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1. VIETNAM: 30 years after victory: Towards capitalism or socialism?

   denied US reparations. Then the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia launched a brutal three-year war ... Thailand armed the Khmer Rouge along the Thai border, while an embargo was imposed on Vietnam by the ... back, forced Vietnam to keep half a million troops on its northern border and double the size of its ...

2. Coming year 'crucial' for East Timor

   through a civil war and an invasion by Indonesia. He has been imprisoned by Fretilin and captured by the ... before we go for self-determination and independence." Civil war Despite their differences in ... the coup. Many people on both sides were killed in the fighting. Tavares was one of many UDT members ...

3. A planetary phenomenon and an earthly invasion

   visible from Earth on three other occasions – 1874, 1882 and 2004. Three is the same number of times that ... in 2007). Cook departed Plymouth on August 26, 26 being the number of times Aboriginal youths in NSW ... World condition which besets a First World country. Aboriginal people have the highest recorded rates on ...

4. The people who ended 'Jim Crow'

   Black Women's Political Council organised the fliers, Black preachers spread the word on the Sunday ... On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks — as she had done many times before — caught ... years I'd known on the buses in Montgomery." Her arrest, for she had broken a municipal ...

5. Letters to the Editor

   the interview in GLW #703 with Antony Loewenstein on the setting up of Independent Australian Jewish ... challenge the idea that the pro-Israel Jewish establishment represents all Jewish public opinion on Israel ... belief that an imperialist power could conquer and impose its will on the indigenous population and get ...

6. Forever changes

   Hard, Star Wars, The Omen, The Jetsons and eventually climaxes embarrassingly in a blind alley with ... earth women. This is the world according to Hugh Heffner where women are either: a) Giggling wiggling ... a twittering half-wit voice on the telephone. The villain, Zorg, is straight out of Batman, a Hitler/Jim Carrey ...

7. VIETNAM: The pauper among the 'tigers'?

   Development Program 1998 figures). This puts Vietnam on the level of Bangladesh (US$348) and Haiti (US$370). ... US$8137, US$5456, US$3555 and US$2651 respectively. Vietnam's PPP per capita GDP figure puts it on ... average life expectancy of 53 years and an infant mortality rate of 60 per 1000 births. Better On some ...

8. John Pilger: Support NT Indigenous fightback

   on that shame list. Even impoverished, war-ravaged Sri Lanka has beaten the disease. But not lucky ... until our government ends its war on Indigenous Australia, until it negotiates a treaty that gives back ... Teachers’ Federation on April 23. It was part of a public launch of the Four Days in July national ...

9. The 'Anzac Day terror plot' raises new threat of tyranny

   on April 18 to arrest five teenagers for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on Anzac Day. Two were ... held in custody and charged under “anti-terror” laws, one was charged on summons for weapons offences ... on my stomach, I got kicked in the head,” he told the ABC on April 20. “Then [a police officer] ...

10. IRAQ: US plans another Fallujah bloodbath

    Doug Lorimer US commanders have indicated they will launch an all-out assault on the rebel Iraqi ... assault, on October 26 the US military tightened its cordon around the city of 340,000 residents. The ... positions in empty buildings on the Sunni Muslim city's southern perimeter... Only one road leading ...

11. Land rights and solidarity needed to defeat racist attacks

    — women, migrants and the disabled — are following the same formula as its attacks on Aborigines. It's ... government's attacks on public sector workers, we are witnessing their devastating and racist attack on ... today? Why is the spending on infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water and council services ...

12. LEBANON: Behind the rise of Hezbollah: Two decades of Israeli occupation

    camps and south Lebanon towns and villages from 1968 on. In the March 7, 1975 New Times, US journalist ... River. Israel's 1982-2000 occupation On June 3, 1982, the Israeli ambassador in London was killed by ... the US rejected this. On September 3, Israeli forces advanced towards the Palestinian refugee camps of ...

13. Free speech, censorship and the left

    '99 over how to approach Pauline Hanson, some on the left arguing that we should demand "No free ... approaches proposed. One strand argues that we should call on the state to ban ideas detrimental to ... forcibly "shuts down" the meetings of its opponents. State censorship Calling on the state to ban ...

