on the ... attacks on refugees, its continuation and extension of the racist NT intervention against Aboriginal ...

  6. Colombia: 'Narco state' illegally uses Red Cross, Telesur logos

    American States (OAS), Denis Moncada, on July 24. The statement comes as criticism grows over ... with the FARC. In response to claims that he had met with FARC leaders on July 19, Ortega denied any ... 1 massacre on Ecuadorian soil of more than 20 FARC soldiers and civilians. In response Ecuador, Venezuela and ...

  7. Queers fighting back

    abuses. The AIDS virus has killed around 26 million people, half of them women, in the last 23 years. Half ... conservative delegates insisted on expunging the words "sex workers" and "homosexuals" from ... leader worldwide to introduce a ban on same-sex marriage. He has described queers as physiologically ...

  8. Rebellion at Freeport

    villagers. On March 8, a Freeport vehicle was involved in an accident in the mining town of Tembagapura which ... high. Then on March 10 a woman and her son were manhandled by Freeport security guards at the ... troops fired rubber bullets as 500 villagers surrounded an aircraft with a senior army officer on board. ...

  9. 'New World Order' in Lebanon

    Editorial Editorial: 'New World Order' in Lebanon In its 13th attack on southern Lebanon ... this year, Israel began three consecutive days of bombing raids on villages and Palestinian camps on ... Palestinian refugee camp Mieh Mieh. The second, a two-hour raid conducted just after midnight on June 4, was ...

  10. Can we make a revolution in Australia?

    sexism are rampant. On a world scale, poverty is climbing by the minute. War is ever-present. An ... participation in the war; give the peasants land; and feed the hungry. Imagine you were a peasant soldier on the ... unimaginable 16 million children die of hunger and curable diseases each year β€” that's a World War II ...

  11. A 'rebirth of liberalism'?

    on the Iraq war, but no Democratic congressional leader has called for a fixed deadline for troop ... nation on election night, the website says its blue-clad supporters will bear moral witness against ... anticipated a post-election "rebirth of liberalism" on the British Guardian daily's website, ...

  12. ZIMBABWE: Can the MDC solve the crisis?

    1980. Parliamentary elections are to take place on June 24-25. The MDC emerged from the militant 1997-99 ... driven and organised movement of the people". On March 1, 1999, ZCTU secretary-general Morgan ... formation". The MDC was launched on September 11 at a rally in Harare's Rufaro Stadium, attended by ...

  13. Rapper Miss Hood speaks out for her sisters

    female fighters on the frontline. "Both of the tribes were matriarchal, so women were equal to ... a chance to stand up for women." On her high-quality debut album, It's Fatal, the track ... wearing revealing clothes at the time. To still have that kind of attitude on women β€” it was just one of ...

  14. Somalia: Hunger made in the USA

    across the Horn of Africa. The BBC said on August 6 that roughly 640,000 children are acutely ... disaster'' on the globe. The UN officially designated the crisis a famine, the first time it has adopted that ... suffering famine." The BBC reported on August 4 that the UN said more than 4 million Kenyans are ...

  15. Why you should protest at CHOGM

    in which colonialists of a previous era used to boast that the β€œsun never sets” on the places where ... associates. CHOGM today is marked by both these characteristics: on the one hand the oppressive reality of ... imperialist business interests pushing their agendas; on the other hand, a bland talk shop set against ...

  16. Indigenous leader says 'protest Howard's attacks!'

    action for the November 16 convergence on federal parliament in Canberra to say "Stop, Howard!" ... mortgages." Watson pointed out that in 2001, former Labor leader Kim Beazley "out-polled Howard on ... Aboriginal health issues, about the rights of women in the workplace and in the wider community, and they ...

  17. Cuba faces old threats in a new world order

    stand on the Gulf crisis, but its hostility to Cuba doesn't stem from that stand. As ... AlarcΓ³n, described the war this way: "No action or decision adopted or to be adopted by this [UN ... global nuclear war, in addition to air and naval troop landings and the evacuation of civilian personnel ...

  18. This machine still kills fascists

    civilisation up and we shoot it down with wars." "Eisler on the Go" is a tribute to Hanns ... to Woody and Marjorie Guthrie and their children in the years after World War II. There Woody Guthrie ... called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Despite the fact that his recording career ...

  19. Mugabe trapped between the poor and the IMF

    drafted a range of new taxes, including a 5% "war veteran's levy" on all wage earners, ... dissatisfaction of the country's urban poor and the working class on the one hand, and the demands of big ... business and western financial institutions on the other. Attempts by President Robert Mugabe to offer ...

  20. Socialist youth get skills and ideas at national conference

    movements with particular reference to the anti-war and anti-work choices campaigns. The plenary on ... Resistance Conference. The conference consisted of plenaries on Australian politics, international politics, ... on student resistance and anti-nuclear campaigning, which included speakers from New Zealand, Quebec, ...

  21. El Salvador: In power, former guerrillas to hold first congress

    groups engaged in a guerilla war. Today, 13 years after peace accords ended the armed conflict, it is in ... government. New social programs have been created to benefit the population. We are also focused on ... countryside, particularly agriculture. We are also seeking to benefit different sectors, such as youth, women ...

  22. Cabaret and its cousins in Oz

    on changing the world. In Australia these aspirations found their best focus in the vitality of ... performance were key features of the Melbourne theatrical wave at this time of the Vietnam War. Actor and ... Her early performances relied heavily on the Brecht-Kurt Weill repertoire as she rejected the folk ...

  23. A glimpse at the history of rap

    political rap of women performers like Queen Latifah has been immense. There is a song about abortion on the ... against racism in the US and in Africa and police brutality. Women performers hit out at the sexism of ... like Public Enemy and KRS-One. Women rappers like Salt 'N' Pepa, MC Lyte and Queen Latifah, ...

  24. PALESTINE: Israel escalates terror campaign

    Nidal al Haddad On March 24, the United Nations Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution ... represented on the commission, including UN Security Council members China and Russia, voted for the ... abstained. The elderly quadriplegic was killed by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter gunship on March ...

  25. Cairo conference calls for resistance to imperialism

    "linking the rising movements of the left in Latin America with the anti-war movements on the one hand and ... region, together with delegates from anti-war coalitions in Canada, Korea, Venezuela and Europe. The ... the past year: Β•During last year's July war, the Lebanese revolutionary movement Hezbollah dealt ...

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