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  1. At home with the WASPs

    1966, when the US was on the brink of being blown apart by the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution. No ... Stoyich Edward Albee became one of the US's most famous postwar playwrights almost entirely on the ... of his tribe: their emphasis on control; their obsession with "privacy" and appearing ...

  2. Venezuela: Rural workers march for Chavez

    of peasant workers took to the streets of Caracas on July 26 to hand over a list of programmatic ... Orlando Zambrano, spokesperson for the CRBZ said: β€œThis army of men and women, Bolivarian and Zamoranos, ... we are taking on this historic task. Today we are handing over the proposals of this great debate ...

  3. Union veterans back socialist candidate

    Cunningham on the New South Wales south coast. Highly regarded, veteran trade unionists Monica Chalmers, ... national coordinator of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Lebanese community leader and anti-war ... at the forefront of struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, Aboriginal rights and other social ...

  4. Philippines: Massacre shows why political system must change

    On November 23, 57 people were massacred in the Filipino Magnindanao province by the ruling ... Ampatuan clan that governs it. Many of those killed were journalists. On November 27, the primary suspect ... said: "The victims were in a convoy on their way to file the candidacy of Datu Unsay Vice-Mayor ...

  5. Socialists raise the issues in ACT elections

    "There is a real war going on against young people, carried out by the major parties and their big ... of her own party and Paul Osborne, former Canberra Raiders prop forward, who is running on a platform ... proposals for urban development of green spaces, dual occupancy, women's services including funding of ...

  6. Village life

    2000 dong per year. Five women are members of the 11-person executive. Eight are members of the ... almost totally on food production. Now many machines are in existence. Villagers can now do anything that ... thought that changes to the agricultural tax would be helpful. In the past this was calculated simply on ...

  7. How can one own the sky?

    the Innu into six years of protests. On February 5, representatives of the Innu joined with concerned ... white invasion, the Innu lived nomadically as hunters and fishers on an area of around 5000 square ... used for military exercises β€” it was a strategic refuelling point in the second world war, was of major ...

  8. Australian Tamil: allow refugees in

    refugees. They fled from the war zone area to save their lives. Pregnant women wouldn't come on a boat ... affected by war. Under the program, about 1000 Sri Lankan Tamils were granted visas to Australia each year. ... has detained 300,000 Tamils in concentration camps since the civil war between the government and the ...

  9. The phenomenon of Fahrenheit 9/11: Does this mean a sea-change?

    impact on the people of Britain is said to have helped deter London from entering the Civil War on the ... like rain on a cultural landscape thirsting for the unvarnished truth. People are clamouring to see it ... end of the day on farms and in cities in the US north, reading it aloud and weeping. The book was ...

  10. Worldwide protests demand asylum for Ocalan

    causes of war" in Kurdistan. "There can be no humane explanation for genocidal attacks on ... Worldwide protests demand asylum for Ocalan By Norm Dixon A Rome court on November 20 ordered the ... release on bail of Abdullah Ocalan, general secretary of the left-wing pro-independence Kurdistan Workers ...

  11. CUBA: 'Our weapons are morality, reason and ideas'

    denounced the US war on terrorism. He continues to view terror as a legitimate tactic to further ... BY FIDEL CASTRO The following is an abridged version of a statement issued on May 10 by Cuban ... weapons (BW). John Bolton, an undersecretary of state [told the right-wing Heritage Foundation on May 6]: ...

  12. Epic novel of the French Revolution

    Robespierre, three famed leaders of the French Revolution who did go on to rule the nation in the five ... the bourgeoisie and the poor, under the threat of counter-revolution and war, advanced the Revolution, ... capitalists' liberty and profits for the war and the republic. The Jacobins under Robespierre did just this ...

