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British rail union leader: ‘We must back Corbyn and fight for socialism’
organisation of about 84,000 workers, 79,000 of which work on the trains, metro, buses, taxis, as well as about ... 5000 seafarers on British ships. The struggles we’ve been involved in recently have been about the ... profits through cutting staff numbers. People feel vulnerable when there are no staff on stations. The ...
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The Russian Revolution: The greatest of people's movements
worse its behaviour. With the Cold War over, there are more wars going on today than ever. As the ... More than 100 people gathered at Granville Town Hall in Sydney's western suburbs on November ... by-the-minute reports on the latest count give the impression that the outcome is of earth-shattering importance ...
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South Africa: 'Guns not butter' budget criticised
ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been criticised for introducing an annual budget on February ... terms, or just keep pace with inflation, depending on whether the government achieves its goal of a 3-6% ... Government spending on housing and community services has been slashed by 7.7%. Spending on tertiary ...
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Turkey: Youth are still fighting amid plans for People's Assemblies, leftist says
movements and faith groups. It was supported by intellectuals, artists, LGBTI activists, youth, women ... the newly active young people and women. We know that young people are watching HDK closely and many ... was never any hesitation. We met a new generation of youth and women and realised that this new ...
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Letter from the US: Fresh racist Supreme Court ruling
economies were based on involuntary labour. It took another revolution, the bloody Civil War, to overthrow ... on April 22 that states can ban affirmative action in admissions to their public universities. At ... enrollment of Black and Latino students. The racist ruling came on top of last year's Supreme Court that ...
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Beat boys get political
Up", critics pointed to an early Beastie video featuring women in chains. The Boys now say this whole ... image was all due to major label pressure on impressionable youths. However their early success gave the ... Beasties considerable independence. Their second, 1989, album, Paul's Boutique, released on their own ...
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SOUTH KOREA: Growing calls for revision of US troops' status
politicians have moved to control and contain this growing scepticism. On July 24, the National ... of civilians in the village of Nogun-ri during the Korean War made international news. Testimony from ... some of the US troops involved, as well as recently declassified Pentagon documents, shed light on ...
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A step towards European left unity
found themselves working together on key questions such as the Gulf War, the rejection of austerity and ... a massive strike wave against the austerity plans necessitated by Maastricht's stipulations on economic ... launched an appeal for "an assembly of the European left" to be held in Paris on June 12. This ...
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High noon in Nepal — eyewitness to revolution
women, minorities and workers had direct representation. The Maoists were willing to negotiate on almost ... (UCPN-M) Kathmandu On May 1 in Kathmandu, between 500,000-1 million people took over the streets in ... old feudal monarchy had been finally brought down by a combination of ten years of “people’s war ...
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Refounding Bolivia: struggle for the new constitution
Raul Burbano Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum on the ... country's new draft constitution on December 7. The demand of the Bolivian people for a new and inclusive ... political life. On the other side are the vast majority of the Bolivians, with Morales winning more than 67% ...
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The Somalian spiral
replaced the traditional Somali production systems. The indigenous economy was based predominantly on ... nomadic pastoralism. The modern economy that replaced the traditional economy was monetised and based on ... Milking animals were kept here so that the base camp household, composed of the women, children and ...
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Socialism or barbarism?
Marx's important insights on ecology restored, socialism committed to the fight against ecological ... who repeatedly raised it during World War I. It was a profound concept, one that has become ever more ... would become ever more barbaric, wiping out centuries of gains in civilisation. In a major 1915 anti-war ...
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ITALY: Communist Party debates way forward
The closest votes of the entire conference were on the issue of women's participation in the PRC. ... Amendments from women delegates opposing a quota of at least 40% female representation on leadership bodies ... and proposing instead a sustained attack on the real causes of lack of women comrades' ...
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AFGHANISTAN: Washington reins in its 'liberators'
Washington, London, Pakistan and other supporters of the "war on terrorism" were insisting that ... were also on sale. Some of the braver women lifted their burqas to reveal their faces to Western ... reporters (but quickly replaced them once the journalists had moved on). The NA has declared that women will ...
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Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sanctions
organisation on November 4 said that 2.3 million Iraqis — mostly women and children — have fled their homes in ... economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul" and Irbil, capital of the ... would have a devastating impact on the economy of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is dependent on supplies coming ...
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Kashmir: freedom struggle confronts barbarism
to intimidate one another have raised a real danger of a nuclear war. These capabilities were ... improved little since China's 1962 war with India. The US has frequently meddled in the subcontinent, ... Muslims, as opposed to their Hindu competitors who dominated the rest of India. Pakistan seized on the ...
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John Paul II: patron saint of anti-modernism
drew 1.5 million of the devout to Rome on May 1 for the beatification ceremony of Karol Wojtyla, Pope ... canonisation of Pius XII, who was pope during World War II. While attention has been drawn to John Paul II’s ... woeful record on the issue of sexual abuse within the church, little has been said about the reasons for ...
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The real threat to peace in the Middle East
Australian government — has been any mention of the PLO 's real position on the Gulf War or the ... to feed her baby on the balcony of her apartment in Nablus. Ibrahim Abu-Jalal was shot dead for ... of Palestinian-Israeli peace on the basis of a two-state settlement. Nusseibeh was arrested and ...
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Moore recounts a trouble-making history
on Abraham Lincoln and the civil war that ended slavery, Moore attacked the contest’s sponsor, the ... can’t women become priests. As Moore had to be reminded by Church authorities, “you either have to ... a reluctant Moore declined an appearance on national TV — “there wasn’t enough Clearasil in the world to get ...
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White lies about Black Australia
she emphasises reports of violent treatment of women within Aboriginal society. She counterposes her ... primitive communism, which holds that Aboriginal society was based on shared poverty, depending on the ... when the Aborigines experienced the life of free workers as army labourers during World War II, then ...
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CUBA: Intellectuals launch campaign against US provocations
BY MARCE CAMERON On May 1, 160 foreign intellectuals and artists — including Nobel Prize winners ... along with Iraq, Iran and North Korea, on Washington's "hit list" of states allegedly ... in the wake of the arrest and imprisonment of 75 Cubans in early April on charges of collaboration ...
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Ten years of ALBA’s achievements celebrated
domination and instead focuses on sustainable development with social justice, the right of Latin America ... growing power of the United States. When it was founded on December 14, 2004 by Chavez and then-Cuban ... positions. The ALBA countries, as an anti-imperialist bloc, has also made strong statements against US wars ...
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John Pilger: 'Put out more flags'
held in 1938 on the 150th anniversary of the white invasion. Over a thousand Aboriginal men and women ... John Pilger The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the ... modern Australia's pride in the arts. On the contrary, the closure reflected a more general shutting ...
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Why free speech matters
a advocate of free speech. He is the author of Slapping on the Writs: Defamation, Developers and Community ... Activism. On May 8, he addressed a rally in Brunswick, Melbourne, which called on the local Barkly Square ... shopping centre to end its ban on community stalls. Barkly Square is a privately owned shopping mall. The ...
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3 million Palestinian refugees wait
study on Palestinian refugees, written by three Palestinian scholars, Bilal Shakhsheer, Waheed Qirsh and ... war and those fleeing the 1967 war. The first group is known simply as "refugees" while the ... 300,000 refugees. This insistence on a significantly lower estimate, and the ongoing deliberations on who ...