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'We will never give up our struggle' β a voice from the Saharawi refugee camps
Saharawi women on the best way to report our rights and shed light on our situation. The long period of no ... the pro-independence Polisario Front that supposed to include a referendum on self-determination, ... war and no peace has left us without, and with no option but to try to rebuild our lives here in the ...
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Matty Johns' free ride back to fame
TV on March 25, with the "family-friendly" Matty Johns Show being hailed ... a "success" by reviewers. Last May, he was suspended from his hosting role on Channel 9's league coverage ... and The Footy Show after allegations were aired on ABC's Four Corners about what is now ...
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Eureka the Brave
hanging for treason. These were men with strong views about justice. So too were the women who sewed the ... beliefs. Glenn Withers is the great-great-great-grandson of Anastasia Withers, one of three women who sewed ... the Eureka flag. Peter Lalor came from a political family deeply engaged in the Irish land wars of the ...
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PALESTINE: A town under house arrest
On January 25, Israeli troops rolled into the town of Saida and placed the whole village under ... Australian aid worker Donna Mulhearn, who sent the following report on January 27. I am writing this by ... ago. It is dark and cold, but for the glow of the kerosene heater and two candles on the coffee table. ...
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The system's not working β time for a change
tells us something different. Young people know the future on offer β poverty, unemployment, an ... education system based on competition and subordination, cuts to health care and the dole, shit pay, ... mind-numbing McJobs... the list goes on. And the government isn't going to change things. They're the ...
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Media bash 'single mums'
degree" has hit on a sure-fire target for the politics of hate and scapegoating: those selfish women who ... 1970s. The war on single mothers, like the entire offensive against people's right to social ... child. Stories are emerging, too, of the many non-indigenous women who had their babies stolen from them ...
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US left weighs the next steps
achieve? These questions, and more, remain open. "We now have to organise systematic discussions on ... gathering. General agreement among participants from a wide range of political backgrounds on the importance ... of the mass social movements, women's rights, the African American struggle, and the centrality ...
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U.S. alternative to 'the evil of two lessers'
also international relations secretary for the Green Party of the USA. In Prague on his way to an ... a group of academics drafted a platform of 10 key values based on the four pillars of the German Greens. ... between 1985 and 1990. With 100,000 on the rolls and up to 15,000 active members, the party is strongest ...
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Cambodia's missing criminals
John Pilger John Pilger At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the ... room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people ... Cambodia. In 1973, B-52s dropped more bombs on Cambodia's populated heartland than were dropped on ...
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Left makes big gains in German, Portuguese elections
insecurity the rule. It is a government that has waged war on teachers and civil servants like none before. ... Two articles below are by the Die Linke (The Left Party) in Germany on its significant gains in ... Viewpoint on the Portuguese elections, which resulted in significant losses for the ruling party and big ...
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Ken Fry, 1920-2007
apparently irreconcilable differences β like laying a wreath for Women Against Rape in war at the Australian ... one of the speakers 'went on about the bloke as though he was a blessed saint β¦ I hope they ... don't go on about me like that when I go β¦'." These were the opening words of the first of ...
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Legislating racism
Howard's ideological and moral compass. As was the case with the US-led war on Iraq, the Howard government ... for nothing else, that is reason enough to oppose the intervention. Just as support for the war on ... Leslie Richmond As the federal government's Northern Territory intervention grinds on with an ...
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Workers must unite against racism
accept attacks on "others", all "outsiders" are at risk. This racism against refugees ... the bosses will be tempted to launch assaults on jobs, wages and conditions, using racism as part of ... social gains of the last 30 years β abortion rights, women in the workplace, child care β will suffer ...
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Tarzan, a colonial symbol of bigotry
World War I in an early Tarzan book, but by having it done by a man who, though white, was barely above ... Clayton, the son of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were abandoned by mutineers on the African coast, was ... in the British empireβs wars (βthe noblest monument of historic achievement upon a thousand ...
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Seeds of death
the war in Zimbabwe ended in 1979, on the eve of independence, 1 million acres [400,000 hectares] of ... By Fernando Gonçalves Residents of the small southern Mozambican town of Namaacha, on the border ... a local soft drinks factory, now abandoned. In 1984, at the height of the war in Mozambique, the factory ...
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Tony Greig: A racist with a Channel Nine 'job for life'
a bitter, greedy, racist and sexist (the way he describes women who pop up on his screen is abhorrent) man ... Englandβs series against the West Indies in 1977: βThe West Indians, these guys, if they get on top theyβre ... Viv Richards. It was now not just a cricket match, it took on much greater significance. Richards ...
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COLOMBIA: Is the FARC a terrorist outfit?
on pressure for the FARC to be included in lists of supposed terrorists. And Γ’ΒΒ to justify its war ... world terrorism, are the US administration and their main war allies, including Uribe, who heads ... the victims of neoliberalism and globalisation, which have been imposed by the United States on all ...
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Young people are the hope for the future
younger comrades on the big issues of the day: climate change; racism; war and the ongoing struggles for ... their corporate plans β but don't count on it saving the world's poverty-stricken majority or ... our environment. If there are fortunes to be made from war and misery, there will be fortunes to be ...
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El Salvador: FMLN leader visits Australia
name is Maria Navarette but you are more commonly known as Maria Chichilco. Why is that? During the war ... got to know me as Maria Chichilco. It was given to me by the people during the war. For that reason it ... for the Family, Women and Children. Both consist of deputies from all the political parties ...
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'Boycott Israel' campaign challenges apartheid
integrity and falsely accused them of anti-Semitism. The war on BDS is part of a concerted effort to ... Recently, Federal MP Andrew Robb on ABC radio attacked the Greens accusing them of being anti-Semitic. Does ... Robb has indulged himself with on air. The call to boycott Israel did not come about because Israel has ...
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Britain: Left unity push amid austerity turmoil
β lost heavily in municipal elections in England on May 2 to the United Kingdom Independence Party ... 1994, was eventually torn apart by the personal top-down control on which he insisted and his refusal to ... significant forces from the Labour left. It was split when the SP walked out in opposition to SA being run on ...
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South Korea: the failed miracle
tuition fees and the arrest of their student council leader outside Myongji University on April 26 when ... cabinet and the disbanding of the riot police. On May 1 in Seoul, 20,000 students and workers fought ... pitched battles with riot police after holding a May Day rally on the campus of Yonsei University. Using ...
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Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged
ethnic minority, have become indefinite βprisoners of warβ ever since the LTTE was militarily defeated by ... surrendered during the last stage of war. The fate of some is unknown, while others have been located in ... started to βresettleβ in her war-ravaged hometown in the largely Tamil north, she has made just a few ...
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Byron: high-voltage radicalism
the Continent in 1809. The horrors of the French/Spanish war and the theft of Greece's ... archaeological treasures by Lord Elgin, however, awoke him to the ills of the world. One of the worst ills was on ... used his maiden speech to oppose a bill to make frame-breaking a capital offence and to heap scorn on ...
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UNITED STATES: Will 'imperial overreach' lead to the draft?
war secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is increasingly relying on "stop loss" orders, which prevent ... Global War on Terrorism" and that because of the 24-month cap on reservists' mobilisation ... Rohan Pearce "I hear there's rumours on the internets [sic] that we're going to ...