  13. Activists oppose Malaysian and Australian 'anti-terrorism' laws

    trumped up charges of being a terrorist. After describing the US-led Β“war on terrorismΒ” as Β“the biggest ... Friends of Women Organisation, and Mabel Au, from the Committee for Asian Women, are visiting Australia to ... He was involved in many progressive campaigns while in Australia. Chua was arrested on April 10, ...

  14. PUK attacks human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan

    On February 16, the PUK's security forces in Sulaymaniyah arrested Ammar Sharif, Fahid Nasser ... leaders of the General Union of the Displaced (which campaigns on behalf of Arab political refugees from ... the Iraqi south). The three remain in detention. Prior to that, on January 21, armed PUK men in ...

  15. Letter from the US: Refugees facing brutality, injustice

    through the β€œwar on drugs”, which is really a war to keep drugs illegal and the source of super-profits. ... Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups said. Widespread abuse β€œChildren are being abused on a huge and ... makeshift holding areas at the McAllen, Texas, Border Patrol station. The videos show dozens of women and ...

  16. Revolution in Bloom: Occupy Chicago launches Rebel Arts Collective

    Economy Books & music This is an abridged version of an article that first appeared on ... veterans of the ’60s anti-war movement, have reprised old classics for protesters in Liberty Square. ... a big publisher of Irish poetry in North America. β€œArtists live on the edge at the same time as they are ...

  17. First-hand view of Vietnam's revolution

    talks in Fiji on normalisation of relations with the United States, in which Madame Binh participated as ... Governor-General Hayden. Madame Binh also met number of aid organisations and the Union of Australian Women. Madame ... Binh agreed to be interviewed by ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ on her role in the historic Paris negotiations. The US was ...

  18. Amnesty leader campaigns against death penalty

    violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death ... penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International USA, told ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly on March 18. ... the start of a 12-day Australian visit to inform and update Australians on the nature and extent of ...

  19. Bow down to the flag? No thanks

    isn't whitebred, and wearing it as a cape while they go off on super hero adventures to bash up women ... Emma Clancy Paul Williams Resistance! On January 21, Prime Minister John Howard condemned the ... statement issued on January 24, the socialist youth organisation Resistance labelled Howard's and the ...

  20. Sport, race and colonialism

    football part of Australian Rules. Yet Wills was nearly a victim of the settlers' racist land wars ... 17 others on their sheep station in central Queensland in 1861. The station was attacked by the local ... syphilis and Aboriginal women made infertile through gonorrhoea. Many Queensland Aboriginal tribes, ...

  21. 'Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!' ― Palestine BDS National Committee

    stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new world based on democracy, human rights and ... profiting from wars, pillage, environmental destruction, repression and impoverishment. We must unite in our ... join hands in the struggle against wars and corporate exploitation, and for a human friendly world ...

  22. Hope, terror and youth rebellion

    Simon Butler Looking back on the political movements of the '60s and '70s is now ... movements demanding women's equality, queer equality, racial equality and an end to the West's ... wars of aggression and conquest. The modern environmental movement also originates from this time. The ...

  23. Cultural Insurrection: Cuban Literacy at 50

    Donald Duck, an iconic attack on cultural imperialism β€” reduced illiteracy from 15.2% to 6.3% in under ... in power (1980), catapulting women to cultural and political prominence in the process. In 1981, ... precision by teacher-brigades (”brigadistas”), often under conditions of civil war or its aftermath; the pen ...

  24. Israel β€” the case for a union boycott

    settlements, launching an outrageous war against Lebanon and imposing collective punishment on Gaza through the ... we wait for the next time they decide to casually massacre one or two thousand innocent men, women ... Naomi Klein points out in her article "Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction" in The Nation on ...

  25. East Turkestan: Chinese oppression behind riots

    still often occur. China has used the anti-Muslim racism of the West's "war on terror" to ... Tony Iltis On July 5, hundreds were killed in the East Turkestan capital, Urumqi, after protests ... vigilante attacks by Chinese transmigrants against Uyghurs, US TV network ABC reported on July 8. The July ...

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