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  1. Venezuela: Uniting revolutionaries to end capitalism

    struggle should be based on "the largest possible number of men and women [involving] themselves in ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 24, speaking to more than 2000 promoters of the new socialist party ... pocket, but we have to enter into this issue, we cannot avoid it". On July 28, while attending ...

  2. Custodianship in the 21st Century

    on which all life depends. After witnessing about thirty wars, the impact of genocide in Cambodia, ... some public intellectuals and media voices, continue to wage a very damaging war on Aboriginal culture. ... contemplate many different views on recognition of the rights and rightful place of the First Peoples. Vincent ...

  3. With new referendum push, Scotland needs a radical Yes campaign

    Sturgeon that she would bring forward proposals for a second referendum on Scottish independence may prove ... as the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) and Women for Independence also stayed together, building ... networks and campaigning. New media such as CommonSpace and Bella Caledonia thrived on the left of the ...

  4. Letter from the US: Supreme Court overturns basic democratic rights

    passed by Congress, that violate democratic rights under the pretext of the β€œwar on terrorism.” The ... class over how far to use the β€œwar on terror” to violate the constitution. This split has nothing to do ... International, Global Rights, Global Fund for Women, Human rights Watch, PEN American Center, Service Employees ...

  5. After congress win, Podemos’s Iglesias promises β€˜return to the streets’

    (41.57% as against 39.12% for Errejon’s). However, just six weeks later, in the vote on the four congress ... Anti-capitalists-sponsored β€œPodemos in Motion”, whose highest result was 11.63%. However, the joint document on gender ... Podemos. The bulk of that grey matter is with me on the Recover The Dream ticket: at the same time an ...

  6. Repression and hypocrisy in Arab world

    Yemen hundreds of protesters have been killed. Yemen, however, is a β€œwar on terror” ally of the West. ... throughout the country as the US continues to wage its β€œwar on terror”. The April 26 Yemen Times reported ... Democracy Tony Iltis Sixty-two protesters had been killed by Syrian security forces on April 29, ...

  7. Sanctions needed against Burmese military

    on infrastructure projects continues. Millions of people, including women and up to 1 million ... genocide. Some 40-60% of the SPDC budget is spent on defence, although Burma is at war with no-one. In the ... Burmese embassy in Canberra on August 7 and 8. Recently, more than 100 activists were rounded up by the ...

  8. Jim Casey: 'We need to build the social movements'

    Radio on February 5. * * * Last week Anthony Albanese, who is the Labor MP for Grayndler, lambasted you ... industries. For example, unions such as the CFMEU mining division have a very good position on climate and ... a pretty good position on coal. But they will always suffer from the fact that, regardless of the ...

  9. North Queensland's hidden history

    defeated by October. Then in 1891, the pastoralists went on the offensive in Queensland, drawing up ... unions. Queensland shearer's rejected this on January 6, 1891, and the first great shearers' ... The high point of the struggle occurred on May 1, 1891, when 1500 armed strikers marched through the ...

  10. Free speech, political dissent and illegality

    "given" or "taken away" by those in authority. For instance, before the first World War, it had ... and initially won, but on appeal to the High Court, a majority of four to three ruled that ... illogical and irrational, and (b) an appallingly arbitrary infringement upon his right to free speech on ...

  11. IRAQ: Election result will fuel armed resistance

    for Victory in Iraq. While declaring that Iraq is "the central front in the war on terror", ... the country's electoral commission on January 20. The United Iraqi Alliance, the coalition of ... Shiite-dominated, Iraqi government. Reuters reported on December 15 that exit polls it conducted that day ...

  12. Anger at the first test

    Moruroa on September 6, anti-nuclear protesters around the world condemned the move and warned of the ... testing program until it has provided more information on safety measures. Anti-nuclear activists, more ... organisations was formed to conduct a united campaign against the tests. On September 1, a petition against the ...

  13. Israel's siege strangles Gaza

    military in March and April, as the Israeli government talked up the possibility of another war on Gaza. ... confirmed to Embassy officials on multiple occasions thatΒ  they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning ... part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed … on multiple ...