14. AFGHANISTAN: US military massacres villagers again

    the BBC on July 1 that between 100 and 150 people were killed, and more than 200 wounded. Some of the ... wounded were taken on a rugged nine-hour road trip to the nearest hospital in Kandahar. Most of those ... civilians, women and children.” US officials scrambled to deny responsibility for the atrocity, issuing ...

15. Steaming along the tracks of revolution

    based on Fedor ('Artem') Sergeyev, a Bolshevik who escaped from exile in Siberia after the ... provocateur, and the Queensland police) try to stitch him up on a murder charge. His beatings in Boggo Road ... escaped class warfare. Neither, notes a fiercely anti-war Samsurov, has the existence of a national Labor ...

16. OUR COMMON CAUSE: Socialists, Greens and the ALP

    been the main benefactors of this opening. Insofar as the Greens have contested recent elections on an ... resistance to federal and state governments' attacks on the working class and oppressed. In particular, ... time, the Socialist Alliance reaffirms our long-term commitment to building the anti-war movement, and ...

17. PALESTINE: The immortal heroes of Jenin

    heroism. The second will surely prevail. Nations are built on myths. I was raised on the myths of Massada ... fire-power and body-counts, will not understand this. But Napoleon, a military genius, said that in war ... quarter. How does Sharon's war look in this perspective? As for the actual forces, the balance is ...

18. West Papua: the obliteration of a people

    silted over from erosion upstream, the trees on both sides are either dead or dying. The landscape on ... been waging a small-scale guerilla war in West Papua since 1965, when, after enough harassment from ... supply of Dutch weapons and explosives left over from World War II. Since then, the OPM, aside from the ...

19. How Trump won and the struggle ahead

    Organisation (ISO) released the statement below on November 11. It is slightly abridged from Socialist Worker, ... to stoke racism, xenophobia and reaction. Trump’s electoral success on a platform of criminalising ... contempt for women, his history as a sexual predator and his vow to severely restrict abortion will boost ...

20. EAST ASIA: Anti-Japan protests sweep China and South Korea

    war. On March 3 this year, Japan's foreign minister Nobutaka Machimura took the extraordinary act ... protests in China around May 4. On that day in 1919, there was a mass wave of student-led protest against ... left a profound legacy on China's subsequent anti-imperialist struggle. Japan colonised Korea in ...

21. John Pilger: Injustice, resistance rising in India

    environmentalist Vandana Shiva, “the government has declared war on its own people”. Using colonial-era laws, ... and economic justice. Widespread violence against women is only now precariously on a political ... Feminism Economy Democracy John Pilger In five-star hotels on Mumbai's seafront, children of ...

22. Nepal: Elite revolt threatens democracy

    is the moves, begun on April 19, by the Maoist-led coalition government to remove the Chief of Army ... despite constant media attacks on the government and its current inability to implement most of its ... People's Rights Forum. The popular uprising and a Maoist-led "people's war" brought down ...

23. The fight for football: Is the ’world game’ the people’s game?

    on June 26. it came amid the unrelenting drone of vuvuzela horns, the knockout of big teams such as ... spent on the corporatised event. Meanwhile, South Africa’s poor suffer substandard housing and access to ... around the world and watched by hundreds of millions more. But is it truly the “people’s game”? On its ...

24. West Papuans resist 'ethnic cleansing'

    was set on fire. This was done after the girls and women were pack-raped while the rest of the ... coast. Hundred were killed. In the north, on the island of Biak, 30 people in the village of Adadikam ... villages were forced to watch. One of the young women, Angelina Bonsapia, was eight months pregnant. Her ...

25. What if Tony Abbott spoke the truth?

    7.30: Liar, liar, pants on fire! If you need a good example of a person with a chronic disposition to ... decision to put the Olympic Dam project on hold was partly due to the federal government’s new taxes? TONY ... investment on hold because of the state of the world capitalist economy, which is in severe crisis. It is in ...

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