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  1. Population and consumption: Two sides of the one coin

    resource consumption on Earth is dependent upon two factors: our individual rates of resource consumption, ... and the total number of people on the Earth. There is widespread global concern that we are coming ... unbalanced. To address this imbalance, we have two options (bar intergalactic travel). On the one hand, we ...

  2. Eritrea: out of the ashes

    country's war-damaged infrastructure. To this end, the entire EPLF army of 95,000 young men and women has ... rolled into this Eritrean capital atop captured Soviet tanks on May 24, jubilant citizens poured out of ... people of Eritrea remain elated over the end of their 30-year war for independence. But the dancing is ...

  3. 500 Years of Plunder β€” from Columbus to corporate America

    cannon fodder, of 25,000 mobilised during the Second World War, 10,000 died. On December 16, 1492, ... ir mandate. Among the Iroquois, men and women govern on an equal footing. Chiefs are men, but they ... essential aspects of the life of the confederation. Around 1600 when the Iroquois men launched a war on ...

  4. The ALP left: isolated from socialism

    poor to the rich. It has betrayed on the environment, on women's rights, on Aboriginal rights, on ... ALP: A prison for the left", (GLW #160) in which I argued that a socialist strategy based on ... privatisation and on student fees. The federal Labor government is an ally of the brutal military junta in ...

  5. Ariel Sharon: a man without a conscience

    into refugee camps and villages. In one notorious attack on Jordan in 1953, Unit 101, under ... Sharon's command, slaughtered 69 civilians, over half of them women and children, when they blew up their ... Israelis who took random blood revenge on Bedouins for Arab attacks on Israeli settlements. By this time ...

  6. Tamils speak out against genocide

    what's going on in the country. It's a matter of urgency at the moment to put an end to this war ... a result of oppressive policies against the Tamil minority on the island, and successive Sri Lankan ... civilians are trapped in a "no-fire zone" on a narrow stretch of land. The zone is under a brutal ...

  7. PNG attacks central Bougainville

    capital, Arawa, in the early hours of October 21. The attack is likely to reignite the bitter guerilla war ... women of good will" to condemn this act of military aggression directed against the defenceless ... expressed in recent resolutions passed by the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights and the ...

  8. BRA controls 80% of Bougainville, says Gillespie

    Papua New Guinea government that it is in control of the island. Speaking to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly on March ... land. They are determined to fight on, to win independence." Gillespie travelled extensively in ... central and southern Bougainville. "Everywhere I went the landowners β€” who are traditionally women ...

  9. How London's terror scare looks from Beirut

    course, in the "war on terror", where β€” if he really searched for real motives β€” my favourite ... of the Israeli version of the "war on terror" β€” a conflict to which Paul and the lads in ... happened to be on the bridge. In the real world, we call that a war crime. Indeed, it's a crime worthy ...

  10. Howard's racist country: a better Australia is possible

    Canberra has used the post-9/11 "war on terror" as a pretext to paint Muslim Australians as ... Labor's uncritical support for the "war on terror" and its eagerness to adopt the language of ... people that the "war on terror" is a hoax being used by the Howard government as a pretext for ...

  11. West manipulates refugees' plight to pressure Zaire rebels

    intended to apply maximum pressure on the ADFL to agree to share power with the remnants of the brutal ... On April 23, UN secretary general Kofi Annan urged all governments to use their diplomatic influence ... arrives. The western forces are conducting frequent training manoeuvres on the Zaire River to show they ...

  12. Europe's refugee crisis: 'Legal pathways are the only alternative'

    Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos told a press conference on January 25. He was warning Europe that its ... On the ground, they worry more about the safety of refugees rather than security or the Schengen ... interview in December. Down on the beaches of Lesbos, refugees are more stoic: β€œNo trouble with the police ...

