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  1. Much to say about Whitlam

    opposition outside the ALP". Both were commenting on Whitlam, and both adequately condemned the show for ... Labor leader as a sort of Australian folk hero. "Why has every Labor leader since relied on the ... society. There was something deep and genuine about that sentiment. Labor rode the anti-Vietnam war ...

  2. A World to Win β€” Transgender liberation

    transgender women from the Umayyad Caliphate recall them as being flippant, just as Hollywood portrays them to ... distinct genders before the US government put them on reservations. Indigenous Siberians thought intersex ... narratives. ILLEGAL TO BE TRANS Christine Jorgensen, a Danish-American World War II veteran, is widely ...

  3. Honduras: β€˜They're afraid because we aren’t’

    β€” reminiscent of the Central American β€œdirty wars” run by US-trained militaries in the 1980s. But there is also ... States, the regime installed by the coup has held on. Fraudulent elections in November, boycotted by ... a large majority of the population, brought Porfirio Lobo Sosa to power. On January 27, the day of Lobo’s ...

  4. The revolutionary life and tumultuous times of Ernest Mandel

    aged 71 on July 20, 1995. These two documentaries reveal why he was so respected but also expose ... International and worked closely with Belgian union leader Andre Renard on developing a radical program for the ... particularly the rise of Lumumba's nationalist government in the Congo and the Algerian revolutionary war ...

  5. A gripping tale of mighty class struggle

    oasis of Morelos allowed Carranza to seize the hour and make war on Villa. Villa's political ... the moment did not last and seven more years of ferocious civil war finished off the revolution. Frank ... capitalists prospered on the foundations of murderous repression of the rest of the population. With a severe ...

  6. Colombia: Political prisoner freed after international campaign

    International Network in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (INSPP) received the wonderful news on February ... be released on bond the next day. Obando had been in jail for three years and seven months on charges ... of "rebellion". Obando was arrested on August 8, 2008 while serving as the human rights ...

  7. Nepal: UN withdraws amid deadlock

    β€œinterim government”. The nation is on a knife’s edge, with the real danger of civil war if the political ... peace accords. On the other, there is mass involvement and participation of Nepalis, inclusion of women ... Nepal on January 18 over the importing of weapons from India. MK Nepal did not deny that military ...

  8. United States: The Republican right's new face

    support among women voters will have its day among the cable TV talking heads. But it won't happen on ... on the Family. "[P]icking Sarah Palin may go down in political history as a masterful stroke of ... Republicans and only the second ever for the two major parties β€” would help McCain appeal to women voters ...

  9. Indonesian generals unlikely to be punished for genocide

    December 31 and then to the UN General Assembly on whether it should set up an international war crimes ... could have been killed in the post-ballot violence. On November 22, Hasibuan said that he said he found ... seeing TNI trucks remove bodies, while others were burned on the spot. Witnesses told the commission that ...

  10. For democracy and socialism

    indomitable courage of the Soviet army and the citizens and peoples of the Soviet Union [in World War II], and ... a state based on law, and democratic freedoms for the masses and for nationalities cannot be guaranteed. ... great majority of working men and women are subject to the despotism of the wealthy. This is no less ...

  11. United States: Obama and the elephant in the room

    using the fear of a Black man with white women in US society. Race matters Will the US overcome its ... military record during the Vietnam war. Worse, the pundits have all accepted the false concept of ... campaign has played their hand too carefully on the race-bating issue. The campaign has a strategic fear ...

  12. Richard Flanagan's timely terrorist

    "war on terror". The need for continuing terrorist threats becomes so acute that terrorists need ... stopped mobilising against the Howard government's drive to war and restrictions on our rights. It is ... an unabashed literary condemnation of the attacks on civil liberties and the "terrorist" ...

  13. John Pilger: The Leveson press inquiry β€” oh, what a lovely game

    on the BSkyB deal. Shock, horror. Offering glimpses of the power and petty gangsterism of the British ... rolled on, bemusement has given way to boredom; Tony Blair was allowed to whine about the Daily Mail ... arrested for war crimes." His Lordship duly apologised to the war criminal and the truth-teller was ...

