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  1. Tough times for revolutionary Cuba

    against the US war on Iraq. Secondly, the economic crisis facing the Soviet Union has increased the US ... the island. This has forced Cuba to rely for the bulk of its trade on the Soviet Union. Cuban sugar ... under this arrangement. Now the US is increasing its pressure on Cuba. Any ship engaged in trade between ...

  2. Guns for sale

    government fighting rebels on the island of Bougainville. A report at the time said, "Men, women and ... status. The arguments for this easing were based on our need to increase export income. Australia's ... the United Nations special session on disarmament. He said that "arms exports should not be ...

  3. Bougainville denies claims of hostage taking

    campaign" following a series of military provocations over the past several weeks. These began on January ... Honiara, Martin Miriori, has received reports of troops harassing the local people, particularly women ... camps have been set up on Buka Island and parts of north Bougainville occupied by PNG troops, he said. ...

  4. Study finds youth are victims of violence

    violence". Low incomes, unemployment, inadequate social security payments and the resulting pressures on ... year-olds experienced physical violence. In the same survey 893 per thousand 16-19 year-old women ... experienced some form of sexual violence.??? Halstead also quotes a survey on children and violence that ...

  5. Bernie Sanders: 'The political revolution must continue'

    the rights of working people, for protecting women and LGBTI rights, for serious action on climate ... unions Stuart Munckton Bernie Sanders Speaking to his supporters in a live web video address on June 17, ... socialist senator has refused to drop out of the race, but acknowledged on June 22 that it did not appear ...

  6. VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul II, a reactionary in shepherd's clothing.

    city 50 kilometres from Cracow, Poland, on May 18, 1920. During the Nazi occupation he worked in ... came in from 1945 on", Johnston told ABC Radio National's Religion Report in 2004. "So ... been fulfilled." The closed world of Polish Catholicism under the heel of Cold War Stalinism was ...

  7. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Tuzla β€” the unknown workers' capital of Europe

    inspire so little interest and curiosity in the media and political class when, on the contrary, Ukraine ... is front-page news? Is it because its name evokes the war that, 20 years ago, claimed the lives of ... hundreds of thousands of men and women more than 200,000 dead and 600,000 exiles in the face of virtual ...

  8. Hip-hop activist shows rap's power to politicise

    growing up turned you on to politics. When I first heard a song called "Black and Proud" by ... one of the many historical figures who were name-dropped on various songs throughout the β€œGolden Era” ... BDizzleNY06. In the latest of your four books, "A Hip-Hop Activist Speaks Out on Political Issues", ...

  9. The struggle for Nepal

    UCPN-M. However, with the Maoists controlling 40% of the parliament, and anger expressed on the streets, ... finally ended in 2006, when the pressure of the Maoist "people's war" combined with urban ... since stalled. There are deep divisions between the political groups on the road forward. It was agreed ...

  10. The kind of journalism we need

    the atomic bomb was dropped. He was the first to report on the deadly effects of radiation poisoning ... and Iraq β€” five articles on the current situation in Iraq by various writers, including Felicity ... understand Pilger's desire to celebrate the "honourable exceptions", the "men and women ...

  11. Ozomatli: The sound of the United States' future

    of the great '70s Afro-Latin funk super-group War or the wild Latin rock of Carlos Santana will ... and jams were held there to support the struggle, including that of the Battered Women ... advocate revolution ("Coming War"). "Aqui No Sera" is an '80s solidarity song with ...

  12. Refugees of environmental disaster

    past and current wars in its impact on humanity". When our soils are no longer able to feed us, it ... like refugees of war, have witnessed their homelands being ravaged, and their only hope is to gather ... greenhouse effect. Millions of its 110 million people live on chars β€” bars of silt and sand in the delta. The ...

