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Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change
popular perception, these gatherings included women in chadors, workers and clerics — not just the ... Neda Salehi Agha Soltan, shot dead by the Basiji state-run militia on June 20, have appeared on ... placards. On June 25, the BBC said opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi used his website to re-assert ...
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Letters to the editor
agree. In my opinion a feminist or women's liberationist is a woman, who is aware of her oppression ... as a woman and who fights for her liberation. Men who understand this oppression and support women in ... obvious reasons. When men involve themselves in struggles for women's rights and ultimately for ...
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Resistance: 'Why we are socialists'
employers." After the July 24 walkouts against racism, Marina debated One Nation's David Oldfield on the ... as well, war, crime, alienation — you name it. "There is no need for any of these evils — they ... becomes possible to abolish exploitation, which is what the profits of capitalists are based on. Social ...
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Guatemala: The people await true justice
a Latin American court on January 28. The prosecution believe they have compelling evidence that Montt led ... missing during Guatemala's 1960-96 civil war. In 1999, a UN sponsored truth commission found that ... civil war. Until January 14 last year, he had immunity from prosecution as a serving congressman. Human ...
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Stories of Aboriginal survival
Australian government, particularly in the 20th century. From men and women from all walks of life and tribal ... "race" was dying out. He argues that the policy was a biological model based on ... were placed on reserves by force, criminalising any resistance. The fear of a growing Black population ...
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A peace camp in Sarajevo
Sarajevo and being an observation post on the war and the human rights situation. The solidarity objectives ... consisting of about 500 people, mainly from Italian peace organisations, arrived in Sarajevo late on December ... 11 and held the peace demonstration on December 12. There were no casualties among the participants ...
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IRAQ: US holds fire for election
the US public on the war and reducing its chances of re-election. Massacres to come But, as Dickey ... continue its daily air strikes on the city. That same day, US military officials issued a media release ... shelling and tank assaults — failed to retake the rebel city. On May 1, the US marines formally handed over ...
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Help rebuild a free East Timor
destroyed. Yet, the common graffiti on these buildings — "Don't cry East Timor, we will rise from ... involves mostly women using traditional brooms. These women work all day for a kilo of rice. It is ... having been complicit in war crimes against the Timorese, pay reparations. These could be funded by ...
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The French far-left's campaign in the European election
This liberal-libertarian, who backed NATO's war on Serbia, relentlessly proclaims that he is ... impatience) — the constant and dedicated militant activity of thousands of men and women — finally ... non-Communist candidates who rarely agreed on the same issues at the same time, a list which nobody could ...
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Balzac: an unwitting revolutionary
placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by the Pope in 1864 and to have been praised by the ... largely "written by women and read by servants". Balzac shaped the novel into its modern form, ... giving it a social significance by making it "an expression of society". Balzac was on the ...
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ANGOLA: The crisis you aren't hearing about
civilian medical structures. Many are dying of starvation on the roads. Others find themselves in towns and ... Many women were forcibly “married” to UNITA soldiers. Those who fled to the government-held towns found ... just as trapped as those in the UNITA areas. Now the full scale of the devastation is emerging. On ...
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Scapegoating can't save the planet
more because women are empowered. On the other hand, patriarchal values are reinforced by poverty and ... technologically advanced society like Australia is wreaking havoc on the environment. To get rid of the straw ... to all women who want it. In short, there is no argument about whether the world is in serious ...
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Students support radical action
Sydney on May 5. *** I am in Year 11 at a school in Sydney’s inner-west, and like many other high school ... students, I care about refugee and queer rights, as well as for the rights of women, the rights of ... question had already been asked and refused to answer it. That nine-minute video made the rounds on ...
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Brazilian army invades Rio
Masked soldiers, armed with modern guns, violently search even pregnant women and children of eight and ... worker, Jose Luis Sobrinho, was shot in the arm by a marine with a machine gun on November 20. Sobrinho is ... Morro do Borel, was on his way to school on November 26. Soldiers decided to inspect him, found neither ...
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The use-value of postmodernism
this. His recent claim the that the Gulf War "never happened" is not denying that something ... in the Gulf as a "war" is media "hyperreality". This hyperreality obscures ... resembling a "war"; the vicious exploitation, internal and external, perpetrated by Kuwait's ...
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We kid you not
against people and make trouble." — Afghan feminist and anti-war campaigner Malalai Joya in ... the new killer on the block, authorising more drone attacks in the first year of his term in office ... trade, changing the profile of drug dealers, police say... "Most of the women apprehended this year ...
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VENEZUELA: Left populist wins landslide victory
direction have been, so far, mostly only on paper. After considerable legal battles he managed to have a new ... level, indigenous and women's rights, a reduction of the working week and an increase in the minimum ... he has refused to allow the US Air Force to use Venezuelan air space to prosecute the war against ...
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Life of Riley: Dem damn Dems!
with a bang up shootin' war courtesy of Bill Clinton and NATO, 50 Aussie wallopers soon set to ... about it! I'm lucky to know which shoe goes on which foot. What we really need is our own adviser ... Despoja and ethics? You want those things? You want liberated women — sisters doing it for all of us ...
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Life of Riley: Me Darcy, you Jane
for the Napoleonic Wars. Britain was keen to rid Europe of the French disease because its infection ... was spreading even to its own womenfolk. If all men could think they had rights — maybe (their) women ... contemporary mores, but of reality. You could be as rad-fem as you like back in them days — but without jobs on ...
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Writing white history
working-class British women in Sydney? Which of the nation's black sons were dying in custody on Australian ... soil during the period of the Vietnam War? Alongside white euphoria and white tragedy there is also ...
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Media debate conscription
a massive 146%. To a large extent this is due to anti-militarist sentiment in the wake of the Gulf War ... for all men — a scarce improvement for those who would prefer to get on with their lives in ... compulsory service? One solution would be to extend compulsory service to women (and that spectre is already ...
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ZIMBABWE: Creating the tipping point
a war cry at our rallies, people in civic society were using their phones and time to inform on MDC ... Briggs Bomba The cruel impact of the Zimbabwean crisis on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans can no ... beasts preying on each other. Would-have-been engineers and responsible community members are now thugs ...
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'Be realistic, do the impossible'
war, he went on to offer a few reforms to turn back the revolutionary tide. A huge demonstration ... a popular revolt in Czechoslovakia; police and/or the National Guard were deployed on many US campuses; in ... Britain 5000 students fought police outside the US embassy and there was daily strife on campuses. From ...
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Mass campaign needed to stop Reith's 'second wave'
war between the employers and the workers. "We are on the side of profit. We are on the side of ... Perth on August 10, Adelaide on August 11 and Melbourne on August 12. There will be further actions in ... calling on their members to stop work to take part. The demonstrations will consist primarily of workers ...
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Afghanistan: Malalai Joya vs Washington's warlords
nor the US occupation of her country ("the 'war on terror' is a mockery"). ... today is producing 90% of the world's opium. This is taking its toll on women. Now we hear about ... unarmed women in her late twenties: Malalai Joya. To silence Joya's defiant voice, the warlords who ...