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  1. End ties with the Indonesian dictatorship!

    either killed by Suharto's military or from starvation, the result of the war of occupation. All the ... world knows that more than 200 people were killed at the Dili massacre on November 12, 1991. All the ... Association); Zohl de Ishtar (Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific); All Burma Students Democratic ...

  2. New book details key congress of revolutionary international

    gatherings seems to drag on interminably. Refreshingly, for a variety of reasons, this 1200-page compendium ... days, was a passive tool in Moscow’s hands is dispelled in these pages. Important issues were on the ... including the dispute over World War I (that split the socialist movement into opportunist forces that ...

  3. Regional left groups: 'Support Tamil refugees'

    The article below is slightly abridged from a joint statement released on November 5 by the ... fleeing war and oppression in Sri Lanka. Instead, they treat them like criminals. The Australian ... convention. For weeks, more than 250 Tamil-speaking people, including children, remain in dire conditions on ...

  4. Regional left groups: 'Support Tamil refugees'

    The article below is slightly abridged from a joint statement released on November 5 by the ... Malaysia refuse to accept the latest wave of Tamil asylum seekers fleeing war and oppression in Sri Lanka. ... Tamil-speaking people, including children, remain in dire conditions on a boat in Merak, Indonesia. Another 78 ...

  5. PALESTINE: Rafah tonight and the morality of the Israeli Army

    hospital's gate. Tens of families in the village were forced to leave their homes; children, women and men ... and its charters regarding civilians and the safety of health teams working during war times? This ... don't have electricity, we don't have clean water. The war boats patrol the sea and the helicopters ...

  6. Solidarity can stop Howard's union busting

    education and transport off-limits to industrial action. These things are a serious attack on the rights and ... Howard gang has cooked up. In the post-war period before the election of the Gough Whitlam Labor ... bosses, all worked up in a lather, aren't afraid of talking class war. Some don't even want to ...

  7. 'we all need to work together for a better place'

    slaughtering our young men and women in wars. "Social Disease" is about how I view the system at the ... forests, in Aboriginal rights β€” after all, just recently there has been a death in custody on Palm Island, ... being suicidal. "Civil Rights" is about trying to resolve things without wars, without ...

  8. An open letter to Jose Ramos Horta

    pressures on Indonesia and assistance to the most authoritarian layers of the Indonesian military; US and ... support for East Timor's oppressors. In England in the 1990s, four women who destroyed a jet bomber ... continuous reporting on East Timor with your column in 1991. Your two false statements regarding the West and ...

  9. Range of quality films for Mardi Gras

    night-time parade and party, is now a well-known event on the alternative calendar. Its arts program is ... and lesbians in the US military during World War II. It's an interesting film, and the material ... "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Despite an election promise to lift the ban on lesbians and ...

  10. Hanson, the left and the ex-left

    misrepresent the positions of much of the socialist left, rewrite the history of the anti-Vietnam War movement ... meeting in Dandenong on July 7 were "no doubt... among the adherents of Resistance, Militant, the ... been consciously used to de-politicise anti-Hanson sentiment and keep the lid on the huge potential for ...

  11. Syria, Yemen uprisings yield different Western responses

    while people are being murdered ― women, children, brave young men ― houses are being destroyed. It is ... just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian ... has cost thousands of lives. On February 21, when Yemen held presidential elections, Clinton released ...

  12. Gains in global marriage equality campaigns

    since the time of the women’s suffrage movement and the Vietnam anti-war movement. We have won these ... oppressive and proscriptive gender roles. It may be one that creates a world where women can dream of more ... its complexities, but the news for gay men and all women is better than it could have been. Obama will ...

  13. Workers to bear budget pain

    billion on war, the largest single expenditure item. It's rumoured the government will wind back some ... radio's AM on May 7 "of women who see specialist obstetricians β€” about 80% will be worse off". ... Graham Matthews The federal budget will be presented to parliament by Treasurer Wayne Swan on May ...

  14. Turkey: After failed coup, Erdoğan cracks down

    the Syrian Civil War. The theory has been fuelled by incongruities in the events on the night of the ... a group of military officers calling themselves the β€œPeace in the Country Council” on July 15, who ... launch one of his own was borne out by scenes on July 16 and following days. Mobs of Erdoğan's ...

  15. NSSP campaigns for peace in Sri Lanka

    NSSP campaigns for peace in Sri Lanka By Sujatha Fernandes On October 17, after peace talks had ... people from the LTTE β€” is run. For the last five years the government has imposed an economic blockade on ... dying of starvation on the streets, and the lack of hospital care and medicines has enabled disease to ...

  16. 'Our dream is live as human beings'

    government that took power in a military coup on June 30, 1989. Last year, Yousif fled to Australia as ... subsistence level only and most people have to work two jobs to survive. The war in Sudan's south impacts ... on all Sudanese, but especially young people. Conscription has been introduced and all students are ...

  17. Sport undermined by neoliberalism

    means inherent in sport, which is not about β€œthe law of the jungle” or a β€œwar of all against all”. On ... industry, legal and illegal. Betting on sports is estimated to be worth between $700 billion and $1 trillion ... the contrary, it's a competitive activity built on a cooperative basis, requiring mutual ...

  18. PALESTINE: World's longest running injustice

    place since the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war represents a slow death for the Palestinian people. I've ... acts with impunity Β— killing or arresting people or stealing more land, on a daily basis. We saw ... your pass. On May 28, Israeli soldiers opened fire on those waiting at the Qalandia checkpoint, ...

  19. Immigration: for an open-door policy

    By Iggy Kim Since prehistoric times, humanity has been on the move. Driven by material compulsion, ... way. With the rise of class society, migration took on an added dimension, as labouring classes were ... churned up in a new and contradictory phenomenon: on the one hand, new super-groupings of populations ...

  20. The population bunk

    of poor, he wrote in Essay on the Principle of Population, were bound to starve because England ... Malthus's book was a great success; in 1805 he went on to become the first tenured professor in a trendy new ... with the smooth functioning of the global economy. Worried that "the number of people on the Earth ...

  21. Venezuela: Chavez calls for global offensive for socialism

    won on the defensive. You can pass to the defence to win time, this is valid in military wars and ... political wars. But only on the offensive do you win the war, do you win the struggle. What is necessary is ... Hugo Chavez Caracas Having spoken for over two hours on the significance of the Venezuela's ...

  22. Letters to the Editor

    Anglican Church report from Hobart details frequent sexual assaults on young men and women by US service ... back to World War II β€” church and state as one? Shame on you NSW Labor Party. Shame on you Catholic ... '90s I agreed with Peter Garrett on a range of political and environmental issues, including protection ...

  23. 'They are afraid of you'

    The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally ... They've become a bad joke, to the point where Kevin Rudd, the opposition spokesman on foreign affairs, ... you should remember on this second anniversary of the brutal assault on Iraq is that you are not ...

  24. Why the US imperialists hate socialist Cuba

    murdered more than half a million Angolan men, women and children. In Cuito Cuanavale and on the Namibian ... Castro Ruz to a rally of 1 million people in Havana's Jose Marti Revolution Square on May 1, 2003.] ... today they have no choice but to watch in amazement the enhanced courage of this valiant people. On ...

  25. AFGHANISTAN: Taliban: Made by the USA

    1992, the warlords had soon turned on one another. The country was carved up into warring fiefdoms. ... BY NORM DIXON Since the appalling acts of mass murder in New York and Washington on September 11, ... rifles, tanks and artillery guns captured during its frequent wars against Arab states. By 1987, 65,000 ...

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