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1. Behind the blather

   times more unrepresentative than Labor." Coalition bracket creeps On the Centre for Policy ... Development website Ian McAuley has analysed the Coalition's tax cut bonanza, based on Treasury's ... of Tasmania: "Major changes like women being able to vote or bringing troops out of the Vietnam ...

2. Demystifying Nazism

   self-preservation. The setting is a farmhouse on the English Channel island of Guernsey, to which Jeanne Becquet ... Jeanne is a pragmatist who keeps the Nazis on side for the sake of her daughter and daughter-in-law. ... when the daughter-in-law, Lily (Lee Lewis), finds a naked man washed up on the beach. The unconscious ...

3. Refugees from Burma's dictators

   By Kirsty Sangster and Lia Kent "Before I came in to Thailand, I sat on the River Moi bank, ... on the borderline, very close to Thailand. In 1984, Burmese troops came and attacked Maesot... I set ... out on foot looking for a safe place, and went into the forest and found a small river, and stayed ...

4. John Pilger: Murdoch a cultural Chernobyl

   to be brutal about it, better we get it done now." His most successful war has been on ... Sheffield, on April 15, 1989. Eddie's 14-year-old son, Adam, died in his arms. The "main reason for ... urinated on the brave cops" and "Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life". All of it was ...

5. 'Puerto Rico is not for sale'

   on July 7. On June 18, 6000 workers in the two unions representing PRTC workers went on strike ... The powerful Electrical Workers Union went on strike for three days, water authority workers struck ... Bar Association, Fermín Arraíza, and the president of the Puerto Rican Commission on Civil Rights, ...

6. How socialism can be won

   Capitalism can't permanently satisfy the needs of the majority — the working class, farmers, women ... , ethnic and racial minorities and so on. The working class, the producing class, has the power to stop ... had to sack me"? That's why there are often struggles going on: strikes in factories and ...

7. Is Germany going fascist?

   interests. On the domestic front it wants to increase the police apparatus and restrict democratic rights, so ... Union (CDU)/Free Democratic Party (FDP) coalition government are on the rise. The economic needs of ... they treat women badly; they are more prone to be violent and; they are dirty. This hate propaganda ...

8. Howard's offensive — resist!

   not worth going to war on Iraq, while 40% thought it was. Seventy-four per cent were in favour of the ... fast over the next 12 months and we need to be ready to respond. On October 23, attorney-general Philip ... detain and strip-search children as young as 12. According to Ruddock, these attacks on civil liberties ...

9. Solidarity with refugees can beat Abbott’s plans

   SBS’s Dateline revealed about Nauru's detention centre workers on March 4. Women who have suffered ... Refugees & migrants Jay Fletcher The federal Coalition government is set on a path of ... this is the large-scale selling out of action on climate change along with important natural ...

10. PM should say: ‘I do’ to equal marriage rights

    Sydney, at a rally for equal marriage rights in Sydney on May 25. *** Let me begin by acknowledging that ... we are gathering here today on stolen Aboriginal land, the land of the Gadigal people that was never ... a whole range of things other than equal marriage rights: • The ongoing war against Aboriginal people and ...

11. Merak Tamil refugees warn of deportation threat

    seekers in the Indonesian port of Merak. The rally recognised that without those on board the boat at ... "Indonesian solution". Rally participants wrote messages of support for the refugees on a giant calico ... in Perth on December 5. On December 2, messages came from the asylum seekers in port at Merak that ...

12. How far can Mardi Gras take us?

    anti-Vietnam War and women's movements decided that the transformation of society they were seeking ... in the nuclear family, which survives solely on the unpaid labour of women. Such a system is not ... lesbian Mardi Gras undoubtedly has a positive impact on attitudes, the daily experience of people sexually ...

13. Forgotten legacy of Subic Bay

    country. Most of the young women have also departed. The local people who worked on the base received large ... stationed at Subic. While there are no official figures on how many Amerasian children were abandoned by ... Amerasian children, on the other hand, is only now beginning to receive the attention it has long deserved. ...

14. A Nobel loan shark?

    bank" specialising in group loans to low-income women. And the Vanderbilt University-trained economist ... war against poverty will be further intensified across the world. It will consolidate the struggle ... three-decade-old attempt to foster entrepreneurship amongst impoverished women has attracted intense grassroots ...

15. The politics behind the carbuncles

    of women's suffrage and trade unions, and a barbed critic of monarchy, Church, imperialism and ... a slow process of learning and experience. The American Civil War, and its central issue of slavery, ... scene. As much as Clemens blamed politicians and state officials who were "for sale or rent on the ...

16. The Maohi people's fight for justice

    testing over 180 nuclear bombs (1966-92) on their islands. They are moving to reassert their inalienable ... in outrage to Chirac's resumption of nuclear testing, has kept significantly silent on the issue ... the costs of colonisation. President of the Women's Association of Tavini Huiraatira, Marguerite ...

17. Pentagon plans second Iraq 'surge'

    reported." The NYT added: "Never before has the United States gone to war with so many civilians on the ... While public support in the US for Washington's counterinsurgency war in Iraq has collapsed, ... US voters opposed President George Bush's May 1 veto of a US$124 billion war spending bill that ...

18. India: Anti-poor policies made worse by crisis

    spoke with Krishnan on the crises of war and economic collapse, and the response of India's rulers. ... "war on terror" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Indian ruling class's slavish pro-US policy ... Kavita Krishnan is the national secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association ...

19. Letter from the US: Sex scandal diverts attention from threat to Iraq

    residences during the Gulf War, and stated just a few months ago that they would be targets again, along with ... make nerve gas, to bolster Iraq's war against the Iranian revolution in the 1980s. lDuring that ... war, Iraq used nerve gas against Kurds within Iraq, killing tens of thousands. This was reported at the ...

20. Scotland challenges Britain's two-party rule

    Labour have ruled out a formal coalition with the SNP, but may depend on the votes of Scottish ... to form an effective block with the women leading the Greens and Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru ... Britons had relied on food banks in 2014. The referendum allowed Scots to imagine a different, better ...

21. Global inequality report: Can a 'broken' system be fixed?

    amount of wealth as half the world. The report was released on the eve of one of the biggest global ... rich and spend those billions on essential services. The 43-page report, which draws from Credit Suisse ... adds that tax avoidance and governments cutting taxes on capital gains have added to the problem. ...

22. Letter from the US: Green Party challenges two-party fraud

    invited to speak at a rally. Officially, Obama stayed silent on the strike, but he did not need to speak ... insurance program for all, and fighter on environmental issues. She successfully opposed building trash ... illegal wars being waged by Washington and called for closing the nearly 1000 US military bases around the ...

23. The power of ordinary solidarity

    $24.99 (pb) When Donna Mulhearn heard a former US marine on Triple J radio in January 2003 appealing for ... Iraq. Although the human shields got on each others' nerves and bickered, as any collection of ... among them, contrary to what the Western media and governments alleged. To say that opponents of the war ...

24. Youth festival in Venezuela

    "war on terror" and the threat of weapons of mass destruction. This policy has resulted in the ... conference, to be held in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 7-15.] The youth make up one of the most progressive, ... alternative against the neoliberal policies. The massive, global mobilisations against the war in Iraq, the ...

25. Unstable compound

    Britain into the Korean War on the side of the US, the sale of British military ships to Pinochet ... movement's campaign for the right to vote for women and the eventual granting of universal suffrage in 1929. ... compound" of capitalism and democracy and its effects on the various Labour administrations elected in ...

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