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RUSSIA: Workers strike against new labour law
A coalition of independent trade unions organised a nation-wide protest on June 19 against ... in kind, job insecurity, legal blacklisting, enforced night work for pregnant women and child labour. ... and Yakutia. In Omsk, Siberia, two members of the Siberian Confederation of Labor on hunger strike ...
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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: •During last year's July war, the Lebanese revolutionary movement Hezbollah dealt ...
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Cops extinguish Tent Embassy fire
Cops extinguish Tent Embassy fire By Kim Bullimore and Paul Oboohov CANBERRA — On February 8, ... dispossession and death of indigenous people. Coe explained that the new parliament building was built on top of ... an Aboriginal women's sacred site. Embers from the Fire of Justice and Peace were to be used to ...
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Occupation brings death, corruption and poverty
Iraqi government claimed on December 2 that only 538 Iraqi civilians were killed in war-related violence ... had died from war-related violence that month. On December 4, US Army chief of staff General George ... troops were killed. Nevertheless, 2007 has been the deadliest year on record for the US occupation ...
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Who's afraid of Michael Moore?
not hard to understand: since Washington launched its "war on terror", significant dissent ... Democrats and Republicans hold 90% in common, he also connects the "war on terror" abroad to the ... war on working people within the US. Returning to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, Moore looks at the ...
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Ernest Howard Gare
BY ROBYN MARSHALL Ernie Gare died on August 17 at the age of 86. He was a member of the Communist ... workers, is the only solution to the problems workers face. During the second world war, Ernie moved to ... peace rallies, International Women's Day, Hiroshima Day and Aboriginal protest activities. ...
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Belafonte, people's artists scorch lying US regime
Pueblo recording artist Robert Mirabal on June 29 in welcoming legendary performer Harry Belafonte to the ... beat. Then Belafonte took centre stage to deliver a short, moving talk on the state of that world. He ... in the US Navy in the great war against fascism. I survived the McCarthy era, when the US government ...
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The power of a dream
a huge impact worldwide. In the ensuing war of independence, the Irish won an unprecedented level of ... "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone. It's with O'Leary in the grave." On this Easter ... Dessie Grew. They will spare a thought for the current Irish political prisoners, men and women scattered ...
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Don't forget the magic words (and the chainsaw)
evil force, never to be seen again in the movie — symbolic of the role of women in the story generally. ... into recreating a credible 12th century European civil war. This authenticity helps make the somewhat ... social messages and so on, you will make a different kind of judgment. This is not a movie where you ...
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Peace and justice versus CHOGM
Government Meeting (CHOGM) here on March 2. According to Daniels, three individuals in particular should be ... civil war. Sudanese activist Peter Okello demanded that the Commonwealth pressure the Sudanese ... as International Women's Day, Palm Sunday rallies, and M1 actions against corporate ...
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Medicare being 'murdered' says doctors leader
president Tim Woodruff told 50 people at a public meeting in the town of Dromana, near Melbourne, on ... health care. Kerrilie Rice, a policy and research officer with Women's Health Victoria, spoke of the ... and Extend Medicare Australia, said that "we are involved in an ideological war" over ...
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Australia to blame for refugee drownings
many women and children would not have been on that boat. Islamic leaders have called on the federal ... passengers, picked up more than 400 asylum seekers from Lampung on October 18 to make the journey to Christmas ... was by chance that an Indonesian fishing boat found them shortly after dawn on October 20. Most on the ...
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No prison break-outs
called Angola? Because the people who were kidnapped from Africa and forced to work on the plantation ... there came from Angola. After the US Civil War, the plantation was turned into a prison and filled ... by big caps, play on a baseball field with the prison perimeter fence in view. It's a surreal ...
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Fred Moore: A dream for May Day
the annual May Day march on May 5, a guard of honour holding peace and trade union flags welcomed him ... Miners' Women's Auxiliary. He has been involved in workers' struggles for nearly 70 years ... people on the streets on that day is the ultimate aim. "But you've got to be careful. May Day ...
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Against Neo-liberalism and for Humanity
It democratises misery and hopelessness. A new world war is being fought, against humanity. As in all ... world wars, what is being sought is a new distribution of the world. They call this modern war which ... The indigenous, youth, women, homosexuals, lesbians, people of colour, immigrants, workers, peasants: ...
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Lies, lies and more lies
walk in the corridors handcuffed and naked, or with women's underwear on the head, or being ... she believes the scandal may give impetus to anti-war protests. Protests will be held on June 30 in ... Rohan Pearce On June 1, PM John Howard finally admitted that Australian soldiers had known that US ...
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Afghan refugees: why we should welcome them here
the world, second only to Palestinians. Twenty years of civil war have taken a severe toll on the ... the number of refugees arriving on Australia's shores is a mere trickle, yet the Howard ... that the vast bulk of asylum seekers who have arrived by boat on Australia's shores in the past ...
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Laughing all the way to the guillotine
the height of the Revolution, the most important man in France, on his way to dealing with war and ... pages, $29.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON On June 20, 1789, Dr Guillotin made a significant entry into ... role in life was to be taxed, while having to fork out two-thirds of their tiny incomes on bread, ...
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'Free, free Palestine!'
1 protests, Palestine supporters will protest on May 4 in a Women and Children for Palestine march. Jess ... flags, marched through the city centre as part of an Asia-Pacific regional day of action for Palestine on ... for Labour Struggles (FNPBI) which held a picket outside the US embassy in Jakarta on the day, the ...
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South Africa: Dock workers solidarity with Gaza
threatened to block a ship carrying weapons to Israel during its criminal war on Gaza. Those actions, ... The following press release was issued on February 3 by the secretariat of the Palestinian ... Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee. For more information on the global BDS campaign, ...
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Superheros or super-villains?
Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Billy Crudup "Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring ... anything but typical. This film is based on the groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel — written by Alan Moore ... and drawn by Dave Gibbons — which turned the superhero genre on its head. It junked the traditional ...
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Western Sahara: Saharawi refugees are forgotten victims of conflict
a modern state based on democracy and respect of human rights. This is the same objective that wars were ... Kamal Fadel On August 18, Richard Lugar, chairperson of the US Senate foreign relations committee, ... of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara of the last remaining Moroccan prisoners of war. When Lugar flew ...
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Sri Lanka: Peace and justice for Tamils needs international action
Margaret Gleeson Magan-djin/Brisbane A packed public meeting at Brisbane's Activist Centre on ... informative presentation on the long struggle of Sri Lanka's Tamil-speaking minority against persecution ... in Australia and overseas. Books he has had published in Australia on the Tamil struggle have been ...
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Suffering in the 'lucky country'
courageous action on violence against women in the Exemplary Organisation category, and Bishop Rubin Phillip ... My name is Sue Gilbey. I live in an urban eco-village located on the land of the Kaurna people, in ... that I will endeavour to be as good a custodian of my little bit of land as they were. On October 31, ...
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ISRAEL: Leading human rights advocate dies
activists in Israel, died on July 2 at the age of 68. Shahak, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Hebrew ... Jerusalem refuse to use his telephone on the Sabbath to call for an ambulance for a non-Jew who had ... refuser had acted correctly, even piously. As for Zionism, it was the aftermath of the 1967 war that ...