  14. Israel promises to continue brutal offensive against Palestinians

    Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah and Jenin on May 29. The public executions, which resulted in at least seven ... Israeli offensive against the Palestinian population began on May 16, more than 50 people died and more ... than 200 were injured in attacks by Israeli war planes and targeted assassinations. According to ...

  15. A Palestinian hero: George Habash β€” 1926-2008

    (PFLP), George Habash, died on January 26 from a heart attack, aged 81. Habash, popularly known as ... men, women and children died in the march, while others put the figure higher. Prior to the death ... regime began to crack down on political activists. In 1958, along with other former students of the ...

  16. KURDISTAN: The right to be in power

    the 120 participants at the May Day toast at the Granville Town Hall on May 6, jointly sponsored by ... unemployment, wars, bloodshed, displacement and absence of basic human rights? If not, why would people tolerate ... on. By all these, humanity is persuaded that even if salvation from the existing system is just and ...

  17. Murdoch's power exposed in McKnight book, but others let off hook

    and journalists” with direct edicts on how to report the war. The Murdoch media presented non-existent ... (especially on wars) or have restricted debate to narrow limits (especially on climate change). It is also the ... Murdoch. David McKnight reveals the extent of Murdoch’s influence on governments in Britain, US and ...

  18. MEXICO: Democracy faces its hardest test

    a spotlight on a growing crisis affecting more than 1 million workers β€” the right to form independent unions, ... and thereby raise wages, in 2000 foreign-owned factories, the maquiladoras. On June 11, hundreds of ... mostly women workers walked out of the Duro S.A. plant in Rio Bravo, just across the Rio Grande River ...

  19. Afghanistan: Taliban continue growing in strength

    war" against the PDPA "communists". According to the UN Office on Drugs and Control (UNDOC), ... occupation force has Afghanistan's Taliban-led anti-occupation insurgency "on the run", ... near the presidential palace in the centre of Kabul on April 27. Reuters reported that Hamid Karzai, ...

  20. Britain: People's Assembly, Left Unity makes steps to build fight back

    September there was a resolution that was overwhelmingly passed which calls on the TUC to look into the ... small ultra-left groups and has been generally frowned on as absurd. So the very fact that talk of ... a "legal" strike in Britain even if it is on questions of pay and conditions. So working toward coordinated ...

  21. Britain: Student leader says anti-fee campaign awakens students

    protest over Israel’s war on Gaza] put the tactic back on the political map. People who were involved in ... they spend the money they’re spending on war and bailing out the banks (to the tune of Β£1.3 trillion) ... Economy Education Tony Iltis Clare Solomon On November 10, tens of thousands of students marched ...

  22. Opposition HDP boycotts Turkish Parliament

    On November 4, Turkish authorities issued arrest warrants for all 59 MPs of the Kurdish-based ... Yüksekdağ, and several other MPs were taken into detention. On September 6, spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen read ... comprehensive and dark attack on democratic politics, our activities in parliament, and once again return ...

  23. Stronger left vote in NSW council elections

    against war, racism and capitalism; and building a stronger left in the trade unions and on the campuses ... prioritised leafleting suburbs, our supporters were helping lead a 7000-strong anti-war demonstration as part ... activity" β€” from building the International Women's Day rally and staffing university orientation week ...

  24. INDONESIA: When 'national unity' is no longer voluntary

    occurred without war. Of course, the territorial boundaries and basic economic structure β€” taxes, treasury, ... realised in 1949 that independence was inevitable, they insisted on a federal structure and tried to carry ... Sukarno's reply to Muslims who called for an Islamic state. He called on them to win majority support. ...

  25. Beattie heads to the polls

    Jim McIlroy, Brisbane A snap Queensland election is underway. On January 13, Labor Premier Peter ... ALP campaign was set back by the forced resignation of tourism minister Merri Rose on January 14, who ... released in the January 17 Brisbane Courier-Mail, which shows Labor's primary vote at 38%, down 5% on ...

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