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Right-wing terror in Norway
has been energetically disseminated by the belligerents of the 'war on terror,' the view ... Breivik, dressed as a police officer, reportedly claimed he was on the island of Utoya, northwest of Oslo, ... Spencer's Jihad Watch," as Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald reported. To judge from his messages on ...
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Don't pay for a failed system
Iraq, the US has spent $3 trillion on the war alone. The $1.339 trillion annual global military ... Tony Iltis "Meltdown" is a word that one hears a lot on the news these days. Despite the ... various forms of state intervention in the finance industry on both sides of the Atlantic, sharemarkets ...
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Malaysia: Urgent appeal for jailed socialists
CRACKDOWN ON MALAYSIAN SOCIALISTS: 30 PSM ACTIVISTS CHARGED UNDER ABSURD SECTION 122 β WAGING WAR AGAINST ... in jail over planned pro-democracy protests in Malaysia on July 9. Altogether, the TheStar.com.my ... said on June 30 police arrested 101 people nation-wide in a preemptive move against the July ...
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German Greens look at Coalition
NATO area, something the US administration has pressured the Germans to do since the Gulf War. On ... (SPD). Volmer believes it is necessary to put pressure on the SPD now to decide whether it will go with ... necessary to set out on a new course. Since NeumΓΌnster, he says, it is has been tied down by internal ...
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BRITAIN: The quiet death of freedom
John Pilger On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just ... a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British ... House of Commons. As we talked, two women brought him a Christmas meal and mulled wine. They thanked ...
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Was Rupert taking the piss?
to socialismβ. He went on to say with a straight face: βWhat they wanted was simple: an Australia ... where men and women would rise in society not because they were born into privilege β but because they ... Liberal leader Tony Abbott, and other prominent conservatives. Murdoch went on, praising the IPA for its ...
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Palestine β strengthening the movement
Aaron Benedek Fred Fuentes Along with the sheer brutality and horror inflicted on Palestinians, ... atrocities, demanding that it cut ties with Israel. On December 27, acting prime minister, Julia Gillard, ... defended Israel's military onslaught, blaming it on Hamas "aggression". A week later, with ...
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Struggle, Resistance and the equal love campaign
resolutions against the Vietnam War, in support of the rights of minority groups around the world and in ... support of the women's liberation movement. In the 40 years since, Resistance has been part of social ... right to have "non gender specific" written on zie's birth certificate. This set ...
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Schools are getting scarier because the world is getting scarier
a schoolyard brawl during recess, year 9 student Jai Morcom was pronounced dead on August 30. A few days later, ... for peace and for Jai, and released balloons. On September 3, a group of between seven and 10 young ... teenage women drove into a school in Ipswich, Queensland. They allegedly carried knives and were hunting ...
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France: For the foundation of a new anti-capitalist party
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). In order to launch the debate on the perspective of a new anti-capitalist ... Injustice in the world has not decreased. Quite on the contrary, it continues to afflict billions of human ... destroys public services and social protection, causes wars and the plundering of the Third World, which ...
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New magazine to stir up the left
β co-author of Fragmented Futures, the acclaimed book on developments in working life in Australia β examines ... undeserving poor. Third Way advocates have seized on this distinction in their attack on welfare ... by increasing health. As part of its effort to provide useful background on the hot and complex ...
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Epic tale of a woman's courage
head to be shaved and her baby set adrift on the river and left to the mercy of the gods. But Tuy dies ... before finishing his story. Hien then goes on the road to learn the truth. In a visually striking ... leaves the troupe to go on with his search. He is told different stories about his mother's fate, ...
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Australia nightmare for asylum seekers
the men, women and children who come to the Refugee Claimants Centre. Instead of seeking asylum as ... when his money ran out and he faced sleeping on the street, he went into a police station and, subduing ... can apply to the Refugee Review Tribunal to review your case. Solicitors acting on behalf of asylum ...
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Burma's secret Karen genocide
endurance of a seemingly endless civil war. Daniel Pedersen is an Australian journalist who lives in the ... western Thailand border town of Mae Sot. On the other side of the Moei River (and the absurdly-named ... proceeds from these outings do not remain with the traders, but are passed on to officials who oversee the ...
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Philippine socialists unite in new party
These include the youth, urban poor, women, trade union and peasant sectors. A draft program, based on ... Huk war of rebellion against Japanese occupation during World War II. The LS comes from the Komiteng ... decided on SPP as the name for the new party, leading to a founding congress in May. An internal party ...
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The military solution
of their duty, amongst Olympic crowds. Allegedly the civilian-attired troops were on the lookout for ... acts of terrorism or disturbances of any kind. The operation was illegal on three counts: the federal ... inter-colonial maritime strike of 1890. The advice on crowd control by Colonel Tom Price to the Mounted Rifles in ...
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Racism kills β Rudd and Abbottβs anti-refugee hysteria
other men, women and children aboard a wooden fishing boat that had travelled from Sri Lanka and spent ... water for at least eight days before the refugees were finally rescued on May 9. But the Labor federal ... was βbeing trackedβ by Australian customs when it sent out a distress signal on April 30. No rescue ...
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Salute to Gail Lord (1952-2007)
on workers' and trade union issues, for women's rights, the rights of gays, on ... Margaret Gleeson We mourn our friend and comrade Gail, who lost her valiant battle with cancer on ... a life on the side of the poor and oppressed of the world. Gail was such an inspiration to others, with ...
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Ireland: 25 years of the Troubles
commented on the increased harassment of women by both the security forces and loyalist death squads. ... On October 5, 1968, a peaceful civil rights demonstration, declared illegal by the authorities, ... was brutally attacked by the Royal Ulster Constabulary and its 2000 participants clubbed down on the ...
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IRAQ: Washington invents al Qaeda 'link' with Hussein
resistance to a war on Iraq by "proving" that Saddam Hussein's and bin Laden may join forces. ... on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he ... weapons, and an active nuclear weapons program, Powell also dwelt at length on the "links" ...
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International solidarity campaign with Indonesian democracy activists begins
person from the War Resisters' International Women's Working Group. France The following are ... around the world on October 28, the International Day of Protest for Human Rights and Democracy in ... Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Pickets and speak-outs took place in Newcastle and Hobart on October 28, ...
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Resistance plans fight against Howard
Resistance plans fight against Howard By Marina Cameron "The capitalist system, based on ... a generation of young people whose living conditions and future are on the rocks." Lively discussions were ... political analysis of international and Australian politics, and set down some clear decisions on ...
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Beyond 'business-as-usual' unionism
and glamour on TV: this is the real United States. One of the Motor City's main thoroughfares, ... "nude". The few people on the streets are overwhelmingly black and latino, and universally poor. Detroit ... sense that they part of a movement." Labor Notes has published a range of invaluable books on ...
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The anatomy of PC
The anatomy of PC The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education ... campaigns in the United States to produce a fascinating and devastating exposΓ©. Drawing on his own ... invented anecdotes, became the mechanism by which conservatives continued their attack on the Left." ...
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BOLIVIA: From neoliberalism to a homeland for all
On January 22, Evo Morales β former trumpeter, llama herder and coca-grower union leader β became ... mandate of December 18, 2005, when Bolivians from the countryside and cities decided to turn the page on ... movements, business owners, the middle classes, indigenous peoples, intellectuals and women. We are dealing ...