  13. ACEH: PRD activist: reconstruction, not carpetbagging!

    themselves to help with the relief effort. We formed CARE Aceh to concentrate on this work. We started off ... They are not areas that were hit by the tsunami; they are on higher ground. But they are areas which ... In some areas, women were mobilised to go to apply for aid as the only way to pressure the TNI to ...

  14. United States:: Right-wing attack as liberals retreat

    Malik Miah San Francisco The heat is on the administration of US President Barack Obama. An ... energised conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are ... Obama continues Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senior citizens are panicked by accusations ...

  15. Pacifying civil society

    neoliberal revolution has, naturally, been funded by right-wing philanthropists intent on neutralising ... forcefully argued in the US group INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence's 2007 book The Revolution ... Unfortunately, to date no researchers have critically examined the influence of liberal philanthropy on the ...

  16. UNITED STATES: The world's leading rogue state

    established in the region to fight Β“the war on terrorismΒ” what would be immediately striking is that it would ... Afghanistan, their record is beyond question. The killing on July 1 of more than 40 guests at a wedding was not ... countries was never in dispute Β— conditional, that is, on the absence of US ground troops and their ...

  17. Palestinian refugees: 50 years in 'temporary' camps

    crammed into one square kilometre on the southern outskirts of the city. While life in the camp was always ... are no longer refugees. On September 9, all Palestinian refugees working in UNWRA institutions in ... Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza went on strike to protest against these cuts. The taps in the camp ...

  18. Elections an opportunity to challenge racism, offer solutions

    and a unionist all her adult life. She has campaigned against war and racism and for refugees, women ... lives and they want to let you know their opinion on lots of different issues. Recently I was invited to ... told me they agreed with me. But one person thought I put too much emphasis on the rights of refugees ...

  19. Ecosocialism, Mumia and MOVE

    β€” on death row for more than 30 years in Pennsylvania for a murder he didn't commit β€” is an iconic ... to the US Social Forum on June 22 had a clear ecosocialist content. Referring to the BP oil spill in ... Hispanic. John Africa constructed a spirituality based on reverence for all life. MOVE was passionate about ...

  20. Denmark: Red-Green Alliance triples vote as right thrown out

    women prime minister-- not so much because of their own performance. Rather it was because of the ... despite economic stagnation and participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Libya, increased their ... campaigned strongly on the traditional SPP themes of defence and extension of the Danish welfare state. In ...

  21. Mark Steel: The real source of terror

    attack must be to "inflict a heavy death toll and heavy pain on the Gaza population". Replace ... any, wasting their money on gunboats and stuff. Given that their annual arms budget is US$7.2 billion, ... border. Luckily, these weapons are easy to spot. Most of them are next to women howling, "Look what ...

  22. Howard&#146s lying is systematic

    β€” a society deeply divided by class. Howard and Labor leader Mark Latham face a quandary. On the one hand, ... they are loyal to the interests of Australian capital (which they badge as the national interest). On ... "national interest" demands that Howard commits this country to war in Afghanistan and Iraq to maintain ...

  23. Cuban Consul's speech to Marxism 2000: 'A beautiful, extraordinary idea'

    idiosyncrasies, economic development, etc. Cuba has a long history of wars of independence, of colonial and ... of demonstrating their viability. The collapse will accelerate the anti-capitalist movement on ... on the global level. Precisely the inability of capitalism to resolve the most urgent problems of the ...

  24. 'Being in Labor is a matter of managing embarrassment'

    environment, women's rights and so on β€” within it. It has coopted some ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ of these movements, ... By Tracy Sorensen Hawke's maiden speech in parliament centred on unemployment. In March 1983, ... to tears during a televised discussion about its impact on young people. The official unemployment ...

  25. Poland's public enemy number one

    Solidarnosc treasurer for the Lower Silesian region, he took the initiative on the eve of the December 13, ... 1981, coup d'etat to withdraw union funds from the bank and use them to set up a war chest to ... a detailed report on union finances for the underground period at Solidarnosc's second congress in his ...

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