  14. Josh White: The forgotten singer

    family, becoming a guide and tambourine player for the town's blind blues artists. On their travels, ... militancy". During the war, White continued to perform songs highlighting the race and class hypocrisies of ... a war, touted as saving freedom and equality, waged by a country that practised discrimination and ...

  15. Carlo's Corner: We can thank Labor for Abbott

    parliamentary caucus to do except launch yet another leadership spill on March 21. It might have been a farce ... destroying the planet. No, they fell on their swords because they backed the losing side in a leadership ... on services last year, polls showed he would lose his own seat in an election. But not even direct ...

  16. Sydney uni SRC endorses academic boycott of Israel

    University of Sydney released the statement below on April 12, after the Student Representative Council voted ... Jerusalem which is internationally recognised as being on the Palestinian side of the Green Line.” Technion ... university uniquely and directly implicated in war crimes. [Its] research history includes the development of ...

  17. Mary Travers: the music will endure

    Paul and Mary, died on September 16 after treatment for leukaemia. She was 72. She joined forces with ... social movements of that tumultuous decade β€” for civil rights, women's rights, ending the Vietnam ... War. Their songs inspired millions of people to spread a message of peace and justice, and sparked ...

  18. 'We are all Palestinians'

    produced this special broadsheet dedicated to the war on Gaza, to help counter the constant lies coming ... Palestine written by Laila El-Haddad and published on January 4 on Electronic Intifada. "Six paramedics ... say 20 percent of those killed have been children and women." El-Haddad spoke of an interview her ...

  19. Bougainville film shows courage and community

    King and Fabio Cavadini Showing Tuesday, August 1, 7pm at the Side On CafΓ©, 83 Parramatta Road, ... traditional landowners, the women, refused to allow the mine to go ahead after the copper deposit was ... helicopters flown by Australian and New Zealand pilots. Unable to defeat the BRA, the PNG government turned on ...

  20. Bougainville shows its courage and community

    An Evergreen Island Frontyard Films Made by Mandy King and Fabio Cavadini Screening on SBS, 7.30pm ... traditional landowners, the women, refused to allow the mine to go ahead after the copper deposit was ... government turned on ordinary Bougainvilleans; many people were forced into the jungle. Of the 12,000 ...

  21. Big Brother is watching

    itinerant workers, the mentally ill, women on the run from domestic violence, non-English speaking migrants ... issue cards with computer chips Ҁ” so-called smart cards Ҁ” to 7 million pensioners, war veterans, ... information technology and data entry, it will be impossible to prevent a trade in the information on the ...

  22. Ramos' visit: a Filipina's view

    Filipina women are second only to the Aborigines in experiencing domestic violence, almost always within ... gold" has meant that we are now voting with our feet. On August 18, Philippines President Fidel Ramos ... he claims that our nation is on the threshold of being a newly industrialising country. We should be ...

  23. The poetic life of a revolutionary

    principles he went to live in Moscow in 1922. In 1924, after the Turkish war of independence, Hikmet returned ... a futuristic poet; Vera Piraia and other women who strongly influenced his poetry and prose. A general amnesty ... prison on trumped up charges. Between 1929 and 1933, Hikmet published nine books, five collections and ...

  24. Vision for the future

    has had. On our first day we visited Chambuta refugee camp for Mozambicans. "Equipped" for ... fleeing from war- torn Mozambique, often without loved ones. A wall in the administrator's office is ... were lakes and rivers. They held not a drop of water. Women with sunken eyes, walking apparitions, ...

  25. Castro: Without justice, no social development

    United Nations Summit on Social Development, held in Copenhagen in March. The text is from Granma ... International. "Life is built on a dream, and dreams are dreams", as Calderon de la Barca, the famous ... skills from where they are most needed; where women, indigenous peoples, black and other ethnic groups ...

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