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1. Iran: Rouhani win brings hope for change

   Maryam Khazaeli Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated as the president of Iran on August 4. He was ... is not an outsider to the system. Rouhani was on Iran's nuclear negotiating team and was the ... country's top negotiator with the European Union on Iran's nuclear program from 2003 to 2009. He ...

2. Why we should put mining in public hands

   has been built on a systematic fraud. Putting aside for a moment the devastating environmental costs, ... women has also increased. As inequality has grown, the response of the wealthiest has been to push ... invest and build. There's no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those ...

3. Bougainville, mercenaries swung PNG elections

   war on Bougainville dominated the campaign. Chan, who had stood down pending an official inquiry into ... elite that they are fed up with corruption and rampant self-serving. At the return of writs on July 15, ... priest Father Robert Lak. Giheno lost to a village farmer. Two women were elected — the first in 15 ...

4. Rapper Lucky Luke digs up truth in Mount Isa

   for men and 9.5 years for women. On "Hey Dad", Lucky Luke raps about the death of his ... it is a 'lifestyle choice', but because we are connected with this land." On March 10, ... subsidise the "lifestyle choices" of Aboriginal people to remain on their tribal homelands. Yet ...

5. Russia's Communist Youth: where to now?

   themselves out of their predicaments on their own. This is the line that gets propagandised. Question: The ... Komsomol is one of the largest political youth organisations in the country. But young people on the whole ... are depoliticised. How do you attract people? "Head on" politicisation doesn't work and ...

6. Scotland: 'Defeat bears the seeds of victory'

   campaign unfolded. The rate of participation was huge. No less than 97% of potential voters registered on ... strongholds of the SNP since the 1970s, with more mixed populations, all voted no. A survey released on ... war, for social justice and redistribution of wealth. Fear campaign The corresponding figures for No ...

7. Trotsky's legacy for politics today

   Sixty years ago, on August 20, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was killed by an agent of ... chief collaborators were pro-capitalist imperialist agents. (To add to the irony, many of the figures on ... resume them after the war. This dramatic upheaval is one of the clearest indications that Stalinism ...

8. CUBA: Castro defends crackdown against US provocations

   and the economic war on our people, aimed at disrupting internal order, destabilising the country and ... BY DOUG LORIMER Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡Revolution Square on May ... Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style attack on the island. Castro noted that on April ...

9. New Greens mayor's goal is to 'build community confidence'

   first Greens mayor. Tom Flanagan interviewed mayor-elect Jan Barham for �鶹ӳ�� Weekly on April 17. ... How long have you been on council and how did you get involved in politics? I've been on council ... meant we then had four Greens on council. After the recent election we again have four Greens and three ...

10. MUA militancy: A major victory

    took against the war on Iraq was the right thing to do. "Unions have got to have a social ... — like the rights of refugees, the war, International Women's Day or Medicare — to the attention of ... a try, because they are sick of the same tired out officials who say we've got to rely on the Labor ...

11. How German workers' movement nearly won, then lost, the revolution

    their own words. In November 1918, during the final days of World War I, a worker-led uprising ... However, leaders of the largest workers’ party, the SPD, feared a social revolution. They called on the ... the victory of counter-revolution. Fowkes’s book focuses on the efforts of workers’ parties to resist ...

12. Big growth of left party in Senegal

    popularising of alternative ways of managing the elected structures, a strategy based on the satisfaction of ... there's a guerilla war, our party in fact won the elections but the PS denied it. Our party refuses to be ... concept of citizenship based on dignity, social justice, solidarity and socialist pan-Africanism. Now the ...

13. John Pilger: We can win a peaceful world!

    John Pilger Let us be clear on the facts of what happened one year ago on March 20. The United ... merely stated the obvious — that by joining the attack on Iraq, the Australian government has all but ... Blair and Howard." Take just one speech by John Howard on February 4 last year. In less than an ...

14. Challenges of a US labour lawyer

    Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back By Thomas Geoghegan ... leadership. Passions ran high in Chicago. Many careers, and bloated salaries, were on the line. A militant was ... shot dead and others were assaulted. Goons put frighteners on potential rank-and-file observers. ...

15. CUBA: A people who have triumphed

    Havana on July 26, the 48th anniversary of Fidel Castro's assault on the Moncada Barracks, the first ... technological power to impose the interests of its increasingly vast transnational corporations on the entire ... a time when a real possibility had emerged for an end to the arms race, after many decades of Cold War ...

16. IRAN: US steps up campaign for 'regime change'

    BY DOUG LORIMER On June 16, the governing board of the UN's International Atomic Energy ... Agency (IAEA) began discussing a report on Iran's nuclear program from the agency's ... with information on Iran's 1991 importation of 1.8 tonnes of natural uranium. The Iranian ...

17. Hillsborough — vindication in the face of class hatred

    Thatcher began with the vigour of men and women on the same mission to purify working-class people with ... dereliction of duty by South Yorkshire Police on the day all led directly to one of the world's worst ... It sparked a huge boycott of the paper in Liverpool, which still has a strong impact 27 years on ...

18. UZBEKISTAN: Bombings in a desperate state

    Rupen Savoulien A series of bombings and shootings on March 29 left at least 19 people dead and ... at night on March 28 near one of President Islam Karimov's residences. Uzbek authorities ... prosecutor-general's office on April 2 provided official casualty figures: 14 civilians, including three children, and ...

19. Newcastle Seven: ‘They leave the devastation behind’

    Newcastle on January 31, a major battle in the war on climate change began. A court is a theatrical space ... the war on climate change? Not until March 3. When will that coffee invitation turn into a working ... seven men and women from climate action group Rising Tide — dubbed the Rising Tide Seven. Posing as ...

20. Koru Peter Nusa, 1963-2007

    function room of the Lanyon Valley Rugby Union Club in Canberra on June 13 to celebrate the life of Koru ... Peter Nusa, who died suddenly at home on June 4. At the same time, family and friends gathered for ... a service in Papua New Guinea. Koru Peter Nusa, of the Gorgi Gabi clan, was born on September 18, 1963, in ...

21. Running, running, running

    minute, when the sounds and images of the war with Iraq threatened to intrude on to the frame. In the ... I can intervene in a lot ot things. Even a director who has no experience with women can direct a great ... and, of course, his legs, Majid Nirumand demands attention in every scene. I first saw The Runner on ...

22. Obama betrays immigrants — again

    States President Barack Obama pledged on June 30 that in the face of Republican intransigence on ... On September 6, the White House announced that it would delay any action until after the November ... vague on the specifics, but this promise did raise hopes. Leaders of several immigrant groups said their ...

23. Scotland: Despite fear campaign 45% vote for independence

    been hit hardest by Tory austerity and benefit cuts. Thousands rely on food banks for survival. Tales ... circulate of families opening tins of beans on the spot and eating them cold, with their hands due to ... Party (SNP) manifesto, they were not focused on historical or ethnic questions. They were focused on ...

24. East Timor will be free!

    External Delegation and guest speaker at the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, on recent developments in ... view, the Indonesian regime is concentrating a great deal on preventing any military uprising or ... have become weaker because of their incapacity and incapability to win the guerilla war and beat the ...

25. NEPAL: Anti-monarchy struggle at a crossroads

    mass protests and strikes despite shot-to-kill military curfews, on April 24 Nepal's King ... Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah announced on national television that he would reconvene the parliament elected in ... rural-based guerrilla war since 1996 and is estimated to control about 80% of the landlocked Himalayan ...

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