  13. ECUADOR: People power forces Oxy oil contract cancellation

    announced on May 15 that the contract for oil exploration and exploitation by US-owned Occidental Petroleum ... was being cancelled. The minister said the decision was based on legal transgressions by the company, ... accused of 42 legal violations, including environmental destruction and spying on protesters. Rodriguez ...

  14. Tsunami victims abandoned by government

    From Nicaragua, STEPHEN MARKS reports on the aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the ... country's Pacific coast. El Transito was a small fishing village on the coast. We had recently been there ... for a Sunday afternoon swim; people fished in the surf, and small children played on the beach and in ...

  15. Freeing Julian Assange β€” the last chapter

    unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention β€” an international tribunal that ... Extradition Warrant, itself now discredited by Parliament. The UN Working Group bases its judgments on the ... European Convention on Human Rights and three other treaties that are binding on all its signatories. Both ...

  16. Time to unite for a strong Socialist Alliance

    BY RAUL BASSI I am thrilled about the level of discussion on left unity. I have never before seen ... politics and trade unionism. The best I can do is try to pass on some experiences learned in those years. ... capitalist system and the political institutions in absolute crisis, the left groups have focused on their ...

  17. Protests reclaim King’s real legacy

    Francisco This year’s celebrations of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, a national holiday on ... birthday … was punctuated by protest,” New York Times said on January 19, β€œas a new generation of ... Vietnam War in the 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was president β€” β€œHey, Hey LBJ! How many kids did you ...

  18. 'Syria's fate must not be decided by foreign powers or forces'

    Syrian government waged merciless war on its own people. Some of the revolutionaries argued that for ... repression it faced. However, the extreme violence and unspeakable cruelty, including the use of torture on ... other nonviolent mass actions. Once militarisation began, leadership came to depend on access to guns ...

  19. Abbott's twisted job application

    women might make of his patronising sexism is an interesting question. Abbott supports a national ... conservative women politicians; it is just one of many examples of his insular point of view. Abbott brings new ... quagmire of war in Afghanistan β€” none of it looms large in the Abbott world view. This is the man who has ...

  20. Zimbabwe's two dictatorships

    and the rich. While Mugabe unleashes repression, businesspeople unleash vicious price increases on the ... exposed earlier this year as having splashed billions on posh cars and mansions. The bosses and many of ... has called for a national mass action in the form of a stay-away on April 3-4. The economic, social ...

  21. Pakistan: Left groups unite

    alliances on the issue of water in Sind. It has a mass base among women in Sind." Tariq explained that ... in Pakistan. On March 18, a rally was held in Lahore to mark the third year of the occupation of ... Iraq. The AJT will hold a public meeting on April 21 in Karachi to oppose the military action in ...

  22. EAST TIMOR: The cost of neoliberal advice

    those with less education who are engaged in agriculture and for vulnerable categories such as war ... widows and orphans. The report found that there is significant discrimination against women in areas such ... as education and employment. Half of women in intimate relationships reported being victims of some ...

  23. INDONESIA: Political prisoners record their experiences

    who was second secretary-general of Gerwani (the Indonesian Women's Movement) when the dreadful ... repression began on October 1, 1965. She spent 20 years in prison, 13 in solitary confinement, without even ... elements, however. On the eve of the workshop a demonstration was held outside the parliament building by ...

  24. IRAQ: The right to resist

    unintentional 'collateral' casualties" than US forces. "Rhetoric aside, this is not a war on ... committee hearing on February 3. Kennedy missed the point: thousands of Iraqis are fighting for their ... Brooking Institute's Iraq Index cited 2100 attacks on occupation forces in February compared to 2300 ...

  25. 'Palestinians must unite to tackle occupation'

    a local one for us. Israel August 11, 2012 933 The Gaza Strip after Israel's 2008-09 war on the ... party that is part of the Palestinian liberation movement. Badra is on a tour of Australia to speak ... Egyptian government might open its borders with Gaza and alleviate Israel's near-total siege on the ...

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